The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-01-13

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Bears IN Pennsylvania. An Old Hunt.
~ - = yss'er's Talk, sti flls,sa ut i
From: an old bear hunter of Pike
County it was learned ;that there are
more signs of bears this fall than have
been known for years.tAlong the edges
81 tpe great swanpss there, isa border
of soft. black mud. These swamps are.
many of them. almost inaccessible to
man, and the, bears make, them their
places of refuge. If bears are plenty
Ilthe' MUD along the edges, at this time of
year, will be bro ken, up, as if COWS had
been walking and stamping in it. At
intervals, also, the mud will be :. ihol-
lowed out in spots eight OF ten feet long.
two or three wide and two feet deep.
II great patches of scrub oaks are found
crushed to the ground, that is certain
Indication that bears have been "work-
} ing there. K Ihey. have been out feed
ipg ON the acoSns,, They rise upon their
hatlnches among the scrub, and with
theirJ fore paws beat the bushes ivio-
lently BearsraIe very fond of crick-
Pets, slugs and bugs of all kinds, and
.theylknow that their favorite insects
make. their homes in the. fall under
stones on the ground. Conseauently.
theyseeet spots where the ground is
covered with stones, and turn them up
to get at the bags. Yellow jacket and
hornet nests, or rather their c0ntentsi
are favorite morsels with the. black bear,
IL bear sees yellow jacket or a hornet
Yorkng in the woodsIhes aaets like "a
crazy thing until he finds the hole the
one enters, or the tree or rock to which
the nest, of the other is Fastened. 10 He
prances- and dances around through the
woods, licking his chops and whining
andtgrowllng, until his unerring scent
leads him to the object of his Search,
'Ihen'he' gets right down to Business.
\ elbow jackets build their nests i'm ythe
ground When the bear finds, one it
takes'hrit a few swtoops Of his forepaws
to t1rnS it wrongsside optsnsT The bees
swarm opt in clouds and cover the bear
mtifheqooks as if painted yellow.ii He
paysspo attention to their, attacks al ,
though an assault. of yellow Jackets on
!almost any other aniinal would soon re-
,sultlin death. ~ ,r,..If I'll
The bear merely shuts his. eyes and
grins as he scoops tie honey out with
his paws and licks them off until the
nest is despoiled of every trace of its.
sweets. 1.-The old hunter declares that
he shot a big bear once in Pinchot,
Swamp, over in the High Knob region.
He killed it, but when he went in to I
drag the carcass out he found, that the
bear had been robbing a yellow Jackets
nest, and it was still COVERED With theb|
merry. Httie insects. t-:...sf that bar. had
been wounded only, and had showed
ttlght,sId waltzed right into it without
any delay. But wheneneo' them eussed,I
little hot-tailed varmints of WALLER |
Jacket come divin"' me, 7Tudidi,ta
wantsnop O. him. and cut and run. l |
Ya'n't afeered O. no wounded Bar. but I
that'yaler bee scared me out4SI i1idn' I til
go arter. that bar till next; day. |
Hornets build their nests high up in |
the branches of trees, or fastenlthem to-
rocks, out of the reach of harm. But, Al
cunning as these insects are, they are I
no match for the bear. tADbearl dis. /
covers hornets nest far out on a Limb /
too small to bear his weight, Or high up I
on the breast of a rock. If the fermer, ].
he climbs the tree, breaks off the longest
branch he caii get, and, holding = it it iii
his fore pawsffhrashes the nest Until it |.
drops to, the ground. Sometimes. he /
dances Or stamps on the limb until the T
nest is shaken off. III the1nast lis aon: a
rock, the bear goes up to the top Of the
ledge abovcIit..1 Thesii He gathers large
stonesl and pieces sofwood, anD rolls |.
them down, the side of the rock. until
one strikes the nest and esehtfs it TIM
bling to the Heiind bellows The hornets.
seem to. know what has caused their
ruin and not one or them deserts the
fallenHnest, but all seemsto wait.for the
appearance of the bear, when they at
tack hinf at once. eEH10aI Il +
" Ahdrnet sting,f, says ;the e old hpnter,a
!" is equal to blow from sledge- hama
mer every time, and one,hornet n knock
a bulb down. II But their bite WON'T raise
a lump as big as buckshot on a bar.
and the shaggy critter seems TO think
it's aheap o. fun. ssHe'll stand up fon
his hind legs and. square off with his
fore paws at Che hornets lest al H he
was boxin' with somebody's only he's
dnrn careful to keep his eyes shet. Then
NC IL fftt uOWu anu roll all over the rest.
as if be wanted to show the hornets how
ne didn't care no more for 'em than as
If theywas gnats. Once Isee' d big she
b Far, which had knockeda hornets s nest
asIbig as a peck measure off'n a tree,
take thunder her arm and walk 0fwfth.
ls'as ceolas if it was one O 3 her, cubs.''r
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10 a. : A Boys Rhetoric. r., .,..,,s...l.
afour rhetoric, although not in ac-
:Ordance with the rules laid down in
The books, shows extensive research B
and apt quotation and an Independent
spirit.| Yourreading7 my dsaf1boy, far
surpasses that of your father; and, his
intercourse with the choice spirits OF
literature has not been inconsld detable1
in extent. if he may be allowed to thus
pat himself in fonfarison with his we'll
read SOM Such expressions, for ex-
ample, as biting off more than can
shaw,'' 'syanking the bun," and many
otherss had entirely. escaped my ebser.J
fation until they were seen in your let
Bef. I. cannot understand the exact1