The Coconino sun., February 21, 1903, Page 5, Image 5

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( lb nIa" he was mighty glad h
J didn't have any gun, or he'd a
felt all hig life as if the mark of Cain
was branded onto his brow. So he told
me," said the man from the J.nob
country to a New YorkSunman. "The
way it came about, (ill had been talkin'
consider'ble for quite a spell, and I up
and snjs, nfter while:
" 'Oil,' I cays, 'ain't there-quiteapas-sll
o' lyin' done about bear up your
way?' I Gays.
" 'Cause Gil lives nigh the headwa
ters, and us, folks don't git to go that
part o' the Knob country very often.
Consequence is that thethings we hear
from there every now and then, per
tick'ly when Oil comes down and drops
in on us o er to the Eddy, 'pears to me
runs pretty nigh to bein' amazin'. So
I says to Oil:
" 'Ain't there quite a pass Jl o lyin
done about benrs upyourway?'li.
" 'I gues mebbe you'd think so.'
says Oil, 'if you'd ever hear Jehielorold
. Jorum, or even Eli's Sam git to goin'
about 'em some fine day,' Fays Oil.
'Lyin'! I should say sol And it's a
shame, too! There ain't no sort o'
need o' lyin' about, bears.' ays he.
"'Ilears 1 tolcr'ble 'smart some
times, though, up your way, ain't
they?' savfi I.
"'A trifle,' fays Oil, sort o careless
like. 'Jest n trifle, I take it,' snjshe.
"Then I didn't fay no more, but
turned to Reuben and says that thine
was. a leetle backward this sprint?
wasn't they? .Tiif-t as if I'didn't rare
anything more aluiut Oil or his head
water bears, aivl was goin to argue
things more substantial, knowin' that
Oil wnrn't never goin' to let me.offthnt
way. tbonc'i '(''t its well as I knowed
he was ettin' there on the shoe box
chawin' borried tobacco.
"Reuben waR girt in' all ready to say
sometliln' about IHng-s bein' back
warder thi nring than he had knowed
'em to be in 40 year, and then mention
a tevr spring that come toler'ble nich
bein' ns backward as this. Tin. when Oil
he shoves- his hat to the back of his
head and says:
" 'Smart !' he says. 'Headwaters
bear5 tmart? Why!' he says, 'don't
you mind that un that played It so
smart, on me last nring? Don't you
mind that un. Dan'l!' soys he.
"Reuben wireled so over bein sot
back in his backward springin' thntl
thought at first that he was nimin' to
take Oil by the neck and sbet him and
his bear oft right on the start, bnt he
didn't. He only jest marled a little,
and retted back onto his cheer and tilt
ed it agin the counter.
'"Don't you mind that un, Dan'l?'
says Oil.
"I thunk a minute, nnd then Tasked
Gil if it was the one that had stole the
nine cords, o' bark from him nnd run
it over and piled it up onto Gideon's
slidewny.
"'Was that un the one, Gil?' I says,
and, by cats, Gil never winked or
blinked or looked surprised.
"'No,' he fays, as unmitigated as
could be. 'N'o, Dan'l that un ain't the
one,' he says. 'Isnrcumiented thatun,
don't you mind, nnd made him run the
hull nine cord n' bark back and put It
w,here he found it ' fnjs Oil; and Reu
ben then did everla? in'ly snort, and I
thought sure he was boon' to choke
Gil nnd his bear right off hand, but he
didn't.
" 'Last spring,' says Gil, not waitin
to ask or to be asked any more ques
tions, 'I rolled n bar'l o' pork Into my
cabin, up along fe headwaters, git
tin' ready for bark-neelin'. The bar'l
was chuck full o' nice hunks o' pork,
clear to the chimes, and when I opened
It to git out some o' the pork, a week
or so afterward, dlngbiMcd if as much
as a quarter of it wasn't gone.
'"Some consprned thief orotherhad
sneaked Into he cabin, opened the
bar'l, took out the pork and lugged it
away, after headin' the bar'l upag'in
asr tight and snug as it was when I
rolled it in. Dan'l, I was so 'tarnal
mod that the way I ripped and tore I
bet you could a c-ut chunks o' washin'
blue out o' the airaround that cabin.
" 'After while I sot down to try to
think up who it could be that was
stealln' my pork so sly nnd cunnin'.
And who do you s'pose I thunk of as
more'n likely bein' the ona, Dan'l?'
tays Oil.
" 'Not your pap. Oil,' T ay, wa It?'
and Reuben snorted right out, 'cause
everybody knowed that folks said that
when things turned up mlln' along
the headwaters the first thing folks
done was to go see If them things
hadn't sort o' follered Gil's old man
home durin' the night before. Hut Gil
he said no, he didn't lay it to his pap.
