Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1845-05-07
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spring. which almost jerks me OUT OF my seat.
Though his action fully as great that Of The
VIrgiiIan'a horse, yet some how olher. he did
DOT get over much ground, aud wouldn't keep up.
His fnatenuvres made me feel curious, though /
am, and was then, prac:ced hnrseman. saw
my companion Closing upon The bear. which sud-
denly clverged from The valley up the hill, and
lost sight of both behfd n immense live oak hung
to the very ground with moss In another instant
he had fired two shots IN rapid SUGGEST n. The
idea OF losing my shot entirely, made me desperate,
and refining The horses head up the hill. with all
my strength plunged the spur iuriously into his
Hanks. Three or tour frantic bounds, AID he had
| brushed through the dense moss curtain under the
live oak, and came through the other side with.
In I'VE PAGES OF The OBJECT of his terror the bear,
the lons of which had been broken bv the two
shots. and 1t was swaying lis huge carcass to and
iro, and gaping It's great red mouth with roars
Had my horse been suddenly turned to stone.
he would not have been more rigid than he became
the instant his feet touched the earth. There was
something positively awful in the paralysis of
| fright which seized him. His skin had been rer-
feclly dry, and in a second big drops had started
running off 10 the ground. His legs were set and
stltf--his nostrils prodgousy disended, but mo.
iionless-hIs eyes shot out and fixed in the fasc.
nation of terror upon the hideous object. | was
shocked drove my spurs into him with redoub-
led strength, wrenching al The bit a. the same time
His head felt like rock and onIv slight culver
of the muscles answered the spur. fairly yelled
with rage as struck him over the head with nv
gun barrel. The blow sounded dull and heavy,
but there was no motion, not even of an ear
never felt so strangely in my life. | was fright
ened myself.
At this nslaDt--for oil had passed in an instant,
just as the Virginian was leveling his pistol for
third shot. our attention was arrested bv the quick
succession Of firing, like platoon. fiom The other
side OF the ridge. followed up BY the stunning cla-
NOR, which has only to be heard once to be for
ever remembered-of the Camanche war-whoop!
and then above us the heavy tramp and rush of
troop descending the bill directly towards us!
There was time for deliberaoni The In.
dlans! take care yourself, Keniuckr' hastily ex-
claimed my companion, as lie wheeled his horse
and dashed down The hill for The valley. Cold
comfort that--'take care of myself" indeed.
made one more desperate effort to break the
trance of the vile brute | strobe, then sprang from
his back, ran unoer the dropping moss, stepped up
into the live Oak-the forks of which were not
over three feet from the ground--ran along up one
OF its massive limbs, and had barely time to con.
ceal myself behind dense cluster Of the moss,
when, with deateDing whoopings, "a bronzed aud
feather-bedIzened crew Of some twenty Canaan
ches swept into the valley just beneath ne. They
paused Tor an instant on seeing my horse who
was standing as left him, and one of Them, took
the lariat from the sadde-low; hut just then thew
caught glimpse Of The flying Vrginian, and with
yell that m>de the very leaves SILVER, dashed on
10 pursuit of him. This broke the spell upon my
mustang, and with sudden start aud shriIl neigh
he plunged wildly through the owd,dragsing the
warrior who held the ariat, from his seat, aud
nearly undressing two or three others. Then, as
II the very tiends were flashing him with Whips of
red hot steel, he flew rather than ran out of The
valley, into the plain, neghng louder than the saw
ages howed, till he was out of sight! L. a little
while they too were out of sght-a gun or two fol-
lowed at momenIary intervals, and then The echoes
faded into pulseless aud oppressive silence. broken
only by the sobbing means of the wounded bear
beneath ne.
was stupefed These events were so strange,
and had followed each other so rapidly, that was
q dizzv and utterly confounded Was it enchanted
land! Here am two hundred miles beyond The
outskirts of civilizations perched in tree, my
horse gone. friends scattered or scaped--ths i'll
fernal silence weighing upon nv lungs. No!
There is that dismal moan again! must go down
aud stop thai. or it'll run me crazy sure enough
Ha ha! This is funny Joke, what laugh
LII have with the fellows " hen we all get together
again! they've just hid as have done, and they'll
all meet out there at the moahof the gorge again
Pooh The Faies merely mean to try my veins
Curse that moaning! must go down and kill
that bear! PITY to kill it too--il's sort of COM
panionship! Dolrfu friends we'll be! Con-
found 1t. ifit wouldn't whine SO peously, could
stand it! Pshaw! the fellows will be here directly,
and what will they say TO find ha; have been SO
unnamed by little silence, that | couldn't finish
a wounded bear-when came all this distance TO
, hunt them? ffa
With these CALCULATIONS, down wentl The
: great monster was too far gone to be savage
r He merely stared at me through lfgazed eyes;
then tossing his head about, he CAPPED his jaws and
moaned | went close up to him. | wanted HIM
, to shew fight, and excite me. |, looked like
: cold-blooded murder to kill him so. and we the
!, only live things near tMt he wouldn't notice me.
}. His back was broken and he had enough to &C.
D cnpy him. Wouldn't il be nierciful to put him
D out of pain! Yes. but who's going be mer-
D ciiul to me when am siarving-afer my ammu.
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