Show I Old I A California Mner Who W o Says tJ ii He Has i Destroyed Over Four FOUl Thousand Bars in Memory of His Wife and Child T of or mountains JQ over t the irin Us has led leda f h tt rn forty yeu I early ulf MIt cn n a he vowed jeW to 10 eat et n O ir m U sever ever v r to live In to a ai III k to a man n fl and never to tori To 10 VV j i rr cr drop of When he b bIJ i HJ I u other ri communicate be does oe U Lt by IJ Ut tied around his hish carries I Ute 1 Itt tE he be v inter id d summer he wander 1 I h Ill h nUl avoiding av the thO t chanc pro i yr ir 1 i th miners and the hunters hunter 1 j ow fW against womankind nd and andi I 11 j i it 1 sex ex W Wi Ie 4 i Idl ii talk to the th gentler Sr Ji Ore Or a year he ho j L i n ri F his Ms bear hides buys i uit Ui f clothes which he ht allows allow j vii of or beans aM t and hn his small supply I m Th n ho ht h goes g on to t the th next town and sta SOY all an at UI rn mM old ok mm f f hi wife In the th quaint ground grund where whre many a man aan manI ill with wi his bis hi short sad and a a ar aI II I r i ani nd the good priests ts nut put on 00 oni I i un julY Ma May God have bave m mercy rcy J hi hN i ul ui and the omy mity name nam they t r th ih wanderer Before any one o Jd k nril g old Uld Grimly ly whose other name i I I n forgotten n goes go back to 10 his i v w hunting hunt Ins hi his enemy i wr r I found Win him him an old man rwan with black hair and alert blue i 1 Y I l but strong and nd glad to ex e x xII II ii w words with a fellow feHo human I think tink I am m a bit cracked I Ii If Id d i k ki i whether Its m me rack crack f r P i m When a man m n talks i forty 1 I 11 stars start at night and bills tUlis ir If he comes cou to know things i ik h i ht time t i I l nt ot talk about bo t Anyway I Il n l ii gluing gf to be a better man I II I In 1 to tU any on one e and I aint wasted 1 i nging around and or f r ft rI It 1 t I ot t 1 drunk for forty fO f years and I id tl l 1 a H good deal d Story that day It wa was I oj i Il ii in iu town 11 Id i ml 1 look forward with Jr 11 t mini hum home h m fi hv miles in the sno snow v vin rip saws saw It was wa wat wasu ji in lIl ti Mind WHId blowing u 11 t ift r the drought coUChi and ami there b re 11 t mast t and th tl the bears and ad andi h i u i n 1 any M flY mil mai h i me ame i right MI UI to 10 the h hM houses se es t tI f v fi vI I i and ind t i were wre sro 0 fierce ce they would I k I lit K K KI flY i tine line Some had been en kUi d dI I Zt ih im ien the snow came deep for forr or h r I much for the bears bara b ars to tu tul toI I M l 1 mf W jf never did like it t over ov there t u mi nd n j S nm 1 She was as dead afraid of ot n i ing The rattlers and In Ini Indi mI I I di I d i t wild lid things that got ROt out in inin InU U in hilL and holl half halt the night 11 v WI i flY Illy the kid with her and 1 Id Idt d di i 1 i t K g t and hang hing around every t c c n i i Kt gt I and Id hardly ever take ju e a woman is in the way Vh h hl n I I tame fame riding nn nf n the tho road that i 11 mm gi I 1 C that there was no light in InOw Ow tt hJ hut but it was late and tl ink I I ht 1 b gone to bed There te was wa as 11 tg r pine and the are re lighted un on ont u ug g t d M al I but I 1 wondered when hen I got gotT gotI T I ii 1 lumen ugh and see set tie rite door was wa w open o n i P ki In i let t like and In the corner orner i 9 nr IW Ill wife and somebody with wilh her herme So what lilt me mi U II the floor or ir I r up i if it I says you see lee I was vas vasi as i n st CuSS tI S that ever got licked i i 1 nt nl in ill and I heard l ard a queer fleer sound lound aKl t li Ii n ti I l w wa i IS jn just t going to fire lire oft my gun wl 1111 h n I h ward hard ard a growl and I sW saw W it itt Vl i r i a i t man on the HOOT floor but a big biz t iz II growled low and nd looked at 7 ml Di kf kIlt r his ugly h ad d rolling and andu u 11 h ti II t to neak ont nut b b behind me mei II i n ih li in t milk a go so of it for I got m H il wa a is too hea heavy with eating to tor r r tight light and it was wa warm in the room roomI i I 1 hil m my wife un Up and she just justS S iid 1 lir yes eyes and the she smiled in my m fI and dd aid low like and andt t n li he gave an a shiver w A shut her bur eyes t lu h t ever 1 said kI anything since i 11 t thin at all I knew there was as no noL L 1 king for the kM Only Bears I 1 have hat b en bears beam ever e ar since and an nd l Im m rn going ging ing to kill Mil them th att II teng Ieng len an II asS S r f J i 1 I J have bave no call c ll any tin t 11 Is in III the world but the bears bean ad nu will never nen r be quits They know it They y used to fight and nd they used to toI I I 4 a 3 but now they sever never h have ve time for tor torI I anything but just to g get t a as tar away y a as asI I f ever they know horn You Yue know lm