HOW WOULD SAL LOOK.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1181, 11 October 1882, Page 2

HOW WOULD SAL LOOK.

Not long ago a man in Carson, got married and started for California with his young wife. His fathor bade him good-bye, and gave him the parental blessing. 'My son,' said tha aged sire, shaking with emotion, <fee., ' remember those words, if you never see me again : Never go into a place where you would not take your wife.' One day the old man went down to visit them. He proposed abear hunt, and they were fortunate enough in tracking a grizzly in his lair among some of the boulders in the cbapparal. As the two approached, the bear roused up and sent forth a growl of defiance which shook the tree. 'Go in there and kill'im/ said the old man excitedly. ' Count me out,' said the son. ♦ Have I crossed the seas and settled in America to raise a coward f shouted the father, brandishing his gun. ' I recollect your advice when I left Carson,' was tho reply. ' Did'nt you tell me never to go where I couldn't take my wife 1 Now, how would Sal look in there with that bear.' The old man clasped his dutiful sou to his bosom, aud as the bear issued forth, exclaimed : ' Speaking of Sally, let us hasten home ; our prolonged absence might cause her needless alarm.' In about fifteen minutes they had reached the ranch, the old man a little ahead, and the distance was four miles.