The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-15

was takin home that bOrrisd butcher
kuife9' says Jase.
-Yes!' says Fvander bnGhtenn' up, an
he was startin' IN to tell what happsDed
10 the bear when Uncle Jase. -milin'
mora n ever. held up his hand again
an saws:
Jest a minute. Evander" says he.
lest a minute The frs winter these
folks was in them woods was = buzzer.
SAYS he. ~ come srly an II come hard
The snow piled itself up like hills an
70 there a been a Oh nom 'te- 10 the dses-
trio lid a-skeer1 folks 10 death the waV
Il d sunk an sunk an KEEP on sinkiU
till Il got 10 the bottom Of itself. SAYS
.iase. But this Young choppers cabin
was snug an warm. an he had snaEs o
lear meat an" ven son slowed away.
Besides that snvs lnse he could ever
lasiin'lv nlav the fiddle. an he KEEP things
CheerPd up
Well saws he. ~ come around one
day that this yOun gsteTs daddy had 10
make a TIM 10 the mill settlement. siX
miled away. TO 80 about a decker Ter
some logs he had fer sale. 40 Get arter
dinner he started spect'n'. % course
20 be hack IN time FER supper. he took
his gun along. thinkin he mOughi have TO
blink a few wolves. OF mehl'e panther
1r two. on The way. When he got 10 The
settlement he found " in the terriblesi
kind OF a weeDin an waihn' tins. The
settlement folks was actin a. n the Last
dav was on 10 EN-. an they was only
Waitin' fer Gabriel 10 blow, says Jase
laemf savs he. that poor o. haldhead
Pete had gone an lot one % hrs oxen
rhy IT, hind boot agin one OF he arms an
break w. an folks was mOnrnin' the
awfullrs, kind.
-'Jeat a minute. Evander. says Uncle
JAse. az wander vas Openin' bis mouth
20 say somsthin that looked 10 me a. u
it want Eoin' 10 he complimentary 20
Jase. Jest a minute. says he. an he
went night on maxim history. Twa'n't
on account o. poor Of haldhead Petes
arm bein broke that folks vas mOanin'
an mournin' says he, hut there was
goin' 10 be- a dance az the settlement
tavern that night. Baldhead Pete was
the only fiddler In all that settlement an
he was gOin' 10 play FER that dance. an
here hA had gone an spilled all the fun
by lstiin' an OK kick HE arm in two sos
he couldn't a. much ~ even tune his Of
fiddle up.
The folks said they had hserd o
mean tricks bein' played. SAYS Jaae. but
this was the meanest there uas any record
n. an they was feelin' all peryadin'
hard ag'in poor Of Pete Consistently
when tina, pioneer from Pizen swamp
struck the settlement an some one recO-
membered that he could tear a fiddle
I'll 10 pieces they lit night on him an
nothin' would do hut he must stay that
night an fiddle fer the dance. NJ there
vas ~ shillin IN il fer him an a. they
said they'd send word back 90 his wife
an that astOundin' young an ~ theirn
what was keepin' him. he concluded 60
stay an Eddie an let EN- on with the
dance an JOY be- unconfned. says Jase
But they didn't pt word back 10 the
Pizen swamp cabin Ter tho tOler BILE good
reason that tho feller they ssnt With the
word had a gal that lived Oden the road
two miled from the Pizen swamp cleann'
an that was a. nigh as he got 20 IT, So
o. course th8re was q hullahalOO % time
AZ the cabin when II got way past supper
time an Tho head o the family hadn't
made no sign VII o. comm hack. but when
u got dark an that amaEin fOur-yeaT-Old
had took 20 thinkin' over il he jest saya
10 his nanny.
There amt nOthin' in these here
woods. sHys he. that kin git away with
daddy. says no -'COrdin' 70 nv idea
says he. -daddy's got to telhn' wolf an
panther an bear stores a. the tavern
down there. says he. -an' he aint Roln'
10 let noii5dy git ahead Of him AZ II N he
has "a stay all night says be-. There
amt no use q me an Won a-loan' no
sleep over h. save he. IAN ths best thing
We ln do 10 10 bunk in, says.h he
Ihnnpsi says Uncle Jass What
= young IN that boy was. Evander,' saws
h.
No him an he nanny went an
hunked IN. saye he. but war alona In
ne night they was woke I'd ~ the nli
hredett yeihn an howlin' around the
CABIN. Inc young un Jumped outen bed
an run 20 tho winder
-'"Well. NANNY aaya h Is,,s,,
outsn the winder. - thsra's arv 70,
wolves 10 The Pizon sWamp d.sstTiei.s