News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-07-23

III you please, may De one OF your
friends ?"
"If behave good, you may. No
harm in my trying
The moment Jesse Smith had given
me his name, / knew him well by rep
utation. Comments by Surly Brown,
the ferryman, and my husbands bitter
hatred had outlined dangerous char
acter. Nobody else lived within a
days journey.
THAT'S my home" said Jesse. Dye
see dim trail jags down that upper
cliff? That's whar l drifted my ponies
down when I came from the States.
! didn't know of the wagon road from
Hundred Mile House to the ferry,
which runs by the north end of my
ranch"
"And the tremendous grandeur of
the placer"
Hum. I don't claim to have been
knocked all in a heap with the seem
cry. No. What took holt of me good
and hard was the cempany-a silver
top bar and his missus, both thou
sand Founders, with their three young
ladies, now married and settled beyond
the skyline. There's two couples of
prime eagles still camps along thar
by South Cave. The timber wolf
trimmed out because he wasted around
like a remittance man. Thar was
stallion and his harem, this yere fool
Jones bein' one of his young mares.
Besides that, there was heaps of liz
friendly folks in fur, hair, and feath-
ers. Yes, I have been right to home
since I located"
"But grizzly bears? How frightful!"
eyes. They was frightened at first.
The coarse treatment they gets from
hunters, makes them sort Of bashful
with any stranger"
"But the greatest hunters are afraid
Of them"
"The biggest criminals has got most
scare at police. Bars has no use for
sportsmen, nor me neither. My rifles
heaps fercer than any bar, and I've
chased more sportsmen than I Mas
grizzlies"
wasn't Mr.. Trevor one of them?"
Jesse grinned.
"Tell me-" I said, for the other side
of the story must be worth hearing. |
"Wall, Mr.. Trevor took out sum-
minis agin me for chasing him off my |
ranch. lie got fined for having no gun |
license, and no dawg licerse, and not
paying his poll-taT, and Cap Taylor
bound him over to keep the peace. I |
ain't popular now with Mr.. Trevor,
whereas he got of cheap. Now, if
them bars could shoot"
I hadn't thought of that. Can they
be tamed?" I asked.
"Men can be gentled, and they needs
tanning most. Thar was three grizzlies
sort of adopted a party by the name
IF Capen Adams, and camped and
with him most familiar. Once
hem four Migrants promenaded on
Market Street in Frisco. Not that
holds with this Adams in misleading
lis bars among man-smell so strong
md distrackful to their peace of mind,
But still l reckon Capen Adams and
ne sort of takes after each other. I'm
,nly attractive to animals
ooh, surely!" I laughed.
But Jesse became quite dismal. I'm
lot reckoned," he bemoaned himself,
among the popular attractions. The
leighbors SHES at coming near my
anch."
''Well, if you protect grizzlies and
unit sportsmen, surely it's not surpris-
n.y."
Cant please all parties, Ell? Wall,
erhaps that's how the herd is graz
lg. Yes. Come to think of it, I re-
lember oncet a Smithsonian grave
Obber comes to inspeck South Cave.
lie said I'd got bone yard of ancient
eople, and he'd rob graves to find
ut air about them olden times. He
'anted to catch the atmosphere of
hem days, so | sort of helped. Rob-
ing graves amt exactly a holy voca-
on, the party had a mean eye, a Ger
ian name, and a sort of patrOnizing
tanner, but still I helped around to
ct him atmosphere, me and Eph."
''Who's Eph?"
"Oh, he's just a sDver-tip, what sci
ntitic parties calls ursus hoTribilis ,
I'd. You just cast your eye whar the
tickle stream falls below my cabin.
we see them sarvis berry bushes
own below the spray?"
where the bushes are waving? Oh,
'ok, there's gigantic grizzly stand
lg up, and pulling the branches!"
Eyes, that's Eph.
"Well, as l was tellin' you, Eph and
lie is helping this scientific person to
ct the atmosphere of them ancient ,,
mes"
"But the poor man would die of 4,
'ight!"
"Too busy running. When he reached
ancouver, he was surely a cripple
lough, and no more use to science. :
hall I call Eph?"
81 think not today" said l. hurriedly
sing, "for indeed l should be getting
ONE at once"
Without ever touching the wound,
g had given me the courage to live, :
ad made my behavior of the morning :
eem that Of a silly schoolgirl; but
ill did not feel quite up to a social !.
production. | said | was sure that