Pueblo chieftain., 1922-03-13

lers who didn't get the chance to hear
that story sure want to have Mr..
Whetzal tell it toyou.
Mr.. Whetzal seemed mighty reliev-
ed upon relating this story, but be-
lieve me 1t didn't relieve me very
| much because l caught myself glanc-
ing sideways and in back of myself
as tho that very bear were some
| where in the vicinity. By this time
it was getting late SO Mr.. Price and
Mr.. Williams and the other fellows
| left for home. Mr. Zimmerman and
Don also went with them. After sitting
around the campfire for a few minu-
I tes we thought we had better turn in
| for the night Marcus had fixed up
a wall of rocks around his sleeping
! place. so as to hold the heat in. Man
| ford was parked near tho fire and
Williams and Sechrist and Tuffy were
pretty well fixed in a tent while young
Berthoff, Salmon, my brother and my
self had our tent. After dressing l
| made a last detour to see II there
might chance to be any bears around
! and in doing SO, | almost stepped on
Mr.. Whetzal who had parked in n lit
| tie ditch between the tent and the fire.
| l almost fell over myself getting out
| of the way. How deceiving the moon
| can be after spooky or bear story
Say didja every try to sleep on herd
| pile of rocks with someone pounding
on a boiler like they was running A
boiler makers party. Whew: man
You We missed half your sweet life
That's the way 1t seemed to me when
1 tried to go to sleep. No sooner would
| l close my eyes than Salmon or Hugh
| would let out with loud snore in
prctense of spelling. and then I'd let
out a holler and wake 'cm up. But
no such luck for then young Bcrthoff
would squirm around and in some
manner or other manage to work his
s,,e- - 10 hrr
Getting some what disguised I
thought and thought for scheme
Oh: at last; had it, Hey you guys
what is that noise? There didn't you
hear it? Ssh: Listen now: be get
ting their attention fixed thus l dozpd
OF in no time and the last ] remcm-
bcr was them guys listenin for Moth
Ing. This is about tn" way I slspi
Little angels floating around with
Mrs. Bear trying to give 'cm har
cut and a few other visions haunted
| me thruout tho evening. ] say eve
ming for in reality that was the only
part OF the night slept. Along about
In the morning. I began dreaming
of Geo. Washington. ! was playing
with him in his little back yard where
there was a whole ORCHARD OF cherry
trees. EspyinE these nc ran back and
got his da@dy's axe and began chop
ping on en- Chop. Chop. chop how
plain 1t sounded. At last he fcllcd n
giant ono and started 20 drag It away.
At this junction sortn camc to lie
from my dreams. Something nearly
ko:Ickcd our tent down and an army
OF men dragged something away. 1
dozc" again. Chop. chop Little GeorGe
was still at It: I though, so let out
a yclp and told him to quit II. but
| I guess ne didn't hear. cause a few
moro chops resounded thru the ntyh:.
awokc then, I distinctly heard tho
1 chop, chop OF an axe Then voices.
PecrinE thru the tent flap. l saw Will
liams In the act of swinging his
and l thoAyht he had gone to bed.
figure and I recognized II as that OF
Manford Ber;hoff. That explained tho
voices. GlancinE towards the fire I
saw an old cottonwood had been
/ chopped down. sa had really heard
n dragging noise and besides they
mus, have chopped it from right over
our tent. My gosh. it's a wonder they
4 hadn't OF tried to chop our tent down.
4 They explained that they were nearly
frozen and had to have wood. But
Il, I guess they weren't satisfied with
three or four trees. SO they spent tho
remainder of the night choppinE tho
tree st,imps and piiinE them In tho
| fire. Between the burning OF tho
trees managed some way or other to
| slip in five or ten minutes of sleep.
Salmon and my brother and young
\ Berthoff, however. seemed to be not
bothered by this incident for they
y, slept peacefully on. At last 8 o'clock
rolled around and all except myself
decided to climb out. Salmon said he