Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-05-04
moved slowly away. with the bear

moving SLOWLY aOOu1, AT times In fuIl
view, and again hidden in the under
brush.
At last, about sunset, he took himself
off, and our hunter was about to de-
scend, when he once more heard from
the animal. There wee fierce growls
of rage that issued from a gorge near
by. My friend at first supposed that
the bear had encountered other hunters,
but, rs he heard no sound of guns, nor
other, evidences Of mortal combat, he
resumed his seat and listened. The
mysterious uprOar continued, and,
what was strange, appeared in the fact
that all the noise came from the same
spot. Unarmed and f int from hunger
and fatigue, my friend remained all
night clinging to his perch, and at in
tervals he heard the bear growing and
tearing furiOusly. The comical idea
seized on the hunter that bruin had
stupidity mistaken some other pine for
the one that sheltered his enemy.
The night wore slowly away. Our
treed hero slept from time to time, and
invariably dreamed of falling, to AVA
ken with start and find himself cling
ing to the branches of the pine. When
cessary to his safety do not relax as in
an ordinary sleep, but when, through
farigue,I they are about to lose their
tension, the sleeper IS awakened by a
dream. This is one of the singular lit
tie phenomena we overlook while in
search oflarge ones. afe-1,f...- w
Day dawned at last, and he crawled
down, sore, faint, and hungry. He
was about to gather up the fragments
dfflis rifes and hurry back to camp,
when a fresh burst Of rage from the
wounded bear, and, issuing from the
same locality as during the night, Sc
excited his curiosity that he determined
to investigate, and therefore crept eau
tiously toward the gorge from whence
the noise proceeded The explanation
made him laugh. Old grizzy had fallen
into log trap such as hunters set when
seeking to capture q living specimen
There was the last nights foe well Sc
cured, and my friend was mean enough
to laugh in his face while regarding
IcuriousIy the wound his hastily dis
charged rife had made. The LETT ear
was torn away. 5T3 i.'
Nearly a year after this event, my
friend, the assistant hero of this adven-
ture. was passing along East Broadway
in New York, when his attention WIS
attracted by a sicklys hand-0rgan thai
made an orchestra to the show OF 8
or zzly bear, with the usual accompani'
ment of a fat woman, the anacondas, q
calf with two heals and an asSOrtmen
of tails, and monkey.
Wishing to renew his acquaintance
with an animal that had so nearly
closed his career, my friend paid the
necessary dime and entered through 8
foul door Ofdecaying sawdust and fried
sausages. To his amazement, i'll 8
huge iron cage, scarcely large enough tt
allow him standing room, was the griz
zly bear he had marked in the noun
tairis. He had been carried to Sar
Francisco, and won great renOwn il
several fights with bulls and dogs. He
was now being exhibited 1ons the At
lahtic slope to adrniring thousands. Ny
friend tried 10 catch the eye of his old
adversary, but in vain.
The creatures ill temper seemed II
survive his many fights and long con
finement;. To-. an awkward fellow, evl
identity from the interior, turned rathel
near the cage to gaze at the corpulen
woman, then being festooned with ana
condas, when old grizzly with a growl
threw out his huge paw with. such
force, rapidity and precision that no
only the back of the he-countryman's Goa
but the seat of ) is stout pantalOons dis
appeared. My friend left the place in
| the midst ofa fierce alteration between
the country fellowsa and the Snowman
as to who should pay for /" then
clothes.", s..5-s.- - "a --ss. t..-s.5
The strange acquaintance did not enc
with this. Years aft ~, in a visit witt
some friends to the Geological Gardens
of Paris, the Englishman was delighted
to recognize again his foe. Old ag'
added to a better knowledge of thu
world, had not only subdued his ugly
disposition,s but life in Paris affected
him. as itztioes alk active Americans, ,an6
rendered the. beast positively 1uxir rioas
He received a. bone kindly from hi,
once deadly opponent, and, as tht
weather was extremely warm, he rollet
into hisstone trough to lie on his back
permitting the cool water Ito tricklt
over his hairy head while he Hzils
tgn$s1edAt the bone. This falling IRON
his lahs gsasR, he elossd i hA Icy eye E
tsuGh stuHas bears, dreams are made Of
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