The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-02-04
LIKE A BEAR.
The Food which Prevails In Pot
ter County, Pa.
The Curious Eneot Upon New Yorker Of .
Three-wceks' Residence In County
where Boar Meat Abounds-
The Hunters Paradise.
IN. Y. SUM-

Hall pillars In two" said young Eugene
6anderson, the knife merchant, land II
could get just one swat with my right fore
paw alongside OF John L. Suliivan's mug,
feeling the way do now, Mr.. Sullivan
wouldn't get back In time to save his gate
money, and I'll bet on It,"
MIR. sanderson had just returned from
Potter County, Pennsylvania.
"Why, actually, / can hardly pass by
fur store" said he, "the desire to stop and
stand up in front Of IL and hold big stick
tn my paws and show my teeth Is so strong
within me. I've taken strange fancy for
honey and live pigs, and when first came
Sack felt as II somebody was on my track
md trying to capture me for the Central
lark collection.
"For three weeks had nothing to eat
ut bear meat. I've had bear steaks, bear
seat hash, stewed bear, bear fricassee, bear
sausage, boiled bear, jerked bear, aud bear
headcheese. I've had bear gravy on PAN
cakes, baked on griddles creased with bear
fat. I've had minced bear meat pies, with
the crust shortened with bear lard. I've
had barbecued. bear cub, fried bear liver,
and stewed bear kidneys for change. l
was booked to stay another week--I was
yisiting--and probably should have stay
cd my time out, but one day the lady of the
house where l was staying--she's rela-
tive Of mlne-came 10 mo and said:
az see you can stand fodderln' on bear
tolably well, Sandy, and seem TO dote on
Il, SO I'm goln' 10 s'prise you with new
dish.'
"sThat soi' I said. 'What is IL to bep
"'Pickled bears feet she said.
"Wsll, drew the line straight aud wide
at picked bears feet, and made up my
mind TO escape at once, and did. And 1t
was time, tell you, for had got to that
sta go where felt myself bristllng up at
Che sight OF dog, md had a wild dispose
Zion to shin up trees and slosh around In
laurel swamps. My aunt missed three
pigs the last week l was there, and Pm
not sure that l didn't steal into the pen,
Just like a whole bear and walk of with
those pigs. Well, I'm recovering slowly
on strict anti bear diet, but would be q
fortune to any hair-ol manufactures that
could take me and squeeze me ont.
"I don't know whore all these bears came
from, but the hunters br ught In twenty
three in the three weeks I was out In
the Kettle Creek settlement. Everybody
hal bears hung In their cellars, piled in
thor barns, or ranked up like cordwood In
their woodsheds. They were OF all sizes
and age; for you know hunter hardly
has time to go and examine 4 bears teeth
10 see how old II Is before he makes up his
niai to shoot It. and consequently the
patrlarchial bruin, without q tooth In his
bead, Is as apt TO surrender his dry and
gutta-percha parts TO tn backwoods larder
as Is the sharp-toothed, glossy -coated
representative Of later generation.
"BcsIde eating my share OF the twenty
three h,ars saw three OF 'em killed-a
motherly old one aud her two promising
sons. A relative OF mlno and three other
natives started the bears, and were gone
three days In tho afternoon OF the third
day was over beyond the big tannery
which gives people an excuse for existing
cut there, when suddenly heard big
snort, followed by two Of smaller dimen-
sions. Looking In She direction OF the
roise was charmed TO see a large boar
and two hslf-grown ones standing In the
edge OF the woods sizing me up. I yelled
like stuck pig to man saw at the tan
oery. The bears scrambled up three Diff
terent trees within stones throw Of the
settlement.
at wasn't long before the whole place
bad turned outdoors and surrounded the
three trees. There was only one gun left
In the whole village. That was single
barreled shotgun. The men took turns
loading this and trying TO knock the bears
out Of the trees with bird shot After a
while Ii dawned on those sons OF toll tLa,
abear didn't mind bird shot any more than
an elephant might a popguu, and SO 1t was
resolved TO cut tho trees down and pound
the bears 10 death with axes.
"The tree with the old one was cut down
6rst. As II fell she gave jump and land
ed among tho excited populace. The popu-
lace scattered, and the bear had disap-
peared In the woods before Tho men with
the axes thought Of using then. They
had better luck with the young bears,
and both of those were killed In short or.
der.
"The last ones cry, however, brought
The old bear back again. She came tear
ing through the brush like runaway
team. l climbed on stone wall and from
that into an apple tree. Men, women and
children hew through the lots for cover.
The three men with axes would undoubt-
ediy have turned their attention to other
things II they had had time As IL was,
they either had 10 fight or be scattered
about In sections. 30 they met the be,r
with furious blows, and finally laid her
low beside her slain sons.
"Tsn minutes later the hunters who
liad been three days on the bear trail came
fionnderlng through tho woods. These
three bears were the ones they had beer
following all that time, with periods ol
rest, and they were all broke up to find
that the bears had led them back within
sight OF home and then been killed with.
out their having got shot at them. II
vas one OF those little bears that was bar.
becucd for change"
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A Senator's Daughters Dog.