We play poker with a guy whose name is Gabriel Hayes. Of coarse we call him Gabby, you know, just like the old western sidekick. Well anyway, we were over at his house one evening playing some seven card stud when the conversation some how got around to bears. Gabby had a cabin up in New Mexico close to Red River and he was telling of a time when he barely escaped a bear by climbing a tree. Well, Jingle Bob called him a wuss and Gabby took a little offense to it. They got into it , jawing at each other and some where in the debate Jingle said he wouldn't even have to have a gun to hunt bear. He could get one with a stick. Well, I ducked my head and grimaced because I knew very well what was coming. Sure enough Gabby bet Jingle $100 that he wouldn't hunt bear with a stick and before anyone could slap a hand over Jingle's mouth he accepted the challenge.
So one Friday they loaded up a few supplies that would do them for the weekend and they took off to Gabby's cabin. When they got there it was late so they got everything inside , lit the fireplace , opened up some pork&beans and a tall coors and settled down for the night.
The next morning bright and early Gabby made them some scrabbled eggs , bacon and a big pot of boiled coffee and afetr they ate Gabby went over to his bed reached under it and retrieved a wooden baseball bat and handed it to Jingle and showed him the door. Before he left Gabby said,
" Jingle , why don't we quit this nonsense and you give me a twenty dollar bill and we'll tell the others you never found a bear and let it go. " he then put his hand on Jingle's shoulder and said, " This is crazy . Those bears are dangerous "
Jingle shrudged Gabby's hand off his shoulder and said, " I ain't never
quelched ona bet , and I don't intend to do it now." and walked out into the woods.
Sure enough Jingle didn't get a half a mile from the cabin when he did the worse thing anyone could possibly do with a bear. He walked right in between A mother bear and her cub. Well, right away Jingle saw that that bat in his hand was no match for the power of the momma bear and took off running.
The bear was right after him and gaining fast. When Jingle got to the clearing in front of the cabin started hollaring for Gabby to open the door . Gabby looked out and saw the perdicament Jingle was in and went over and opened the door just as Jingle and the bear got there. There was a rock in the ground just before you entered the cabin and Jingle tripped on it and fell face first to the ground. That bear was chasing Jingle so fast that he just ran over him and into the cabin . Gabby thinking the first that would enter would be Jingle slammed the door as soon as the bear was inside.
Jingle heard all this clanging , banging and screaming and he went over to the cabin window and hollared , " Gabby ! You skin that one and I'll go get a nother one!" LOL
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