Show playing horse horsa rith a bear f ii aaroin lerom to the gold golden en luio lulo I 1 once there was a man whose life we hrdi hadj had been spent in we west BL nia hla father and mother moved from ner Ne i ic I 1 to michigan when he was va a baby and settled six miles from any neighbor but before the A farm rm was al ail all I 1 cleared other settlers came and the family moved on don dont it want to be crowded the old man said I 1 1 I heard a rifle and an axe that mine yesterday and he went farther and farther west every year till by the thed thew boy boyem im telling you of was a grown up man they had got clear to the west part of oregon on the pacific coast and as the old oid man could nIt move move west any farther with without out getting into the ocean and neighbors had moved within two miles of him he gave it up went velli I 1 spose there never was a bear behr so astonished since the pair saved from the flood stepped out of noahs ark and found the whole world drowned he had never had bad a ride lore before and want one now but the tho esit cant was going so fast that he dardat jubo juto plout wad and so id he bd jut just dungon ciu clu lu ngon and looked from one ond side to the oilier and fairly howled as the cardi carti dumped over dver the roots and stones Ja james had been to aty oty c ity once anu seen been the street cart card cars ra and d when he found he had hail the thid bear it caught caugh ti tha of the thing thin madd him jin laugh f i when the bear soared b once he back all full inside take the net car andt when the beh bear gave W a terrific growl lie lle said sald aibe up 0 in front plea piea seland aud and dont grumble jr able this is a throb through 64 ear car olt vit up ther there till annd aund arid he buckled down to it land and ran j just ut the way the car ear drivers make the I 1 horses do when they are late and rind pretend they donic dont see gee a little boy cro brooking oking his finger for em to stop on the crossing the I 1 the bottom part of the catt cart rattled ilik like a peddlers wagon magon on oh the pavement the wt as and the gun bounced onto the beards beams loes ides and he looked las lai aa if he know khow which wits was the worst his mad or his scare I 1 down dow the stee steep p hill james jamea ran straight for the coiner corner of his log house he ie had his plans all made and aid ashe lae jae turned the he ran the cart g against a log and tipped lipped it night right beey beef over bottom side up with master alaster bear on the under sit side g it his hist other hifle rifle hung over the door in iff the house and he grabbed it down hia hla id a hurry anid arid as the bear stuck his bis his ils head from under the cart he shot him r ight right between the eyes saying thlire Thi there pre ire that settles the question I 1 I 1 what question asked his wife who camu came running out to td see what irbit the noise meant chy why the question wh whether etherl etheri I 1 had caught a bear arho had caught 1 1 1 mo fae mercy she sald said as she saw the dead bear then he told he her hen the tho story stony and kissed hissed him and n laughed and cued at the same time and he be had an overcoat made madei of the skin to remember the time when ghen i nhe he gave abear a bear a free ride kide |