Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-10-04

| the trail, and / reckon he would have
run plumb into fothers mouth and dis
appeared forevermore if hadn't ketched
him by the part that was handiest and
yanked him back. There's your blame
cfipmunk,' says |. Amt he just lovely?'
Magnificent. The Ursus horribilus
in his native wild. What a pictur to
show DR.. Dodo down eastp says the
perfesser. He uncinched his camery and
commenced to sneak up closer, sayin'
soothin' like, SO bear, good bear as he
preceded. Pretty quick old Eph skinned
his lip and commenced to cuss and rum
bic down in his insides, and / let out a
holler: Better take your fotygraf and
back water strong, cause there's goin'
to be strange doin's almost immediate,
mister | sings; and | hadn't got the
words out of my mouth before he gives
'woof and comes for us like steam
enjine. ] had been expectin' the same
all along, and the good Lord had caused
me to stop under limb that ] could
just jump up and grab handy; so up /
goes, and no sooner had / got on the
grandstand than the procession passed
along.
First came the perfesser, and it was
amazin' to gaze upon the way that stub
legged dude could stampede when he
once got interested Under the limb he
went so fast that could hear him whiz,
his legs goin' like the drive wheels of a
locomotive on a slippery track. And as
he went he was sayin' to himself, Run,
you little fool. Now you've done it,
amt you, dang your like he was sort Of
fndin' fault with himself for somethin'
Il yanked out my IA army as the bear
came snortin' by and let him have a
couple in the shoulder He went heels
over appetite, but was up in a second
and fairly Dustin his suspenders to make
up for lost time. Not havin' anything
pertickler to do, | dropped down and
trailed along after them, thinkin' if /
could grab the bear by the tail mebby
| could hold him back couple of min
utes, by which time | fggered the per-
fesser would be back in Boston. But,
though / straddled along uncommon ac-
tive. SEEM as how have got a SPAWN
and couple of ringbones, soon seen
| was like mud turtle a-chasn' a rab-
bit Then I remembered when | was a
kid at school heard the teacher say
that the hypothermoose of something
was the shortest distance between two
p'ints, and, bearin' that in mind, cut
across lots, fgurin' on headin them of.
well, ] made il and arrove first in a
clus finish. The little man was still goin'
as fast as former, putin and BLOWN
most tremendous. When he seen me a
look of genooine JOY perched on his fea-
lures, and he changed his course and
come a-salin' by within two feet, disap
pearin' with a whistlin' sound But at
the same time the grizzly s;ie-stepped,
too, and come straight for me, ears laid
back, mouth open, breatnin' fire.
"Some felleys would have got right
down on their Blenders and prayed but
| only girded up my loins, and sayin'
| deliver us from evil right earnest,
| hoped over tree trunk and skedad-
| died down the hill somethin' wonderful
| Next mint hears somethin go pop
and takes peep oyC- my shoulder, and
what do you suppose | seen1 Nothin'
but old Eph stretched out deader'n a
herrin' and the little runt of perfesser
settn' a-straddle of him and examinin'
his jaws. 'Genooine silver-tip grizzly
he says, when | come up. 'Pufick spcci-
men, Then he looks up at me and says,
Where was you goin'P
"'Nowhere mrch,' says /; Just trav-
elm around and admirin' the scenery
Must have seen a lot, considerin' the
time you was travclin,' he answers, with
a funny grin.
eyes, quite chunk. How did you
do III? asks, full of wonder.
"'Oh, just got behind tree and
shot him in the eye with my weppin
as he come along. Seep He pinted at
the bears eye with his bean shooter, and
you can skin me and hang my pelt on
the cabin wall II he hadn't done it slick
and clean; somethin' no mortil man ever
done before or since with such WEEP
pin and bear goin' at full jump.
couldn't say word, couldn't even cuss
--showin' how bad | felt. / just set
down on a log and weeped
"But that wasn't the worst of it. That
night he developed his pictur and the
next day showed il TO me- It was the
most hair-raisin' fotygraf of a grizzly
: a-comn' head on that was ever took by
human bein'. That will tickle DR..
) Dodo most to DEATH says the little bear
killer.
"Pardner,' says |, holdin' out my
! hand, i hired out TO you as guide, but
can't earn the money. Hereafter
viii cook for you and wash your feet,
hut you are the guide, bear-hghter,
broneo-buster and roarin' bully of this
outfit. When so back to town | am
goin' to quit guidin' and learn fancy
SEWN"
Hank stirred up the pot with pine
stick. "Pull up your rockin' cheers, fell
lers. Coffee's bilin,.s