The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-29
KBI'CHED!!
Wes Woodruff Ina TurribIs PsrdIck-
ament..-Wss Got Kstchsd IN One
Of His Own Bear Traps and Set
Down to Die, But Was Rsscoed

Yves Woodruff. our expert hunter and
trapper had a heart rendering expert
ence on last Thursday and Friday the
memry of which viii flourish forever in,
his memry like green bay tree as you
might say. Yves says he may forgit TO
pay his debts and that he call1ilates he
will forget to do other things which he
ort to do but he'll be jiggered if he'll
ever forgit what he went through during
them two days and he hopes he wont
never be called on to 60 through SIGH a
turrible ordeal agin.
On last Sunday the weather being fine
and Yves having nothin more partickler
to do than ushual he TUX pail on his
arm and thort he would make a trip to
the top of Sawridge Mountain to see If
there was any blueberries and if so he
would fill his pail and bring them home
for his wife to can. Before Yves start
ed out Wesse's wife told him it wouldn't
be no use for him to fill the pail with
blueberries becuz she didn't have enuff
cans to hold EN-, but Yves he says, well
we can eat what we can't can, can't
wei" so off he went whissling merry
to hisself as he left Bingville little
thinking what a horrible experience he
was agoing to haft to undergoe a few
days later as a result of his trip for
blueberries.
When Yves reached the top of Saw
fridge Mountain he found blueberries
thickern hops and fld his pail in less
than no time Then he ct all the blue
berries he could hold and after he had
did that he still kept on eating becuz
H. .o:I Il s6ax,a e.. iak 49,, lie
big blueberries as big as marbles ripen
ct and as result by noon Yves was
didn't care if he never seen another
BURBERRY as long as he lived or longer.
While Yves was poking around
on top of the mountain what
should he come acrost except signs of
bear-he seen where the bears had been
eating blueberries and found their tracks
along brook and so he says to hisself,
"Dognashion if l don't bring one of my
bear traps up here and set it and ketch
one of these critters and sell his pelt
for ten dollers and git bounty of ten
dollers on his head which will be 20
dollers made as easy as fallin often a
log" and so Yves he brung his blueber-
ries home but he didn't tell nobuddy
not even his wife about having saw
signs of bear becuz he wanted to sprise
the natives by ketching one and then
telin how he done it.
Well, on Wensday mornin before day
light Yves left Bingville with bear trap
on his shoulder before anybuddy was
outen bed and logged it clean up to
the top of Sawridge where the bear
signs was thickest and cut a short log
about four feet long and tied the chain
to it so that when he ketched a bear it
couldn't drag the clog fur through the
brush before it would git all hung up
and after he had made the trap fast to
the clog the next thing was to set the
trap. To do this hisself Yves had to drag
heavy log and roll it on the spring
so that the jaws of the trap would open.
Jest as Yves was setting the spring what
should that dadbusted log do but roll
often the spring Yves seen it start to
roll and tried to jump outen the way
but tripped and fell settin down on the
trap jest as the jaws snapped shet on
the slack of his pants.
Yves set there stun with surprise for
minnit then he tried to git up only to
DISCOVER that he was fast by the pants
in the trap and every time he tried to
get on his feet the trap chung to him.