The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-02-25

skeert and no mistakel II that bar
had rooted mint longer should
have screamed out, but he hauled of
jlst in time. He had other bizness,
and he could finish me any old time.
"Our cabin was fixed up purity com
Portable for pore folks. Thar was a
milk safe, a dish cupboard q lounge,
chairs, table, and so on, and in the
co'ner was bag OF -four and keg
OF 'lasses, with bacon hanging to the
hooks. Yes, sab, we was plumb com
Portable on that day, and I orter been
singin' gospel hymns instead OF hunt
In That bar had come into the
cabin to wreck things, and ne started
like steam engine. saw every
move he made. In sixty seconds he
had that bag Of -four scattered all over
the flooh. In another sixty he had the
1asses mixed with II. Slch a muss mo-
body ever saw befo'. He wouldn't
eat the bacon, but Jest chawed and
tore It into strips
Bruin on Warpath.
"1f fo' or Ave drunken and ugly
tempered men had come in to wreck
things they could not have gone at It
any intellgenter and mo- low down
than that bar He tipped over the
safe and cupboard and clawed 'em to
splinters; he used up the lounge in
two minits; he smashed chairs with
one blow of his paw. ! couldn't have
taken an AK and knocked the table
apart as quick as he did. And all the
time he kept an eye on me, and IL I'd
been all right I couldn't have jumped
up and reached the doah befo' he'd
had me. Inside Of twenty minits he
had wrecked everything breakable,
and then he stood for leetle and sur
veyed his work. Right then I was
hopin that he'd be satisfied and go
away. ] had stolen part of the
Lawd's day, and / thought / had been
punished nun. Seems that / hadn't.
however. That's the trubble with
wickedncss, stranger. When you start
I'm bein' wicked thar's no tellin' how
long and how hard you are goln' to be
lambasted TO pay up for It.
"Blmeby the bar decided to end up
by havin' some fun with me. ! don't
reckon fooled him the least mite
when played dead. A bar hain't no
idiot about slch things. He cum with
n rush and Jumped on to the bed and
rolled over and over and wallowed
around like n hog in a mudhole. His
claws ripped and tore the bedclothes
and the ticks, and purity soon the
pcsky varmint crowded me out. and I
fell on the fiooh. I struck my ankle
In slch way that the pain made Inc
faint away. and have allus been glad
on II.
Arrived Just In Time.
at was about this time that the old
woman, llstenln' to the preachln' over
at the Co'ners, got the feelin' on her
that all was not right at home, and
she comes away to see what's the
row. She hears the rumpus and smells
bar befo she gets to the cabin. She
also sees my rife standin' at the doah.
She comes keerfully up and peeks in
and watches things for mebbe five
minits. This was soon arter / had
tainted away, and the varmlnt was
playin' horse with me. He was drag.
gin me all over the room in play, and
he was maxim me sight TO see. /
was all klvered with the 'lasses and
-four, which was beaten into a paste
and I was bein' dragged over the
wreck OF the furniture TO boot. The
bar had bit me a dozen times over,
but nothln' to hurt. He was probably
savin' his big bites to the last
"The old woman stood thar and
watched, sorry for the devastation, but
feelin' that the lesson would do me
good, and at last she ups with the
rifle and shoots old bruin through the
head. IT was an hour later when ]
cum TO, and IL was jest month befo'
l stepped outdoahs ag'in. We was
more'n 800 out o. pocket and was
laid up all that time for fyin' in the
face Of the Lawd. When cum to |
expected n powerful lambastIn' from
the old woman. II was her golden
chance, and looked to see her take
advantage of 1t. What dye reckon she
said?"
"She rubbed in of course"
"Not n bit Of It. stranger. She didn't
say blamed word for two hull weeks
and then one afternoon she quietly OBJ
served:
"'Zeb that was a whopper OF bar
but you jest consider to remember
that, no matter how whopper bar
may be, the Lawd is sartin suah to be
heap whoppinger.' M. QUAD.