The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1913-10-24

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he cooked up one +shrewd eye. I'm
sort Of British. Canadian? No. l
cayn't claim that either. coming from
the Labrador, for that's Newf'nland, a
days march nearer home.
"Say. Mrs. Trevor. you don't know
my name yet. It's Smith. and with
my friends I'm mostly jesse"
IF you please. may l be 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 drifted my ponies
down when l came from the States.
| l 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. don't claim to have been
knocked all in a heap with the seen
cry. No. What took holt of me good
and hard was the company-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 remittance man. Thar was a
stallion and his harem,. this we're fool
Jones bein' one of his young mares.
Besides that, there was heaps of ILL
| friendly folks in fur, hair, and feat1-
ers. Yes. have been right to home
since located"
| ''But grizzly bears? How frightful!"
YES. 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"
1.-THE biggest criminals has got most
scare at police. Bars has no use for
sportsmen, nor me neither. My rifles
heaps fiercer than any bar, and I've
chased more sportsmen than has
grizzlies.
Wasn't Mr.. Trevor one Of them?'
Jesse grinned.
of the story must be worth hearing.
wall, Mr. Trevor took out sum-
Minis agin me for chasing him off my
| ranch. He got fined for having no gun
| license, and no dawg license, and not
paying his poll.tax, and Cap Taylor
bound him over to keep the peace. |
| amt popular now with Mr.. Trevor,
whereas he got off cheap. Now. IT
them bars could shoot"
hadn't thought of that. Can they
| be tamed?" asked.
"Men can be gep.ied. and they needs
| tanning most. Thar was three grizzlies
sort of adopted party by the name
of Capen Adams, and camped ana
| travelled with him most familiar. Once
them four Migrants promenaded on
Market Street in Frisco. Not that
/ holds with this Adams in misleading
his bars among man-smell SO strong
and distrackful to their peace of mind.
But still | reckon Capen Adams and
me sort of takes after each other. I'm
only attractive to animals"
| oh surely!" laughed.
But Jesse became quite dismal. "!'m
not reckoned," he bemoaned himself.
among the popular attractions. The
neighbors SHES at coming near my
\ ranch"
/ well. If you protect grizzlies and
hunt sportsmen. surely it's not surpris-
ing"
/ "Cant please all parties, Ell? Wall,
perhaps that's how the herd is graz
ing. Yes. Come to think Of it, re-
member oncat Smithsonian grave
robber comes to inspeck South Cave.
He said I'd got bone yard of ancient
people, and he'd rob graves to find
out all about them olden times. He
wanted to catch the atmosphere of
them days. so sort Of helped. Rob-
bling graves amt exactly holy voca-
ton, the party had mean eye. Ger
! man name. and sort of patronizing
manner, but still helped around to
get him atmosphere. me and Eph.''
who's Eph?"
"Oh. he's just silver-tip, what sci
enti6c parties calls, ursus horribilis
ord You just cast your eye whar the
trickle stream falls below my cabin.
Dye see them sarvis berry bushes
down below the spray?"
Where the bushes are waving? Oh,
look. there's gigantic grizzly stand
ing up. and pulling the branches!"
Yes, that's Eph.
well. as was tellin' you. Eph and
me is helping this scientific person to
get the atmosphere Of them ancien:
times I"