The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-04-27

0lLCl, LAG SoyoS Vi"0 "~"- $500
through yet. We can't work in that
cornfeld with no weapon but that
old gun,' he says. We must borry a
rifle
$50 me and Charles went up to
Joe Gould's an borried his rifle an
gun. Then we went back to the
cornfield to begin getherin' up our
corn the pesky bear had scattered.
Simeon, there he stood! The
bear! There he stood again slashlns
away at the shocks o. corn, an
. planin' MILL
Take that for your impudence!
1 hollers, an l turned the OF gun
loose on him with such a belching
O. buckshot as never slid out of any
gun before nor since. Down went
the bear, an down went me, moren't
ten foot back ards, into a corn shock,
the kickin' o. the old gun was so
hefty. The bear got up before l did,
an went limpin' an howlin' away,
follered by bullet from Charles
borrowed rifle.
"'If the front end O. this old gun
was as all-pervading as it's hind end,
Charles, / says, rubin my shout
der, that bear won't be alive more'n
a few minutes to be uncomfortable
in,' I says.
"'Looks to me as If you mowt be
right, Sizer,' says Charles, AN l con-
slider that we kim stack our arms,
now, an go getherin' up the corn,
says he, an he won't bother us no
more says Charles.
1.-THE bear had gone on into the
woods an out O sight. Charles, he
took his gun an walked over amongst
the corn shocks to look the ground
over, an I got up an sot on pile
O. corn investigatin' my shoulder.
II guess it was mebbe ten minutes
fore I looked up, an when l looked
up l come as nigh faintin' as could
be an not do it. As soon as l got
my wind and tongue, began to yell
to Charles.
'Charlesr I hollers. Come here
with your gun! The bears back!
He's back, worse than ever!'
Cause there he stood, not 20 foot
away, leerin' at me round shock O.
corn! Charles startI as soon as he
heerd me holler. l riz up to try an
load my old gun, an when the bear
heerd Charles comm amongst the
shocks, he got skeert, an he made a
dash to get away.
AS Charles was comm up in the rear
o. the bear, the bear thought it'd be
safer to come my way than to go
t'other way, an he run right on to m e,
bowled me over as if l was a tenpin
an he was ball, an walked right over
me from one end O me to t'other, an
put in his best ticks for the woods. Just
then Charles came in sight of him.
Lay still, Sizer!' he hollers. Lay
still. an III bore him like tappin ma
pie tree! Lay still!' Charles hollers.
II laid still. Simeon. an I couldn't
"a done nothin' else if I'd "a wanted to,
the bear had stamped me so deep down
in the dust. So laid still, an Charles
was as good as his word.
He banged away an bored the bear
from end to end, an the bear didn't
take more han dozen steps further.
He fell dead among the shocks.
"'But great Hickory Jackson,
Charlesl' says I. Who'd "a thunk that
beard come back so quick arter that
dose o buckshot give him?' saysI.
Nobody says Charles.
AN who would "a thunk it, Simeon p
said Sizer.
lord almighty, Sher!" exclaimed
Sim Bowers; nobody would"
"'Of course they wouldn't. " iocks!"
said Sizer Slocum. "Of course nobody
d "a thunk the bear would "a come
back like that! An he didn't neither!"
"Sizer Slocum!" said Storekeeper
Bowers, Indignantly. 81 got somethin'
else to do than sittin' herean, listenin'
toyour triflin' yarns!"
Simeon" said Sizer, folks would "a
had good reason not to think that the
bear would "a come back like that. an
they'd "a ben right, for the next day
arter Charles bored the bear, Joe
Gould's boy was goin' through the
woods, half mile from that field of
our'n. an he comes onto dead bear
layin' in there, so riddled with bucksh OF
that it was most ready for mincemeat;
so it was plain enough that there
want no ground at all for any one
a-thinkin' that the bear would a.
come back. Simeon"
"You don't mean to say, Sizer Slocum,
that"
Il mean to say, Simeon, that the bear
Charles bored from end to end wasan-
other bear-an' it's tremendous queer
thing that nothin' al out it hain't got
down here fore this An he was such
a big Teller, too!"-N. Y. Sun.
The Ubiquitous Scot.