The daily Alaskan., 1912-11-05
THE MAN WHO WAS PEART
 By M QUAD Copyright 1912. by Associated Lit-
 erory Press.

II Copyright 1912, by Associated Lit- II erory Press.
 The old possum hunter of the Ten nessee mountains was sixty years old' but was SO strong and hale and hearty that knew he must have been won- derfully tough man m his younger days. I tried several times to draw him out, and one evening as we sat smoking, with hls good wife on the other side of the fireplace, he began:
 When got married thought ] was fest the pearteSt thing on the face or the airth. | could ouUump, outholler and outright anything I cum across on these we're mountains. | had never been licked by bar or man, and it any crItter was shoutin' when ! hove iu sight he shet up mighty sudden. NeS' I was the hull thing, and it kinder makes me lonesome to think back to them days"
 'sTo the times when you was maxim a fule of yo'self" said Mrs. White without raising her eyes from her knit ting
 "Arter had got married" continued Feb, with a wink at me, "l thought Co steady down, but folks wouldn't let me. If didn't have a fuss with somebody about SO often they talked that I was Iosln' my sand. Mind yo', I didn't go howlin' around like a raGin' lion lookin fur trubble. but the critters who were achin' fur llckln's cum Co me had to tackle six different men right we're to home In one week"
 And you was glad to do it.' said Mrs. White.
 "Waal. | was no man Co run for the hresh when a man cum along and sed he was most dead for want Of whoonlu' | took it Co be a kinder way to turn to and give him what he want cd. One night In the summer, as | had lust got to sleep. a ycnin' starts up about a half a mile away. It was noise betwixt the roarIn' Of a lion and the growIiu' of a bulldog, and as 1t drawed higher the old woman sot up and asks:
 "Zeb White, but what in the name of all creashun is th0tF
 "Tts a bulIClnc got of the railroad tracks and maxim It's way across the kentry,' says l.
 "Tts nuthin' of the kind says she. It's Gabriel soundn his trumpet for the jedgment dayr
 eve was both mistaken, however. The noise came higher and higher aud Nmeby we made out that it was a man. He had come to lick me. He had come fifty miles. It was a moon light night, and I got up and looked out the winder at him. The sight made my hair curl He was nigh seven feet high and as broad os a barn. He was as big as a giant In a sIdeShOw. When he saw my head at the wInder he gives a roar that goes echoin' over the mounting and says:
 "'Come down. Feb Whiter
 "T hain't got no fursc with vou,' says l.
 But come down and oblceEc me and make me feel that life is worth Twin"
 "TU come down. says |, and not withStanding the old woman hung on to me with tears and said I'd be kill ed I went down.
 "'Ar' this Feb WhlteT he asks In a purrlu' voice.
 "It arr
 "Then I am the thankfulest man in an Tcnnessccl Zeh, I'm goin' to squash yo' an Co squashr
 'I made up my mind that I wos a dead coon" continued Zeh, 'hut would do the best I could. We squared or and went at it, and in about two min. utes was a surprised man.
 "So was the stranger. He was nuth- in' but a windbag. He was as fabby as a goose and as soft as wax, and I believe | could have licked him with one hand tied behind me It was over in five minutes, and he was holleriu' for mercy. When let him mp he said:
 "'Zeb, 1t was squar' and fair, and I hain't no complaint to make. Did you ever see a circuST
 T never did
 "Theu go down to Bristol on We'd nesday and see one. Thars an sorts of animals. and one is called an ele- phant He kin lick you in two min utes'
 Men the old woman had a deal Of curiosity about that elephant, as we had never seen one, and so we got ready and went to town. The circus and the elephant was thar, along with a heap Of other things. We pays our money and goes in, and | says to the feller inside:
 "'What's that critter they calls the elephant, if you plcaseT
 "He pints the way, and we go over and look at him. He was the biggest Twin thing ever saw, but after look in him over says to the old woman:
 "T reckon he's achin' to be walloped, and I reckon I'm the crittcr to do it.
 "She begs and pleads with me not to try it on. She p'ints out the fact that he's bigger'n our new shed and that
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