The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-11-10

TRUTH DIDN'T PROFIT MAN W ma
DEFENDED THEM.

ana was NeWAfUeus nut MOI inc NeheH
Of plain Facts-The Real Reason why
Bears Have OlI I'm IheIr PAws stated.
LACKAwAxEN, Pa, Nov. 0.-"Seems that
1t pays better to ny in tho face o. PrOvi-
dence, artor all, as fur a. Uncle Jase is con-
cerned, than il is 10 not TO-" remarked the
man from the Knob country. FAN that them
a. wouldn't think o. dOin' Of II amt always
thomas gifts their reward handed out on
this mundane spear.
I'm jedgin' o. this here Twin fact from
what come Of Uncle Jase's amazin' recO-
membrance o. the battered tin tobacker
boz that he unfOlded TO the Teller from the
city t'Other day, tellin' him how iC had
been swallered by a year that found il In
a stump the bear was robbin' o. wild honey,
where the boz had been hid by a Teller who
suspiOiOned that IL had somethin' i'm it that
he could bide his time an git mp a ~all-thump-
in good decker with, an how this Teller
killed the bear, not KNOWN IL had swallered
the Obacker box, an the bear bein' thin an
scrawny, him an the prosecutor Of a poor
Lprn wilder woman made the widder a
present Of it as a joke on her. the wilder
hndin' the t0backer box inside the bear
when SHE cut 1t up, which it was a lucky
find fer her, al the box had in it a will that
left her every ding bit o. the property her
prosecutor had, he havin' got il under a will
that want no good.
-Mebbe you mind me tellin' you about
this recomembranCe Of Uncle J8se's, an
how, when we told the astouDded city Teller
that the tObacker box was one that Simon
had throwed away that day, an the boys
had been usin' it as a pistol target, which
had battered IL so, instead Of It's bein' all
dented up by the bears teeth, AZ Uncle
Jase told him 1t had, he started up the road
arter Jason, an that ! hadn't heerd whether
ne ketched up with Uncle Jase or not, but
that II he had I'd bet "A little somethin'
that Jason had few in the face o. PrOvi-
dence wunst too often, fer the city Teller
had fire in his eye? Mebb you mind my
tellin' you Of il?
We'll. I've heerd senoe that he ketched
zap with Uncle Jase. He ketched him
fore he had zone half a miled An did
It 20 hard with Jason fer hyin' in the face
q Providence that way about the tin
tObacker box? Jest listen. an see how the
wicked fiourishes, while the upright sets
o WHITTIER threats a-parChin'. The
city Teller ketched up with Jason. sure
enough, an he says:
Hold ont he says to Jass. Come back
to the tavern, he says. an ave somethin'
on met
An he fetched Jase back TO the tavern,
an | n ear that the way he did sock things
into hi M was a sin an "A shame an me
t-Settln over 10 NlknOn = STORE, pOnOefln
with sorrow on the way that Uncle Jase
had mebbe done IL wunst too often an not
even a drop o cider in Simon's pitcher!"
The man from the Knob country was
plainly moved deeply by these edifying
moral reflections.
AN thensee Furder!' said he by and by.
II was settin' in at SimOn's store only two
or three days srter I'D heerd how dis
appintin' IL was to he amongst them as
folders in the ways o. the pillars o. truth
an fhAIn fhuf MINI nrRtnL ~ EapnnnATOlnnrtn
an thinkin' up things instead OF bein'
amOngst the Uncle Jases that flies in the
face o Providence. an who should he there
but this Teller from the city ag'in. an Ellis
Sam was sayin' that IL was q pesky shame
the way bea ~ had been stealth sheep
back in the Knob country. TIT city Teller
says yes. he'd heerd SO too. an he didn't
know bears was setch sheep srealers.
Neither he they says |. Not Knob
country bears, anyhow, says, an any
one that says they'm stealth sheep don
know what they'm talkin' about" | says.
Uncle Jasa wa'n't there, or | s'pose
he'd "A flew ia the face q Providence gin
with sOmethin' OF other about what bears
a do an what they wouldn't do, but Els
Sam he looked up sort q s'prised when ]
says that them bears wasn't stealln' sheep.
an he says he didn't know what I called it.
then, but o COurse II | said so there couldn't
be no doubt about it.
You're right on that pint says Simon
Ia Hi,s sam, an the city Teller says he
was glad 10 hear i.
No l says. Them bear rs amt stealth
them sheep AT all. They'm only takin'
Jest what they've got a right TO- | says.
an then | told EN- why.
How did the first sheep git into the
Knob country says. Bears That's
how! When the first settlers sot down
in the Knob country they didn't have a
sheep with EN-. AFTER they got things to
runnin' poorly toler'ble they fOund that
they needed sheep the wust way. Bears
was plenty enough. but folks couldn'
shear o often bears. No what was the
goin' to do bout il?
But one day one o. them settlers went
out to do his chores early in the mornin'.
an he aees two slsmmin' hig hears skitin'
away from his clearn' as fast as they could
go. He didn't think n0thih' o. that, o.
course, but when he looked around an see
"a pair o nice sheep in his yard he most
dropped dead. As soon as he could git
breath enough he shouted fer Joy:
-They'm like nanny in the wilder
ness was TO the Children OF Isr'el, time
they was lost in the woods, says he. IAN
yit," says he, lit don't seem, neither. as il
they could a rained down! They must
be a miracle, though" says he. AN it's
a mighty good thing come out here jest
"a had EN-, an I'd never knowed it,"
says he joyful.
But arter while it got around that
another settler had gone out early. in the
Il mOEnn 10 40 nus CnOTeb an n40 IOunu n
pair o. sheep in his yard an see two slam
min big bears skitin' away. An the re-
turns KEEP comm in that this, that an
t'other settler had FOUND a pair o. sheep
in his yard an seen two slammin' big bears
I gittin' away from there. An what did it
all mean, anyway?
well. they 500 figgered- II out what il
all meant. It meant that bears had gone
sOme'rs an brought them sheep back with
EN-. l don't know where they got EN-,
| hVNf tho hnaEa LUnuuAd ThnUn haawa 10000
sheep themselves. an they see a way out
o. skirmishin' all over the country IOokin'
up mutton. which they had been dom,
and that way was to bring in a few pair
o. sheep an plant the Knob country with
EN-. an they Jest vent an'dOne tan that's
what they was dom.
We'll, what them Why them bears
that's back in the Knoll country to-day is
the posterity o. the bears that planted
them sheep there. an the sheep that's there
now is all OWN to that plantin'. SO them
bears has got a right TO help themselves to
mutton in the Knob country, fer it's only
leVyin' on their own; an folks that saws
they'm stealth don't know what they'm
talkin' about. that's ALL
That's what | told EN- 30 az TO set them
Knob country bears right. an Els Sam
an Simon says they was glad to hear IL.
an they'd never throw IL up to them bears
ag'in that they was sheep thiefs.
NO. sirl | says. havin' some more Twin
facts about them Knob country bears.
Folks that says them bears is sheep stealth
don't knOw they'm talkin' about. no
more than they know what the oil In a
bears foot il feri If you'd ask setch folks