Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-03-28
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t4s -aatas aa4 gave a -efeaa. ..l ca over
I'd 8 lsaf islas. Ine slr te .e4s pale as
le.la. aat b. riessl l.r as a.ll, tasia' =
lis --k. ae sasss Aat.es aAt tlnen.
tals 'sr-'- mF ails. sbsi soaas Esf-
s4es all laf- aer 81 aFs ase. aai itn
lsi.H sad sae ga alaa. stopping tas
eaa- 4ad sgasl.la ule sat liil.s. 'lf
t.ee afsait u.lAe up. HES nvip' in = ls
ai hea orz cay and coales Jp lefe
guar setA, Alb AIS ser vaa.. ani -ea
you tie bays amt f0rsos wien he's
a4oaaL Ae never forgets BE ~as 9ulalt'
hIaas III. 4-sr- hesrl tae ias AID cuts
~ naa 90 4ts. iaAf- n,<e1 lor Hu4a.fia'
lato loizs affairs. tut they said how he
married a sal that hal laaps of Iaeney
aa4 -s Lalu'. cent. She Kept thTas.iu'
a. ap 60 hla4 -Ill b. Eol AIS oaek mp, - tie
szg ia Is, aut lsi1, aR1 beln' kiai II
scanned, he dug cut aud eame zap there
20 "a - folks on The Safanac. IA nsvere expecl-
laf 4 supp Sc. o. aiee- aay - his c9nnec-
-iau- Regular romantic cal e.
.Weli. we're scttiai al that bar story
kinder slow, TIA. as 1 Was sayin' ene day
aaa taala' party up l0 tis. "a lies Nest.
Comm back sc stopped I'll here, and tie
ls4y got 0ug aud went over on tue rocks
with hes husband. / reckon they wasn'-
over ami above long married, for she was
recalling a poetry book 10 him, and Syas
segll' just there In the bat sinokis' aud
lninAll' u0w tastes run, when all 20 once
sis gave TIE OUT -and-ous enesr yell l ever
Le.tld. al gave me such a turn / dropped
my pipe, a f5gr-y ysar-oli, aud look ng up
tuere was the lady a-iain5ln' and he
hauli4' EeF towards the boat Oy the arms,
anl right behind them, standlu' all took
back, as Dig black bear aud two cubs.
4 reckon she was nisa SCARF TO death. too,
teF size just gave one look and thea got-of
.atN The bush, aud had 90 set there and
ist Der, for l hadA't gun or nothin'.
teA YOU / coulan't ger back 10 the hotel
qlic2 enough Tor them two, and they told
taat story abouz hfty times day for two
ami pm blessed II recognized it a. frs.
Il hai regular riz and beea tackled on To-,
50 t-at when 10 came out in the New York
paper it was about tag worst iiglt ever
heard of.
ars IS dretful cute" added the guide.
" Sow. nearly hail an hour after We ST. hi-
ga taat one l was on the spos agin with
Lalt a dozen young fellrs and three or
l9ur sooI uear dogs, but we never got a
smell ol ner, aud l tramPed all the after
Noon. IL You 20 out without your gun,
you're .o.'t able sure 70 see game. In the
winter bears lay up, you know-that i,
there's n0.nin' 10 eat, no berries nor noth-
mo they, as a general thing, dig kind
of burr1w under rock or tree and 70 IN
AMI sleep a. out until spring. They get
fat on the fall berries, anI feed on their
own rat all winter, and in the spring come
oQ1 with their cubs that are born in the
winter, thin AMI generally savage, ana il
is then that you want to look out for 'em;
tur its rare that any one is attacked.
Las -ar man from the hotel started up
B.le Mount 20 got some spring water for
gentleman who was very particular
abou5 it, aud few minu Is after he was
heard comm down the incline head over
heels, the two pals behind him and after
them big black bear, growliu' and raisin'
ths very mischief, but she stopped before
she got 10 the bottom. r. seems that he
Get O. the spring and turnin' suddenly tc
10 had come upon the old bear and cubs,
aud had struck one OF the youus 'uns with
his foot as it ran in frons of him. This
started the old one aud away they went.
80; they never caught her; she got aw ay
somehow.
"N Nhen 1 was a yonker r" sail the old
guile, ".hings were some hing different
Th-re wasn's house within ten miles oi
t1is place then, ani all sorts Of game was
-omm1n. Wildcat and puma was just a.
common in them days l was goin' to say
a. bl1eS dies IS now. Anyway, you
couldn't wander along a great way with
out runnin' foul Of one or t'other. In the
winter. you know, the lakes are froz n
over ti Iht, ani you can cross anywhere.
Well, one winter, when I was about nine
tesa, We lived up BY Long Lake. The old
man was a trappin' aud doin' some Iogyin
and one ni yht he lett me TO b-ing home the
team alone. ! had two oxen on aud got
cut In o the middle Of the lake when Il
commenced TO snow. and ia ten minutes
was about as mixed W as you please.
came 20 the shore, though. AMI k pt along
until / got to the carry. and then / star ed
down. reckon I'd gone about a hundred
yards when / began 20 suspicion that some
tning vas after me. I stopped the team
hut I couldn't hear nothin'. Then s,artet
a-in, and jlst as ths critters began &,
move I could hear the crac<le e the tvig'
set FAR 1d Just "a il some biz suima
WIS folari1' ne up. l urged the team
On. bue Go began O. get nervou
themselves snI at last stopped shor
end gan to make a kind ~ a lowin
sound. vas set in on the top of the pile
fhen. with an a in ore hani and Ion.
wo in the osne~, AMI I'll jusf started 4
~ down when hIim, came something OF
tae laad AMI the mex minuts I eirhsr va
kaeesaf OF or faif between the oxen an
afT tnev s'artaf A luck v3elI have it
tee .lsd wss one cf these high ones thes
u.si fs use IN them days, and ran righ
.ver me es click as v5u please. IA clnn.
to .he sx somehow. ard a. soon as tle l0as
s'tt over oas up ana started ca. an rhei
-t so 20 he team there was Vras-ll