San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-09-14
The Boss Bear Story.


hills near Inskip, is in town today, ana
had the following incident to relate !,
which bear Of the cinnamon spe;o0.
abducted his three-year.old dauebta,
not with any desire to harm the cb;la
but through strange kind OF affection
1t appears that MIR. Flynn started ona
morning to take horse to pastu,o
about two miles distant from the hor.a
and as his little girl seemed anxious ~
go, ne put her upon the horses back
and let her ride short distance, Der.
haps forty rods from the house, wheyo
he put her down and told he,
to run home. He noticed that she con
tinued standing where he left her, and
on looking back, after going a littls
farther saw her playing in the sand
He soonpassed out of sight and was gone
about an hour, expecting, of course
that the child would return to tbe
house after playing few moments. On
returning home he made inquiry about
the child Of its mother, who said she
had not seen her, and supposed he had
taken her along with him. On going
to the spot where he had left her he
saw huge bear tracks in the sand, and
at once came to the conclusion that the
child had been carried off by the bear.
The family Immediately made search
through the forest, which was grown
up to almost Jungle, rendering their
search very slow. All day those anx.
ious parents searched for traces of their
child, nor did they stop when darkness
came on, but remained in the woods
calling the lost one by her name.
Morning came and their search was
fruitless. A couple of gentlemen from
below, who are travelling through the
mountains buying stock, came to the
house, and, being informed of the cir.
cumstances, Immediately set out to find
her. The gentlemen wandered about
and, as they were passing swamp spot
where the underground was thick, called
the child, or else they were talking
loud, when one of them heard her
voice. He then called her by name and
told her to come out of the bushes.
She replied that the bear would not let
her. The men then crept through the
brush, and when near the spot where
she and the bear were, they heard a
splash in the water, which the child
said was the bear. On going to her,
they found her standing upon log ex.
tending about half way across the
swamp. The bear had undertaken to
cross the swamp on the log, but being
pursued, left the child and got away as
rapidly as possible. She had received
some scratches about the face, arms
legs, and her clothes were almost torn
from her body, but the bear had not
bitten or hurt her, only the marks Of
his teeth being found on her back,
where, in taking hold of her clothes
to carry her, he had taken the flesh
also.
The little one says the bear would
put her down occasionally to rest, would
put his nose up to her face, when she
would slap him; and the bear would
hang his head by her side, and purr and
rub against her like cat. The men
asked her if she was cold in the night,
and she told them the old bear lay down
beside her, and put his "arms" around
her and kept her warm, although she
did not like his long hair. She was
taken home to her parents. 1t IS
thought that the beast that had actea
so strangely toward the little girl, with
out hurting her, is pet one that re.
Gently left Pres. Longley, who INTENDS
furnishing the Record with poem OIL
the event.-ChjCo Union.