w things Just Juat tell uti me how they know they cant be killed l around Lake any more its It government ln reservation now and its It italy the tAe second Ond fI year Inside In the reser re are young cubs and cubs cube Just Jt e around Strawberry I have only found rund one cub this summer Hummer How is it They never used to toy lay ay up around ElInore The Tha Th cattlemen dont like Ilk the reservation because t all aft the ue wild things have doub doubted ld ted since they have a quiet place ilace to breed breedIn br brin In It and when they t get Wg big out they come and then they tat the cattle c and the got men dont Uke ut It IL I They want m me to kill km liona too Now I have ba ve no grudge against t the lions not Pet Keen It out from coin under the trees treet at night and dont give ve them a chance to jump on me nu The coyotes M and anti such uch they have hav Just julit a IU as much a call to make R It living as asbe the lAte stockmen They do it Just the th same The stockmen Mock en skin akin the cattle and anti the f folks they the sell to and the lions and coy coyotes coyotes otes tes they skin the cattle and its alt all turn The Big JUg Fight There rhet e is one oue b Dear bear ar that been heen coming h here r every summer for nineteen years ye rs I 1 IK HH K 11 going coins to meet that bear some day and md andI I hope it will be pretty soon for Im got get getting Wig ting old and ami not mo so spry as I 1 used to tob tobe tobe b be Them Pagers angers Yea Yell he chewed thawed theta them otto oft He pretty nigh done for me b bt t led God Almighty Knew I ready to go goh home h me yet et U It 1 t takes lots Jots of knocks k to tomake tom tomake make m anything worth having out of a ordinary cuss C like me IRe I am willing flUng for f r Him Bim to keep on R n hammering Just as long longa longas a as its any use n nd Im Jm m glad he think thinks its worth wh while t He lIe does doeR it because my wIts wife at him I guess The tune time j I met the bear that got my myne Anders ne was wu once in the winter I had hadn been n having a sleeping on the ground and ana I had found a house lOuse It was wasa wasI a shanty that some home had mad It out of stones the thc chimney was all stones and the rest of the house hou e was logs and it had been deserted for a long Ion time When I J found it I Mild to myself that I Ill Id d make it tit lit to lie He hi n and ted Id stay there some tunes lIUS t when I 1 was up op that way It wa wati pretty near nur dark 1 found it toni and there any door oo but t 1 I gut some wood rU in and wade made a fire fl and ana r roasted o some SOaK bear meat and when I had hud bad h my supPer I went off ott to sleep f on the Jour Hour by the tire lIre Next thing I know tin th was some ome something something thing noting nOo no ing in ray my m face nd ml I opened my eyes and an looked right to ato the little red eyes eye of a big bear and I any gun CUR heady handy I guess the bear be knew it alt all allright right for tor he sort of growled an as if he was laughing and he put his pa pee v OH on my atom stomach ach h and sad begun to walk on me tue and he SR light 1 lay a minute to make him think I was not going f to put up upa a fight and then I quick as tUI a flash grabbed a astick astick stick out of the fire tire that was burning and andI I 1 kecI kad into the bears beara face fact It made him wild and he howled bowled and got oft off me and andT andI T I had a chance to get my knife out be before before before fore be lie got ot back at me and then I took him Jim on the blade blado of it Then he was mad and he lIe begun to fight tight for sure We e rolled roiled t tover over and aDd over on he floor be he was try trying tryIng trying ing to get a bId hald and I dug my knite into him hint every time tim h he gave pe me rae a chance A Abear Abear Abear bear is the toughest t thing t that lives Jives and anti you vou cant kill him only onh in a few F oLe oLeAt At last I t hit him in ht tIe the eyes but the blade was not long lone enough h to t do him any fatal harm bann Then he turned around and I Ibe he be run howling bowling and I guess he is l the only nitty bear I over ever tackled and let get getaway g getaway t away from front me Ill see him hInt again some som someday day near enough to get a shot at him That was nine years ago 80 and h hea s been coming oming up ever since hut but he never t tops stops to say M hello belie to me When he was gone goneI I found that he had bad chewed my fingers finers some BOrne ble bleT bleI T I s am m going to have an overcoat this year though I am getting old and God Almighty finished with me yet Ill be glad when he is Nobody else could have made anything out of me Ill b blad be bellId lad when hes he done with the hammer hemmer hammering log ing and I guese X M ry and the kid will be clad to see He t too HELEN GREY |