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Updated: June 14, 2025
"Then I don't want ever to see 'em or what's left uv 'em. People who built cities whar no water an' trees wuz ought to hev seen 'em perish. Wouldn't me an' Sol look fine trailin' 'roun' among them ruins an' over them deserts? Not a buff'ler, nor a deer, not a b'ar anywhar, an' not a fish; 'cause they ain't even a good big dew fur a fish to swim in.
"Yer must be durned fond o' b'ar-meat ter come up here alone." "I am." "Waal, did yer get yer b'ar?" "No." "Whar's yer critter?" "My horse is down the mountain." "I'll go arter him," said one suspiciously; but Billy answered quickly: "Oh, no, I'll not trouble you; but if I can leave my rifle here, I'll go after him."
"There's the B'ar we'll find in that; that's a bushy-tailed B'ar," and Bonamy joined in the laugh when he realized that the victim in the big trap was nothing but a little skunk. "Next time we'll set the bait higher and not set the trigger so fine." They rubbed their boots with stale meat when they went the rounds, then left the traps for a week.
Tom was still meditating what he should say in reply to this, when Betty herself appeared, calling her father to dinner. "Now, mind, not a word about the robbery," he whispered as he rose, "and we'll make as much as we can of the b'ar." "Yes, not a word about it," thought Tom, "till Betty and I are alone, and then a clean breast and good-bye to her, for ever!"
"If it was the mountain," said Budge Isham, slightly raising his voice, as the courage of the party came back; "none of us would be able to tell of it." "Then it's a rock well, I'm blessed! the thing is moving!" Something was certainly astir in the mass of snow overhead. "I guess it's a angel that has lost its way," submitted Hoe. "More likely it's a grizzly b'ar that's stumbled off the rocks "
Doc was silent for a time, as if he were pondering the matter. "Yo' all shore come a-lookin' for b'ar," he opined, taking the glass which Trask thrust out at him. "But yo' all don't need to be squirmish about Mr. Peth. If he goes to act up, I'll settle his hash." "How's that?" Doc chuckled again. "I know how to handle that low-down trash," he whispered, tragically. "I'd drap somethin' in his tea.
And the woodsman on the height, as he watched them, muttered to himself: "Ef that old b'ar don't look out, the tide's a-goin' to ketch her afore she knows what she's about! Most wish I'd 'a' socked it to her afore she'd got so fur out Jiminy! She's seed her mistake now! The tide's turned."
The range was very short, the rest was a good one, the sight was quick but careful, and the bit of lead went straight to its intended place under the ear of that black bear. He would need no more fish from that time forth, and he pitched heavily forward upon the ground. "Wait a moment, Sile! Never run in on a b'ar till yer sure of him. Reckon he's dead, though. Stand where you are, my boy!"
"I've heard tell," said Long Jim, who also contemplated the prodigy, "that big, chunky, awkward-lookin' things are sometimes ez spry ez you. They say that the Hipperpotamus kin outrun the giraffe across the sands uv Afriky, an' I know from pussonal experience that the bigger an' clumsier a b'ar is the faster he kin make you scoot fur your life.
"Wid dat de yuthers tuck'n made way fer 'im, en ole Brer B'ar he git up on de rock he did, en squot down on he hunkers, en quile he tail und' 'im, en start down.
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