Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1862-04-18
$. HOWARD, Jr., Publisher.
In the morning they started in a north.

to pass through what is called the notch,
and which leads to the town of Cambridge.
They had passed a little beyond what is
called the How Place." when Byron,
who was not at all satisfied with the lead
ership of the day before, signifed his pur-
pose not to follow the party any further
in that direction, and sat down upon a
log, while the others passed on. He sat
there some twenty or thirty minutes de-
liberating what to do, and finally con-
cluded to start off in westerly direction,
towards what is called the "Chin'' Of the
Mountain. When he had proceeded about
mile, he came on to a piece OF hard
wooded land, nearly plain and level, for
four or five acres. He had passed partly
across this plain, when he saw an immense
porcupine coming towards him, down the
hill He made no effort to kill the an
imal, as he, upon the sight of him, at
once became confident that game of more
Importance was near.
He took the back tracks of the hedge
hog, and followed it about fifty rods, to a
hollow beach tree, out of which it was ev-
ident he had come. He Immediately dis
covered the tracks of bears about the tree,
and was satisfied that they drove the por-
cupine out. He then went on about ten
rods to little hill from which he could
overlook considerable portion Of the
fiat piece of land, and at once deserted
two bears, busily engaged in bcachnut-
ting like couple of boys. They neither
scented or saw any cause Of alarm, and he
stood and witnessed their operations fol
twenty minutes, trying to decide what tc
do with no weapon but AK. He finally
concluded to call to his comrads, and tt
: the third halloo received an answering
: hoot. At the first shout the bears threw
, up their noses listened instant, anc
then with snort upon snort something lik'
e horse, and more like a hog they gallop
ed away. a.
t By hallooing back and forth the othe
t members of the party finally found thei
%
: way up, after being informed by Byron o
a what he had seen. After dispatchinj
/ the balance of their rations, rather hastil,
n for the purposes of good digestion, the,
n commenced tracing the track Of the bear
s which led in the direction of the Chin
, They followed the track Of the two bear
y about half mile, when they found wher
: another bear, appearing by the track t
be monster, had come in with the two
e The snow was a little damp, and the
It could accurat ely measure the track of tn
T. largest one, and found it to be the widt
e Of two hands, with the end of the thumb
a placed against the side of the palms.
l. was thought by the hunters that this bca
T. was the dam Of the others, and had bee
6 aroused by the hallooing, to come to thei
IS assistance. '..,
e The young hound instead of being {
y any service in the chase, was rather nu
"a sance, and manifested his want Of courae
by continued whining, trembling an
G. keeping right under the feet Of the hui
s. ters until some one of the party threatel
II ed to shoot him. "N-n-o," said Johl
Of "d-d-on't you 'h-h-oots my dog
in In the pursuit of the bears one thir
b. gave the hunters considerable troubl
j, Notwithstanding the depth of the snow
ii and before they had learned the cunnin
70 or habit, it might be- of the bears, the
W thought they had entirely lost the trac
J; They came to a place where the tract
n, seemed to stop they could see no tracl
10 ahead, or near in any direction exec
g. those which they had come, and those q
y pointed one way,--the way they had be-
ve coming, and no traceable indications
@ their having taken the back. atfad q!
ID 81 They came to a stopping place al
or there, with feet all in the same directio
IL it seemed as if they were swung right i
= to the air. The hunters looked, and loo
. cd, and wondered, until they began
It think it impossible to recover the trac
&C and were passing over the back track SC
y, eral rods from where it seemed to en-
ng when one Of them discovered slig