CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1906-10-18
HANKS
GRIZZLY
By Harry IRVING GREENE
(Copyright.)

Hank, the guide, peeped into the cof-
fee pot and then sat down on log to
await the boiling.
The queerest reptyle ever / met" he
said, was up in Utah. Drifted into
Whisky 1ke's parlor one evenin', and
feelin' pretty good, shot few holes
through the ceilin, not meann' no harm.
Bimeby down comes little feller with
nothin' on but his pants, shirt and
spectickles and looks me over He was
2 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 bureau so
their legs can't grow"
"pachshundS."
"Yes, reckon tleIn's 1t. 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,
It Is very annoyin', and if you do SO
any more l will be compelled to take
the law into my own hands
"How SOP ] asks. curious enough.
Well, he goes down in his pocket and
somethin', and finally digs up little
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size OF cigarette and holds it out in
dead rat by the tail I shall shoot back,
says he, frownin',
"For minnut was knocked speech
less, then l come to slowly. OF all the
sawed-off, hammered-down, nail-btin'
death-bfeathin', roarin', tearin' bulies
ever / seen. Won are the wust.' | saws. and
turns away But the next mornin'. as
/ was settin' speculatin' ON tbe here
after. no comes this same little banty
and hires me TO take him into The hills.
Come to find ont he was n bupqist one
of them felIers that is always stickin'
their noses into the private business of
toads and rentvles TO 6nd ont what
thew are do;n' when they are home and
in the buzz,,ms Of their families Well
wa or,6tted in n NAV that would male
pals dinin'-car look like a lunch
counter and struck out, and immediate
that feller commenced to get busy.
Every time he would see damned bug
a-crawlin' along the trail he wanted TO
get off his cayuse and foller hirn home,
Durndest fool,
"About a wcek afterwards T seen that
I'VE had ;ur,ned The claim of an old
grizzly First I noticed where he had
wallered and then rubbed in against a
ramnike and sIashed II with his claws
-sett;n' his TRADEMARK IN h and staLjp'
o,t his claim IN that ranqe I ,Iidn't say
nothin' but ar last the dude seen II him
self. and blame ms If he didn't know
what II mean,-never WAS 90 surnrised
in INV life He GOT Interested at once.
buzzin' around here and there like a fly
nm !, free lunch Said he wanted 70
take a nict,r Of him with the little box
he had hacked on his hack. wanted to
fo1,er hin, IN and tale his fotvpraf at
clus range told him nothin' would
make me more HAMMER, that / dearly
loved 70 set down beside a grizzly and
swan news with h;n-kind ~ lad OF
rnine-but that I ALWAYS waited until a
circus come along before cratifyin' my
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