The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1842-08-09
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A BEAR AND CuRS

I A BEAR AND CUBS
! good Story has lately been published Of Sc
we're fright which worthy gentleman met with
once, IN the forests of ". H. 1t runs thus:
I During the early years OF the existence OF
dartmouth College, an excellent and learned but.
unfortunately, near sighted professor, attached to
that venerable institution was accustomed to re-
create himself very early every morning, by long
perambulaiions through the country.
One morning he had take for his solitary walk
new and circuitous route. Wandering into the
forest from the main road he essayed to traverse
the entire section OF the woods and came ont On a
new and rather unfrequented path which yvouId.
however, lead him direct to the college buiIdingu
! Abstrac:ed as he generally was and thinking of
the classic heroes of antiquity he was but little
prepared for shock that awaited him. He had
come to kind of clearing, when 10 at some or
~ rods distance, what should meet his eve bur an
enormous bear, with several cubs! This not only
put to precipitate flight his splendid dav dreams
with all the gods and goddesses of the Pantheon in
his train, but the professor himself who took to
his legs, and made tracts towards home with such
CELEBRITY, that had the bear contemplated making n
breakfast of him, she would doubtless have been
disappointed There was no wonder he run; for
all the stories he heard of Bruins fe,ocitv. es
peciaily in the of female encuTsibered with
young, fitted before his mind and by the time he
reached the college, he all perspiration and so
out of breath that all he could utter was "a bear
and cubs bear and cubsp
Alter his fright had subsidized, and the story was
iuiiy understood, what din of preparation there
WAS for bear campaign Students, professors.
president, and all, thrsug for martial distinction
IN the ware fare about TO be undertaken, armed
themselves so extensively, that, let alone bear IL
d le" CUBS, score or two of Indians would have
$1,000 slim ch ance before them. Every thing in
the shape of an offensive weapon was in rsouisi.
uon three or four old muskets, some eiget or ten
pitehforks an old rung of wagon, axes, l.oes.and
IN fact, for want of better arms and accoutreuen,s
the youngest of the warriors demolished an entire
ran tence, from which they prepared themselves
for the contemplated fun. The march through the
woods was a cautious one--a of an Indian lie:
for apprehensiVe that too much stir would induce
the enemy to change quarters, strategcm in the
mode of attack was deemed necessary. The calcu
lation was to circumvent her, and attacking her at
all points, compel her to surrender
A length the advanced guard reached the afors
said clearing, and the worthy professor, who had
hardly been able to contain himself for the uromi
nenee he bore in the periious enterprise, was OBJ
err will suppose it occasioned by his unwiIl-
lngness to come very close eontiguity with his
formidable foes No such thing. No faar of the
kind came him. The enemy vas in a situa
ton to offer resistance, for the bear and cubs
turned ont TO be the stunps of large and seuerat
s'naH trees aOhich had been burnt ODer 5y the mood.
cztttsrs!H
The professor could hardly believe his eyes, and
he would rather have faced hvana than bava
endured the laugh with which the woods rang
again and again. The professors played off their
jokes and iibes upon him, and the youngsters con-
sIdering themselves without the pale of discipline
had ample revenge for all the Greek and Latin he
inflicted on them. They laid on their sarcastic
taunts numerically.
Some days after the bear hunt, the professor who
figured largely in it, received hit in a manner
but little exp ected. He was occurring class on
the passions, requiring of each student some out
ward exhibition of the various emotions which agi
tate the human breast thus, love, hatred jealousy,
revenge, grief, &c successiv6iy depicted. AT
length it TO Sam Burtons turn to depict fear.
Now Sam loved mischief far better than he did his
books, and one might well have looked for sub
lime sentiments from the mouth of merry Andrew
as TO have supposed that Sam would let slip such
an opportunity for making sport. He hestated al
moment after the question was PUT, but those who
knew him best, thought that something extra was
coming Assuming all the terror his counter
ance capable of expressing, and rushing for
ward headlong through the room fast as mis- legs
could carry him he screamed at the top of his lungs
ga bear and cubs bear and cubs! a bear and
cubsl' The students of course all convulsed
with laughter and all that was done that afternoon
in the way of the passions, was depicting mIrrh on
the widest and broadcast principle, that IS, mouths
stretched open from to Sam was publicly
reprmanded for his INDIGENOUS conduct -JHednt-
lion.
A FABLE AND A MORAL.
Two boys having been dressed IN their holiday