The sun., 1908-04-05
BEARS COT THE TIP 70 MOVE
50 SULLIVAN COUNTY ANGLERS
NEEDN'T CARRY Guns
And Don't Have 10 Divide the Trout They
catch sheep PeltlnE Also Is LOOkins
UpBut Did Pennsylvania Understand
Hear Nature When n Made This Law?


catch sheep PeltlnE Also Il Looking
Up-But Did Pennsylvania Understand
Hear Nature When II Made This Iaw'
There was plenty Of room in the smok-
Ing car said John Gilbert the travelling
| grOceyman, but the round shouldered
man in a high hat and brown and yellow
| plaid bobtailed coat, who got aboard the
train up in Sullivan county, phinked him
self down In the seat facing me, nodded to
me az pleasantly and famillaTly a. II he
and l had been talking over the state OF
the country and the price Of eggs every
night at the village grocery for ten years
or more, and said;
'The reason I've got my Sunday
60 70 meetin' clothes on Is, it's court
term down 70 the county seat and been
| s'peenied as a witness on a case down there.
S'peenies amt no respeoters Of persons,
and they don't care q continental where
they ysnk feller to.
Last summer one Of 'em drug me clean
up into Delaware county and kept me there
till missed all the good huckleberryin'
And juries amt a mite more considerate
than speenies IL.
Last fall got ketohed on a jury here
in Sullivan and ! sot on II all through the
deer huntin' and missed that. Then sum
monses. What do they care for a feller
either?
"'Only this winter past was summonsed
over beyond shinhopple, and before they
got done with me and could fix things 80
as could get back again the best pickerel
fishin through the ice was over and l
missed that. And now here amt much
more than got over that disappointment
when somehow they calculate that know
a whole lot about this case been s'peenied
on down to the county seat and they're
yankin' me all the way down there to see
! II | do, right on the eve Of the openin' Of
the trout season, and II miss that too
want TO tell you that me and the law h
bound TO have words Are you buying
sheep peltsY
Il said wasn't
Il thought II you was, said the sooiable
passenger, / could give you a tip that
sheep peltn' is bound TO look up again
this year in Sullivan county, It's been
fat az a pancake for more than a coOn's
age. OWN 20 the bears getherin the sheep
crop about as fast as it could be riz, but
the beans is moyin' out and sheep peltin'
is bound to look up this year
None Of my friends were in the sheep
peltng line, told him.
oh il don't make no difference partio'-
larlyu he said Only thought maybe the
tip was a good enough one 10 git spread
around a little. Had you heard what
Pennsylvany has went and done"
Il said didn't recall just then anything
that Pennsylvania had been guilty Of.
We'll, she's went and done il said my
familiar fellow passenger, and II she amt
sorry for il by this time next year then
III miss my guess Wait till sheep peltin'
over there falls fiat Wait till they find
out that they amt always goin to be sure
o. Rettin' their trout unless they can carry
a gun
Seems to me Pennsylvany couldn't "a
knowed that bears was queer, partic larly
/ Sullivan county bears, or she wouldn't "a
went and done IT, We gethared in somethln'
. like fifty-nine bears among us last season.
but il we git a single, solitary one this
year itll have 10 be one that didn't let its
! queerness work
"'Fify-nine bears in one season was
! sompthin alarmin' TO bears, Of course
but they war worth $50 apiece ana Penn
| sylvany oughtnt 10 went and done II.
! Knowed bears was queer, didn't yOu;'
Il said had heard so,
"Hearsay evidence amt lest what it's
cracked up to be. said this positive son
! Of sullivan but IL goes in this case. There
amt anything that Creeps or Craws or
walks or climbs or swimS that il half a.
, queer as bears is, Sullivan county bears
anyhow But wouldn't hardly a thought
that they'd be queer enough 10 know that
! il bphOOved EN- to move out ana 90 across
the river 70 Pennsylyany, They're movin
out
Il could see both sides Of the river from
| the car window, up and down. a long way,
| but | didn't see any bears on the move.
| Nv friend in his Sunday go TO meetin
clothes must have seen some though, for he
repeated his assertion.
s'They're movn' out, said he We had
calclated on gethern, in more ylt than
| fifty-nine this year and we're gOin 10 miss
'em a whole LOT, and Pennsylyany oughtn't
to went and done IT,
S'Yit il was considerable OF a nuisance
| too. havin' to carry a gun as part o. your
! tackle when "Ou went after trout. that is
! if YOU wanted TO be sure o gettin' EN-
! and would rather save your bear till fall
when they was worth more But when
! you're after trout you want trout and II
Amt pleasin' 20 have a bear ketch 'em away
from you right under your nose.
Il said no. il didn't seem il would be-
! SWhy, I've been 80 worked up before
! now at havin' bears fishin' the creek ahead
o me aud disappointin' me in my ketch,
| declared the passenger. that | almost
could a sworri / git oil het up even yit
whenever think o what happened 70 me
the time was ketchin' that old socker OF
trout up on the headwaters.
81 had been Ayin' for that big feller
ever 80 long and got him hooked at last
at the end Of hundred feet Of line, and
was reeln' him in after the dngedest fight
| ever had with three pound trout, and
I'd had TO knock over two hears that was
fishin' ahead Of me on the creek before
fastened on 10 the old chap at that, He
had give up and had him up as nigh as
! twenty foot 10 me, when out from the
bushes at the side OF the creek shot big
bears paw,
Il hadn't time to git my gun, which
had chucked on the bank when | hooked
that fish. a gun bein' mighty unhandy
piece of tackle at setch particlar time,
before that bear paw grabbed my leader,
hauled the trout in. took II on Of the hook
and then riZ up out o the bushes with the
bear that owned Il.
"The bear shook the big trout at me.
and of he went with It into the woods out
Of sight And that was the same bear
/ know that lugged away them three sheep