The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-02-03
BULLDOG AND BEAR.
A CONTEST THAT ENDED DISAS-
TROUSLY FOR BRUTN.
A Bear Under a Barn-Whippfng
Mongrel Cur, but Unable
to Shake or Brute Of
Another Sort.

Mongrel Cur, but Unable
to Shake or Brute Of
Another Sort.
Farmer Iru Rowland, whose farm is
about four miles north of Tobyhanna, saw
some big tracks in the snow back of his
wagon barn yesterday morning, says are
cent Scranton Penn letter to the New
York Sun. The front of the building
rests on wall not more than six inches
from the ground, while the back side of
it stands on stone pillars three feet or
more above the ground. The tracks,
which were unmistakably those of large
bear, showed plainly that the animal had
gone under the building and was their
concealed when Farmer Rowland made:
the unexpected discovery. It was quite
dark underneath the barn, and
as Farmer Rowland stopped
down and peered into the darkness, he
! fancied that he heard a noise like that
made by beast chewing food. He got
a shovel and uncovered heap of snow
buried stones near the corner of the
building Then he took stone as large
as his fist and hurled it under the barn.
An angry growl from the darkness start
led the farmer, and he hastened away to
summon Hank Chase, his hired man, and
to call the dog.
Chase was driving load of wood
through the lane, and, when he heard
the voice of his somewhat frightened em-
ployer, he stopped the team, wound the
lines around stake in the sleigh, and
ran to the barn. A minute later large,
shaggy, mongrel dog came bounding into
the barnyard to see what was wanted OF
him. Farmer Rowland told Chase that
there was ferocious wild animal under
the wagon barn, and Chase got q long
pole off the fence to poke the animal with.
Farmer Rowland told him to hold on
a minute, and then he took the dog to
the side of the barn and said: = \. i.
''Fetch him out, Tige-fetch him Out,
sir" .s.s.I... s.
The shaggy dog rushed under the barn
as brave as lion, barking as he went,
and the farmer got down on his hands
and knees and looked after him. An in-
slant later the dog ceased to bark, and
the farmer imagined he heard 1t struggle.
He continued to tell the dog to "fetch
! i'm out" The only thing that came out
just then was the dog. He could not be
made to go under the barn again, and IN
few minutes he crawled around into
the barnyard, lay down at the foot OF
the stack of straw and died.
As soon as the dog had abandoned the
conflict Chase began to poke around un-
der the barn with the pole. While he
was doing this, Farmer Rowland hurried
to the fence and got another pole and be-
gan to poke, too. The only response for
some time was series OF groWls and
grunts. They kept poking away, how
ever and the next thing Farmer Rowland
knew was that black monster had sud-
denly emerged from the darkened space
under the barn and tumbled him head
over heels into the deep snow. The sur
prised farmer scrambled to his feet IN
time to see Chase bring his pole down on
the bears back without harming the bear
in the least. Chase dropped his pole
when he saw what the animal was, and
ran around the corner of the barn to find
a place of safety. Farmer Rowland un-
dertook to do the same thing, but the
bear had been poked so much that he
was angry through and through, and he
gave vent to some of his rage by knock
Ing the farmer down again before he had
time to get away:
Chase ran to the barn and got pitch
fork, with which he prodded the bear,
making him more angry and desperate
than ever. Chase kept on sticking the
fork into the bears hips until he broke
it. while Farmer Rowland, whose clothes
had been badly torn, was fast becoming
exhausted from the violent exercise. The
hired man was hustling around to find
another weapon when he saw Hobart Al
Ian and his big bulldog sauntering up the
road:
s:For Gods sake, Allen, hurry up here
with your dog and set him on that bear
back of the barnl" yelled Chase.
Allen ran up and followed Chase to the
rear of the barn, with his faithful bull
dog at his heels. Allen took in the situ-
alton at a glance, and in low tone he
said to his dog: .. .-..s, =
''Take him by the nose, Savagel"
AS Quick as flash the bulldog ran be-
tween Farmer Rowland and the bear, and
then turning half way round on his hind
legs round on his hind legs, he seized the
bear by the nose and settled his teeth
firmly into the flesh before the bear had
a chance to defend himself. Farmer
Rowland, all out of breath, became now
simply an interested spectator. The bear
groaned with pain and made several des-
perate efforts to shake the dog loose, but
he might as well have undertaken to
shake all his hair of, for the dog had got
hold that could not be broken. The
infuriated bear lifted his head and
yanked the dog from the snow, and then
lowered his head quickly with the ap-
parent intention of knocking the life out
of him, but Savage still had his teeth set
deep in the bears nose. Then the bear
rolled over three or four times and
tried to crush the Cog under his big body,
but Savage was too agile for that game
to be played on him, and to the nose he
clung. Allen watched the struggle for
ten minutes or so, when, fearing that the
dog might get fatally hurt, he pulled out
q big revolver and shot the bear through
the heart. The dog could not be loosed
his grip until the bear had been dead for
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