Colonel Crockett, the Texan trailer

BY CHAS. E. LASALLE.
NEW YORK: BEADLE AND ADAMS, PUBLISHERS, 98 WILLIAM STREET.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by BEADLE AND COMPANY, In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
THE TEXAN TRAILER.
I say, stranger, did you see any thing of a confounded big b'ar passing this way?
The question was uttered by Davy Crockett, the renowned bear-killer of Tennessee, as, dashing at full speed through the dense forest, he suddenly emerged into a small clearing, where a big Dutchman sat on a log eating his dinner. The latter stared at the glowing hunter for a moment, and with his mouth crammed so full that he could hardly speak, he said:
Hooh! vat you said?
Did you see a b'ar pass this way, a few minutes ago?
Vat kind of a bear vas he?
A black bear and a regular whopper.
Vas he goin' py hees legs, or vas he flyin' mit his wings?
Crockett stared at the Dutchman, as if meditating whether to bring him to his senses or not by breaking his gun over his head; but there was such an appearance of honesty in his countenance, that, despite his hurry, he paused to exchange a word or two with him.