Tutt who makes Bowlaigs captive; Dave rounds Bowlaigs up in
his infancy one time when he's pesterin' about over in the foothills of
the Floridas lookin' for blacktail deer. Dave meets up with Bowlaigs
an' the latter's mother who's out, evident, on a scout for grub.
Bowlaig's mother has jest upturned a rotten pine-log to give little
Bowlaigs a chance to rustle some of these yere egreegious white worms
which looks like bald catapillars, that a-way, when all at once around
a p'int of rocks Dave heaves in view. This parent of Bowlaigs is as
besotted about her son as many hooman mothers; for while Bowlaigs
stands almost as high as she does an' weighs clost onto two hundred
pounds, the mother b'ar still has the idee tangled up in her
intelligence that Bowlaigs is that small an' he'pless, day-old kittens
is se'f-sustainin' citizens by compar'son to him. Actin' on these yere
errors, Bowlaig's mother the moment she glimpses Dave grabs young
Bowlaigs by the scruff of the neck an' goes caperin' off up hill with
him. An' to give that parent b'ar full credit, she's gettin' along all
right an' conductin' herse'f as though Bowlaigs don't heft no more than
one of them gooseha'r pillows, when, accidental, she bats pore Bowlaigs
ag'in the bole of a tree--him hangin' outen her mouth about three
foot--an' while the collision shakes that monarch of the forest some,
Bowlaigs gets knocked free of her grip an' goes rollin' down the
mountain-side ag'in like a sack of bran. It puts quite a crimp in
Bowlaigs. The mother b'ar, full of s'licitoode to save her offspring
turns, an' charges Dave; tharupon Dave downs her, an' young Bowlaigs
becomes a orphan an' a pris'ner on the spot.

"Followin' the demise of Bowlaig's mother, Dave sort o' feels
reesponsible for the cub's bringin' up an' he ties him hand an' foot,
an' after peelin' the pelt from the old mother b'ar, packs the entire
outfit into camp. Dave's pony protests with green eyes ag'in carryin'
sech a freight, but Dave has his way as he usually does with everything
except Tucson Jennie.

"At first Dave allows he'll let Bowlaigs live with him a whole lot an'
keep him ontil he grows up, an' construct a pet of him. But as I more
than once makes plain, Dave proposes but Tucson Jennie disposes; an' so
it befalls that on the third day after the cub takes up his residence
with her an' Dave, Jennie arms herse'f with a broom an' harasses the
onfortunate Bowlaigs from her wickeyup. Jennie decl