A CAPITAL STORY.
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The last New ork SPIRIT OF the lines mas
an admirable story called THE Big Bear Of Ar
kansas" 1t is rather TOO long for a weekly pa
per- or we would copy it. We take fragment
sho wing that small mosquitoes would be "nO
use in Arkansaw," and setting forth the merits
of a certain dog:


"Where did ak that happen2" asked cyni-
cal looking hoosier.


Happen happened in Arkansaw; where
else could it have hapened, but in the creation
State. the finishing up country; a State where
the sHe runs down to the centre of the 'arth, and
government gives you title TO every inch OF 1t.
Then its airs, just breaths them, and they will
make you snort like a horse. LIS State with
out fault, it is"


Excepting mosquitoes" cried the hoosier.


"Well, stranger except them for 1t ar a fact
that they rather enormous, and Go push them
selves in somewhat troublesome But, stranger.
they never stick twice in the place, and
give them fair chance for few months, and
you will get as much above them as an aIIiga-
Tor. They can't hurt my feelings for they lay
under the skin, and never knew but one case
Of injury resulting from them, and that was a
Yankee; and they take worse to foreigners any
how than they do to natives. But the way they
used that fellow up! first they punched him un-
Ill be swelled up and busted, then he supPer-a-
ted. as the doctor called it, until he was as raw
as beef; then he took steamboat and lett the



quItoes at heart that know Of. But mosquitoes
is natur, and l never find fault with her; if they
ar large, Arkansaw is large, her varmnts ar
large, her trees ar large, and small mosquItoe
would be of no more IN Aarkansaw than
preaching in a cane-brake."


This knock down argument in favor OF big
mosquitoes used the hoosier up, and the logIcian
started on a new track. to explain how numerous
bear were in his "diggings," where he repre-
sentt them to be e''about as plenty as blackber-
ries. and little plentifuller."


Upon the utterance of this assertion, limid
little man near me inquired II the bear IN Ar
kansaw ever attacked the settlers in numbers.


No" said our hero warming with the sub
ject, mo. stranger for you IL aln't the natur
Of bar to go in droVes, but the way they squan-
der about in pairs and sing le ones is edIfylng.-
And then the way hunt them-the old black
rascals know the crack of my gun as we'll as
they know pigs squeaking. They grow thin
in our parts, it frigntens them so, and they do
take the noise dreadfulIy, poor things. That
gun of mine is perfect epidemic among bur
if not watched closely. it will go off us quick on
a warm scent as my dog BowIe-knife will, and
then that dog. whew why the fellow thinks that
The world is full of bar, he finds them so easy.
It's lucky he don't talk as we'll as think, for with
his natural modesty, if he should suddenly learn
how much he is acknowledged to be ahead of
all other dogs in the universe, he would be as
toniShed to death in two minutes"


We have only room now for his account of
the fa:ness Of the varmints and OF the soil OF the
creation State-where "planting is dangerous"


What season of The year do your hunts take
place2" inquired gentlemanly foreigner. who, |
from some peculiarities of his baggage, [ sus-
pected to be an Englishman on some hunting
expedition, probably, at the foot of the Rocky
Mountains.


The season for bar hunting, stranger" said
the man Of Arkansaw, SIS generally all the year
round. and the hunts take place about regular.
read In history that varnns have their fat
season. and their lean season. That is not the
case in Arkansaw. feeding as they do upon The |
Sp6nLeRGclOWS productions Of the sIle, they have
one continued fat season the year round-though
In winter things in this way is rather more grea
sy than in summer, | must admit For this rea-
son bar with US run In warm weather. In winter |
they only wadde.-Fat, fat its an enemy TO !
speed-t tames every thing that has plenty of it.
have seen wild turkies. from its influence. us
gentle as chickens Run bar in his fat condi-
tlon and the way it improves the critter for eat
ing is amazing; it sort ofmixes the lie up with
the meat until you can't tell tother from which |
I've done this often.


81 fecolect one pretty morning in particular,
OF putting old he fellow on the stretch and
considering the weight he carried he run we'll |
But the dogs tired him down. and when
came up with him wasn't he in a beautiful sweat
y might say fever; and then to see his tongue
sticking out Of his mouth feet, and his sides
sinking and opening like a bellows, and his
checks so fat he couldn't look cross In this fix
OIazed at him, and pitch me naked into briar
patch IT the steam didn't come out of the bullet
mole ten foot in straight line. The fellow. l
reckon was made on the high pressure system,
and the lead sort OF burst his bier"


ne column Of Steam was rather curious. or
else the bear must have been aoarn" observed
the foreigner with laugh


stranger, as you observe. that bar was warm,
ana the blowing off of the steam show'd it, and
also how hard the varmint had been run Il
nave no doubt if he had kept on two miles fur
'her his lnsldes would have been stewed and
eApFc' 10 meet with varmint yet OF extra bot