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Then the dogs exploded outside, probably at some henroost-robbing opossum, and had a chevy through the cocos till they tree'd their game, and bayed it to their hearts' content. Then something else exploded and I do not deny it set me more aghast than I had been for many a day exploded, I say, under the window, with a shriek of Hut-hut-tut-tut, hut-tut, such as I hope never to hear again.
Nothing outside that confounded boat and those two yapping before me like a couple of mean mongrels at a tree'd thief. Yap! yap! 'What you doing here? You're a fine sort! Too much of a bloomin' gentleman to put your hand to it. Come out of your trance, did you? To sneak in? Did you? Yap! yap! 'You ain't fit to live! Yap! yap! Two of them together trying to out-bark each other.
An' he done it! I stayed with 'm, but let me tell you I was plumb tuckered by the time the bear tree'd. "They ain't no stoppin' that man. He ain't afraid of nothin'. Last fall, before the freeze-up, him an' me was headin' for camp about twilight. I was clean shot out ptarmigan an' he had one cartridge left. An' the dawgs tree'd a she grizzly. Small one.
"'Waiter? "'Sir. "'Galls don't like to be tree'd here of a mornin' do they? "'Sir. "'It's usual for the ladies, sais I, 'to be together in the airly part of the forenoon here, ain't it, afore the gentlemen jine them? "'Yes, Sir. "'It puts me in mind, sais I, 'of the old seals down to Sable Island you know where Sable Isle is, don't you? "'Yes, Sir, it's in the cathedral down here.
As darkness came on, the form of the bear became indistinct and shadowy; and the captain's eyes waxed heavy, from constant staring and fatigue, so that at length bruin seemed, to the alarmed fancy of the tree'd mariner, to be twice the size of an elephant.
"Old Thunder", a big black dog of no particular breed, gave a meaning look at his master, and started up the ridge, followed by several smaller dogs. Soon Bob heard from the hillside the "hy-yi-hi, whomp, whomp, whomp!" of old Thunder, and the yop-yop-yopping of the smaller fry they had tree'd a 'possum. Bob threw himself on the grass, and pretended to be asleep.
"He's in here, boys; we've tree'd the 'coon," laughingly exclaimed one of the ruffians. "Let's after him." Tearing off the remainder of the boards, one or two entered, opened the door from the inside, and gave admission to the rest. Mr. Ellis mounted to the second story, followed by his pursuers; on he went, until he reached the attic, from which a ladder led to the roof.
In Texas it is common enough; and stories are related of many a redoubtable Texan hunter having been "tree'd" that is, forced to take shelter in a tree from a band of peccaries, whose rage he may have provoked while wandering in their haunts, and too recklessly making use of his rifle.
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