Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1880 — Difference Between Bacon and Bear Meat. [ARTICLE]

Difference Between Bacon and Bear Meat.

A showman, whose fortune is a bear, surprised hr nightfall on the road asked a farmer in Maaaegrass, a village of Lozere county, to give him bed and board for the night, bight of the bear made the farmer hesitate, but the man made such earnest appeals the farmer at last consented, and moving a magnificent hog, which had just reached the height of iat perfection, from sty to barn, he lodged bruin in the sty. During the night three thieves, who had long been waiting for the hogto reach the desired plumpness, determined to execute their design. The sty door was deftly opened, one ot the thieves entered, and hearing a hoarse grunt, said to his accomplice. “The hog is still here!” and he went to seize the hog by the jowl to prevent i*s hue and cry. Bruin, sare-headed by having his night’s rest broken, and this attempt to have gag law put on him, seized the intruder in both paws and gave him such a hug that all his ribs were broken and the breath of life expelled. The second thief, unablo to understand the inaction of his ring leader, steadily advanced in order to see what was doing and to hasten the hog’s departure. The instant he got within the bear’s reach bruin gave him a blow with his paw on his temple and sent him reeling to the door. The third thief now saw that the hog was —was a ghost, or Old Nick, or something worse,and in sheer tright stood transfixed, unable to budge or to do anything but yell,“fire! murder! murder! murder! fire! murder!” which he did with such a will that farmer and showman, with lights, were soon on the spot to pick up the dead rogue and to swaddle the stunned and the scared rogue with ropes and tie him in the barn till daybreak, when they were carried to jail.— ls. O.Picayune , Parte Letter.