Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-10-04
HANK
GRIZZLY
BY HARRY IRVING GREENE.
(Copyright.)

LAIN, TIC Buluc, peepeQ into the cot
fee pot and then sat down on log t.
await the boiling.
The queerest reptyle ever I met" h
said, was up in Utah. Drifted into
Whisky Ike's parlor one evenin', anC
feelin' pretty good, shot few hole:
through the ceilin, not meanin' no harm
Bimeby down comes little Teller with
nothin' on but his pants, shirt and
spectickles and looks me over He was
a funny lookin' critter. cock-eyed, long
body and short legs, like one of them
what do you call them dogs, Clawed
what they bring up under a bureau SO
their legs can't grown"
'Dachshunds."
Eyes, | reckon them's il. His legs
was so short that when he stood up his
feet just touched the floor and that's all
PRETTY soon he says, i must insist that
you cease shootin' through my bedroom
II IS very annoyin', and if you do Sc
any more will be compelled to take
the law into my own hands
"How SOP / asks. curious enough
Well, he goes down in his pocket and
fishes around for spell like he had lost
somethin', and finally digs up little
peewee, prtty shootin' weppin about the
size of q cigarette and holds it out in
front of him like a woman h'ists up a
dead rat by the tail 4 shall shoot back
says he, frownin'.
For a minnut / was knocked speech
less, then ! come to slowly. OF all the
sawed-off, hammered down, nail-bitin
death-breathin', roarin', tearin' bulies
ever seen, you are the wust,' says, and
turns away But the next mornin', as
] was settin' speculatin' on the here
after, up comes this same little banty
and hires me to take him into the bills.
Come to find out he was buggist, one
of them fellers that is always stickin'
their noses into the private business OF
toads and reptiles to find out what
they are doin' when they are home and
in the buzzums of their families. Well,
we QUILTED in a way that woald make
a pals dinin'-car look like lunch
counter and struck out, and immediate
that Teller commenced to get busy
Every time he would see a damned bug
a-craa!iu' along the trail he wanted to
get off his cayuse and foller him home.
Durndest fool.
About week afterwards | seen that
we had jumped the claim of an old
grizzly. First / noticed where he had
wallered and then rubbed up against a
rampike and slashed it with his claws
--settin' his trademark on it and stakin'
out his claim TO that range didn't say
nothin', but at last the dude seen it him
self, and blame me il he didn't know
what it meant--never was so surprised
in my life. He got interested at once
buzzin' around here and there like fy
on free lunch. Said he wanted tc
take pictur Of him with the little box
he had packed on his back, wanted tc
foller him up and take lis fotygraf al
clus range. | told him nothin' woult
make me more happier; that / dearly
loved to set down beside a grizzly anC
swap news with him--kind OF a fad O
mine--but that | always waited until
circus come along before eratifyin' m,
hankerin'.
"'Oh, sugar! They won't hurt YOU,
he answered. Don't be afraid. | hav,
read all about bears in books, and the,
amt dangerous
That's all right, too, but suppose h
happens to be a gum chime bearr
asked.
"a whatl' says he.
"A gum chune bear. Never hear,
of one? ] am surprised that you didn'
read about them in your Biography,
gum chune bear is grouchy old bach
or maybe a dissipinted old maid. .wha
gifts down on sassiety and longs to wip
II out. He noses around until he get
a big wad OF spruce gum and he ehaw
on that day after day to strengthen hi
Jaws. When he gets so he can chaw
crow-bar off first shot out of the Dos
then he goes a-wooin' trouble. Bette
so little careful with this bear, pard
he might be gum chune
well. instead of scarin' the littl
skeeter, that only made him more ann
ious to spy the brute. I should dearl
love Ter see 4 gum ehune that | migi
inspect his maxillaries,' says he, whai
ever them might be. | didn't say n
more. but | thought IL little, hal
growed son OF a mierobe like him da,
stay in the same country with a grizzl
full-growed man like yer Uncle Han
ought not to be afraid to walk up I
one and pull his whiskers out. Wei
we camped there, and. sure enough,
couple of days after | run into ii
tracks again. smckin' hot. so / hof
back right lively to camp
THE buggist was backed up against
tree with pair of binders on. Said h
was examinin the hairs on the legs {
skeeter 70 see what tribe he belonge
to. but when ! told him ] had rounde
up his game he dropped the inseck sue
den. Where is hep asks the little mar
"'About half mile up the gully yor
der. Better straddle along right pear
because didn't tic him none too fast
says |.
Certain: TO be sure. Had | be,
take my weppinF he says
"'As you please says |. But
wouldn't advise you to peck at him over
much with it. II you ever hit por
bear with that piece of ordinance, Their
wouldn't be enough left of him to picl
up on the pint Of pin and examiu
through that maggifyin' machine o