The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-02
THREE BEARS AND A
i PORCINE SPOOk
Unsxpeetsd and Edfyins Nun.
berS In an Evenings Enter
tainment at Rocky Run.


] ing any visit OF mine in the hemlock belt .
aid John Gilbert. the travelling grocery.
man. when So many unexpected and
, edifyinE numbers were or the progrn NINE
as were presented the evening dropped
in for a little chat with my hack country
friends, Jefry Mum and his wife Grizzly.
in my old stamping ground. the Rocky
J Run district
When | was ~ their place a year before
JET and sam Nelson were very much al
the outs over a bear This evening that
I am referring 10 JET hadn't got home
Z yet from the woods and while I WIS wait
| ing for him Ia come asked his wife Crilly
| II the row between Sam and Jen had been
/ fixed mp. She laughed and said no.
And neither one Of em k lied the bea '
they re squabhling over AZ that did they
said J.
-'Course mott replied Chilly IT was a
tame hear and Jeff found il IN the woods
with q rope around its neck II haVin
broke loose from somewheres. but cause
he was vorkin for Sam. Sam claimed that
the bear ought Co he his'n. JET he didn't
see ~ he could look at the case similar
10 sam, 81 he took the hear and sold u
and Sam up and discharged him.
And sam keeps poking around and
botherinR JET vet for the money h~ solh
the hear for. eh'' said
jest the same said Chilly. He was
pokin' round here only to-day. and JefT
was sayin' to him that II he didn't quit
his pokin' round he "a IN him the way he
didn't want 20 he fixed; and Sam he says
10 JET that he poke round here when
ever he felt like pokin' round They
KEEP on ightin' with their Jaws. both on
en- edgin' away NJ they ~ and hghtin
ferceT and ierCer the fIrder away from
one another they got. and the last blows
heerd struck was Jeh hollerin' To Sam
that the next time he come pokin' round
here he'd iix him. sure a. guns. and Sam
hollerin' hack that he had h~erd ducks
quack before
Gritty aDi I were churkling over her
description ~ the encounter between
JET and Sam when We heard n gun 20
on hack in the orchard Half a minute
later in came JEFF looking glum and wor-
rcd He stood his gun in corner. .aid
How DO do. john to me. and dropped
into n chair
~ said Id do IT, said he. uneasy. but
evidently seeking eNt"nuation for what
he had done 7 aid moren wunst that
II he didn't quit pokin' round here Id
do IL. hut didn't calc'late fer to kill
him. ! only calc'lated on pepperin' %
him 40 he'd remember IL an quit hts
pokin round. But killed him''
Gritty founced down on a chair, COW
cred her face with her apron and shook
with -obs
-'Yesr said she as well as she could
between her sobs. and now you'll be
hung and nice way i'm be TO leave
me a vidder 10 be p'inted al and scorned"
I had caught my breath. hut was still
standing struck dumb
And his widderIl have standin' in
the deestric''' -obhed Crilly
Then JET looked up half scared and
said
-'Widders Who's. Widder?'
sam Nelson's widder' Crilly ~pbba1
-JeH looked AZ mo whore I was stand
look ed AZ Chilly. sitting there ~obbing
and rocking tn and fro with her apron
over her face. Then " seemed ~ - l,,,
didn't know whether 10 hurst out laugh
ing or use some ~ the tall language IN
which he - an expert ~" chose IN.
language. n" used It ably while and
then cooled down.
sam Nelson W.dder' sad he Is
both o. you -stCh consummit idiits a. 20
think its sam We went an killnd? I've
killed Old Blacky. didn'' cllc late to
Then jets Wife Gritty. popped up like
a Jack in the box and hOunced out 81 the
room, Stunning the door. jeff ghzed
after her a moment and then said ~ me:
Consarn@d u Chilly don't act as II
she was disspp Inted'
Now knew that Old Blacky had b..n
a long time nuisance about the Rocky
Run naighborhOnd and that JeT had
Threatened to do something To him n his
shopping around his premises waSn
stopped or course BlaCky should have
Of hun was bound 10 make muss for
Glib Wiz wouldn't have taken a good deal
Of money for him. he being blooded Bark-
shire and the only Berkshire in th" dis
trict. black ~ black cats and as big as he
was black
lei. said l. Glib WiX hasn't got the
forgivngest disposition IN the world
and thsre IL nothing he thinks more Of
than he dos'e Of that pig The chances.
Jefry. are all in favor of his everlastingly
seeking It 90 YOU
I know II. John. said JET. an
guess ] better 10 right down an break
the news gently To him ~" knows |
warned him time an az in. an l'll show
him that I didn't calc'lats to kill IN"
CrittsT dead
from Jeff's and Gib and his wife were
getting ready for he'd when Jaf and got
there They were surprised 10 ~
and JEFF started right ia and told Gih
that the reason We had come down was
To break some news tn him gently JsH
broke II 80 gently that Git most Jumped
out ~ his socks and his wife raised a
sCre.Ch
Gib' said Jen. breaking il 10 him
gently. Old Blacky ~ dead
Bear traps take you. J"if' exclaimed
Glib. most crying. You've went an
H llsd that hog % mine that didn't have !
no ekal. neither tn home nor abroad
And quicker than a cat could raw y /
rat Glib had Jeffry by the neck He fopre,l I
him IN hrs back and whacked him until /
Il sounded like splitting knntty wood :
I hey were az IL hammer and longs | on /
he table Co give EN- room. and Mrs Glib /
ON a chair begging them not /
~ he - unneighborly. when piercing .
.1Isal came from out toward the rig pen /
-Gib heard u at once and tore loose
rom JET putting and painting. and nus-.ad /
md nImpl..d almOst as had a. Jen was
'Ncept that one Of Jeh's eyes was closed ,
PRETTY enectually
THERE hollered Glib. as good a. he
'ould with what little wind he had l"ft
Old Blaeky has been led 10 the slaughter.
IN nov some one IA stealth nv y.arln'
hOat'
with that away Glib went. tearing out
n the hotIsa To save the shoat BEFORE
w could gather ourselves To- TAX. IN the
ntirs situation. hack he came with a