" Tap wasn't In them parts jest
then, Dan'l,' says Gil, 'so I didn't lay
It to pap,' says he. 'No. It was. old bi
that I thunk of.
" 'Old Si was campln' not more'n two
mile from me, and I had myidees about
him. So I jest says that my pork had
stuck to him some way and got out o
my bailiwick.
" 'But it was mebbe a good thing fer
me that I thunk a leetle furder before
goin' to old Si's nnd demandln' my pork
back. I thunk a lettle fun'er, nnd
then I says what ".va I tMnl-in' about?
" 'Old Si would quick enough fas
ten on to the pork nil rlgbt. but he
never would have gumption enough to
head up a bar'l like that bar'l was bead
ed, after doin' of it. 'Tain'told SI,' I
says.
" 'So I jest sot down and thunk that
the best way to find nut who the smart
thief wns would be fer me to hide and
watch for him, and so I did.
"'The second day o watchln', Dan'l.
I see a big bear coire sloucbin' out
of the brush nigh to the cabin, and
there Ihndn'tnogun! Me, livin' along
the headwaters, knouin' the head
waters as to bear, and bein there in
the woods without n gun! T was mad
nnd I was sorry, fori thr'M I incut
as well as not gather in a nice lot o'
bear while I was watcliin' to pre who
stole my pork, nnd there I didn't have
no gun.
" 'I was jest on the pint o' gittin"
up and pilch! n' into he benr anv how,
when I happened to think that if the
pork thief came along he'd more than
likely hate n gun. and that of course
he'd knock oer the bear, fo that when
1 jumped out and took the coiiKirncl
thief by the neck while he was loadin'
himself with my pork ng'in. I'd have a
nice fat bear nnd a good pelt,, besides
glttin' the pork thief. So I laid low
and said nothin'.
" 'The bear, he nosed around a spell,
and then dim one o'the corner poles
o' the cabin to the roof, edged along
to the chimlv, and then let himself
down the chimlv riht into the cabin.
I didn't Riisniclon the bear, even then,
Dnn'l,' say Oil, 'but I sneaked up to the
winder and peeked thro-h-
" 'Sny, you cruld a tumbled me over
with a chippy bird's feather, I was so
flabbergasted over wbnt T FeenI The
bear was a workin' at the pork bar'l,
and a good deal quicker than I could
a done it myself be unbended tbrt
bar'l! Yes, sir, Dan'l! Took off the
top boon and lifted out the head o'
the bar'l I
" 'Then the benr took out two nice
hunks of pork, lie sot there-nnd ent
them while T was lookin' at him. Then
he licked his paws and his chops, took
ant nnothcr hunk o' pork, laid it on
the floor, headed up the bar'l ns slick
is n boss cooper could n done It, took
the hunk o' pork under b's nnn. skun
jp the cbimly like n monkey, dropped
to the ground ns easy r's nothin'. and
trotted off into the lt'ruli, grinnin
znough to mnke a feller crary, before
could fiv boo!
" 'Dan'l.' says Gil, 'th'cnl was glad I
Hdn't have no gun. If I'd a killed that
benr,' says he. 'I'd a felt nil mv life as
f the mark o' Cain was branded onto
my brow!' says be.
"And jest as mild as could be. Reuben
without ever teeterln' his chair level,
ays to Gil:
" 'Don't knaw but what you mawt as
well have the mark o' Cain on your
jrow. says he, 'ns to have Ananias nnd
5apphiry stamped all over you plainer
ban the brands on an army mule! ' says
Reuben.
"I didn't say nothing, but jest thunk
what kind o' things it must be that
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movvt be able to tell about headwaters
bears when they got to goin'."
Sent to Church Pnnlikmest.
A group of army officers was talking
over experiences at the Grand hotel
one evening lately. There waMalson
naval oilicer and two or three Chilians
In the group. The naval oflicer had
told of going to sleep in church at
Annapolis, dreaming thntbc was fall
ing out of n buggy, and awakening to
find that his dream came near enough
the truth to net him ten demerit murks.
"That makes me think of an episode
at one of the western army postb some
years ago," said V. C. Stevens of Oma
ha, one cf the ci iliuns. "I was not one
of the victims, but Ihnd the story from
one of them. The pnptnin at this post
was n religious man. nnd eiery Sunday
he sent nil the prisoners in the guard
room to church. The chaplain was
very long-winded, and the prisoners
rebelled. They finally succeeded in
getting a. board of investigation to
look Into the matter. The board de
cided, after due intestigntion, that this
part of the punishment was not allow
able, in that it was not only 'unusual,'
but also 'cruel. That will do for a
civilian," laughed the officers, and two
of them left the hotel for the theater,
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