The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-03-21
IN HOT ARGUMENT
BILL SANDERS MATCHES WITS
WITH SQUIRE IKE sTRATToN.
Two Had Different Ideas as to the
Real Solution Of the Bear Prob.
lem, and It Is Not
Yet Settled.

Il see there wasn't no use o. my
uyin to make any p'ints ag'ln svsch
tremendous arguher ez Squire Ike
Stratton,' said Bill Sanders, the homer
from down Shinhopple way $50 | took
my gun an-but the how of it was like
this:
"sOme Of us was settn' at Joe Blnn's
grocery store an in come young Snivc-
" Swayback with cub bar he had
run agin out on the ridge an killed,
an | up an says that I'd bet leetle
sumpin' that If bars could talk they'd
say us Shinhopplers was the consarn-
dest passel O loonies that ever was let
loose
"Why they'd say, its Jest like
KILN the goose that laid the golden
eggr
That's about what they'd sayp
says /.
Whatd they say that about us fcrg'
says Squire Ike Stratton, all ready fer
to argyfy.
They'd say it about us, says |,
cause we'm setch dern fools ez TO kill
'em fore theym growed. Cant them
fellers see that they can't hey no fun
with us when VEIN only three weeks
old or three months old or only six
months old, fer that matter?" they'd
say. "If them idjlts ID let us be till
we'm growed up can't they see that
they'd hev ten times ez much fun In the
woods? Why they'd say, 'them fell
lers is the consarndest loonies that was
ever let loose" they'd say, "the way
they rob the future O the Shinhopple
deestric out of a lot O. fun"
"That's what they'd say, squire, an
they'd hey us sot down toler'hle nigh
to what we be- says l.
"'Which l don't agree with you, viii
liam, not by a tarnation sightr says
Squire Ike.
"An' O. course | didn't s'pose he
would, fer if he'd agreed with me he
wouldn't a-had no chance fer to argyfy,
an thatd been wuss to him than stop
pin O his breath.
"Jest the same, squire says l. 1t
don't stand to reason that they amt
right Fer instance, here's a family O.
bars. Three of em is cubs, say three
weeks old. Us fellers runs ag'in 'em
in the woods. What do we up an do
on the spot?
"'First we git away with the old uns.
Then we either knock the young uns ia
the head or take 'em home an let 'em
starve,' | says. Now l says, I'll go
you even furder n the bars would ii
they could talk, an I'll say that us fell
lers is the consarndest loonies that ever
was let run loose fer even KILN the
bars that was already growed up I'M
der setch circumstances 1 says.
"'Do you know what us fellers orto
do when we run ag'in a bar family like
that? says I. Jest pass the time O day
with 'em an let 'em go,' says, $50
they kin go on raisin' them cubs fer US
to hey fun with by an by l says.
Squire | says, let 'em alone, but keep
an eye on en- says, an mark 'em
down fer future reference.
Seems to me- l says, that it's a
mighty good thing there want no Shin
hopple feller citizen along with Noar In
the ark, fer if there had a-been,' l says,
he'd a-folered the two bars when
they come outen the ark an got away
with EN- an their cubs an we wouldn't
a-had no bars now at all 7 says.
"'We'd a-had more pigs an sheep,
though says Squire Ike, borryin' a
chaw often Snively Swaybock's plug.
'an' 81 Groner wouldn't a-had his ear
an most Of his chist clawed off, an
our wives an young uns could go ont
huc1lebcrryin without bein' afeard
they wouldn't never come back ag'in.
don't know but what I'm leetle sorry,
William, that they want Shinhopple
feller citizen in the ark along with
Noar,' says the squire. I don't know
but what ami says he.
'I see then that there want no kind
o. use O. my tryin' to make any n'ints
ag'inst setch a tremendous argufier az
Squire Ike Stratton, an so took my
gun an went out. An ! knocked over
three bar afore night, countin the two
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