The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1877-06-20

OF the handle and swung il around his
neck lie soon met a large bear coming
towards him; he Immediately fired at
the bear, which was only enraged at the
wound inflicted, and made at the hunter
in great rage. The hunter, nothing
daunIed, unswung his tomahawk and
stood on the deieuse, and as the bear
made a plunge at him, he sprang aside
and aimed Il death blow at his skull, but
unfortunately, in aiming the blow, the
cord on the handle was thrown so rs to
pass over the bears head and hang
around its neck, and destroy the force of
the blow, which proved but a slight one.
Bruin, however, not lancyins his collar
or its DANGLING accompaniment, kept
straight ahead, leaving the hunter in
quiet possession OF the field, min8s his
tomahawk, which he never heard Of
again. Even tho timid deer did not al
ways submit to lis fate without resistance,
, for the male sometimes when badly
wounded, would turn up his slayer with
the wrath Of tiger, and was found a
dangerous foe, and many stories are told
OF the life and death struggles that old
hunters had with such foe.
But the most extraordinary puzzle was
the story of9ld Matthias Shultz aud the
buffalo, which, after being shot and
skinned, plunged into Green river and
made Its escape. The old man used to
tell this story With twinkle Of the eye,
sad affirm it for fact, and as he was a
man Of undoubted veracity, none knew
how to believe or explain the story,
which the old man never would do only
to particular friend, which explanation
Was as follows: One day he met fine
large buffalo, which had been down TO
the waters edge to quench his thirst, and
had almost reached ting top Of the bank,
when Shultz shot HIM dead; he turned
him on his back, his horns suiting well
as pegs to hold him steady, and soon had
his entire skin separated from his body.
Nothing to do but separate the carcass
from the head. which, with the aid Of
his hunting knife and tomal,awk, Shuts
readily done. even sooner than lie antici-
patcd, Tor at the last blow which severed
the neck bone, away slid the carcass into
the river, which 10 doubt formed boun.
tiful repast for the fishes.
Another good story is told Of a lad
named John, who. fGll of fun and frolic,
WAS always ready for practical joke
upon man or beast. On cool, frosty
morning John was going on an errand to
a neighbor's house; the path led along
level ridge At a sudden turn in the path
he saw the back Of a wolf; it having its
head down, and then being in slight
depression, so that it did not see John,
who, having no ggn, hid behind 4 tree
Immediately by the path. What a glo-
rious bit Of fun thought lie, in soaring
the wolf out OF his skin. The wolf came
trotting on, and out sprang John, right
before its nose, with the loudest 5OOh
that his lungs could utter Wolf was 40
doubt tremendously scared but as wolves
will do when scared. his first motion was
to give John a snap, which penetrated to
the bone, Oh. each..side o! his leg, and
then ran as hard as wolf could run, whilst
John stood looking, alternately at the
speed OF the wolf and then at the bleeding
leg, and finally uttered the sage remark:
"Well, what fool vast in which
opinion the reader will no doubt concur.
Washington Irving, in his "Recollec>
tons of Ralph Ringwood," otherwise the
late Governor Duyall,) speaks of Bob
Tarlton as strapping young fellow, with
head like chestnut bur, &c" Now
Bob was on mythe, Lut real, rafting,
rowdying, lille scamp, only fit to fight
Indians and hunt coons and such like
sports. Still Bob had a streak OF love in
his soul, and was fond Of the company of
Mics Galloway, who liyei several miles
away. So Bob. late one evening, shout
dered his axe, called his dog and struck
bee line for Old Chesley Caloway's,
where he prolonged his visit until the
small hours of night; bA the joys of
counting must at least have a recess. if
not al end, and Bob had again to shout
der his axe, whistle for his dog and de-
part Now Col Alexander Bennett had
constructed in the woods Avery iugeni>
Gus wolf trap by digging q deep, square
hole in the ground, aud fixing balanc~
ing door or lid that would tilt and let the
game fall in. Bob's vas an excellent
coon dog, but he had freed so often when
Bob would not come to his relief, that lie
had undertaken to teach his master that
excellent business qualification of being
prompt, and, il his master did not make
his appearance very soon, he stopped
barking and went his way. SO on this
dark night as Bob was vending his way
and thinking OF his charming love, his
dog freed, and Bob started in brisk run
in that direction, and soon landed in the
bottom OF Col. Barnett's wolf pit, where
he was greeted in the north corner by the
champing and rafting of hogs tusks,
and in the opposite south corner by the
groxling Of wolf, so Bob Was glad to
take his stand as close as he could possi-
bly, squeeze 10, in the western corner,
still leaving the east corner unoccupied,
but in very short time it, too. had its
tenant, for Bob's dog left his tree and
came Fastening after his masters trail,
and fell in the unoccupied corner, where
he was compelled to stay; for every
whine he gave, or move he made toward
his master, brought fourth growl and
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