New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-12-15
BEARS IN A QUANDARH.
TWO OF THEM BECOME TIGHTLY WEDGhp
IN "A NARROW DOORWAY.

Oakland Penn Dec II tspecian.-A roaring nre
blazed and cracked IN old-fashoned fireplace a.
hunters resort here the other evening -
was after supper and FIVE bird shooters from varo"'
places oasting their shins in front OF the
mass. smoking their pipes and relating their O.
periences OF the day. Five tired bird dogs were SUI
ing on the floor. and on long table Jay eVenUo"
plump partrldges a brace Of rabbits and three gray
squirrels. At intervals during the early evening nan
dozen hardy and bushy WHISPERED resident huhoi
AID trappers stroled in and sat on the benches hao
one told story or two about bears. some OF VIII"
are condensed below:
1.-TWO of us were hauling logs out Of the WOODS
back Of Prices Swamp last winter" said tail n''-
herman. ave had shanty In the woods ana VIC
ate our dinners there and fed our horses on oaV9
out of canvas feed bags. Our work kept us soo"'
half mile away from the shanty between meals' u'
we had 10 pass the place on our way homo AZ his'.
/ wanted 10 use my pail 10 dip water wiz,
one afternoon, and so put some meat ana pre"'
had left into one of the feeo-OSSs
and hung the bag up on two ha'
inside of the shanty. 1t was dusk When w
drove toward the shanty with load OF logs ! was
ahead of the team the other fellow driving ana as
neared the shanty heard big racket IN H. ia'o
a rush for the little building and before had gono
ten PAGES out dashed whopping big bear. his n'''
was I'm the feed bag, and he couldn't get 1t OUT Des
the rope was over his neck He could see over the p
of the bag and he was half scared 70 death wheh 10
GOT sight OF me- The bear made dive behind INC
shanty and started for the swamp, and yelled al 'h0
other man and told him 10 stop the team anu nu'-
down with the axe. Then / grabbed canthooA anu
ran after the bear In his haste to clear OUT ~
buted his head against tree and tumbled DacE"alu
and before he had time TO rally got goou eP
around the middle Of his body with the canthooh.
lie vanked me over something less than an aero w
brush but held him with the hook TIL the o'ne,
fellow came and crushed his skull with the axe anu
then we piled him top OF the load OF logs anu 'O'N
him home lie weighed 427 pounds
THAT bag business said another "ooosnia"'
makes me think Of when l picking hucMe
berries last summer on Scrub Oak Ridge Ia nieu
a twelve-quart pail, and wanted to get a.
many more so | stood the pail Oh Top
of a bis stump, raised the bale up and covered tue
berries with leaves. Then l went over The oh"
side OF the ridge. quarter of MILE probably 10 p'A
the other pail fun. 1t took me over an hour Anu
when sol in sight OF the stump, wna' U their
but two cub bears standing on the stump, WIN Uen
noses in NV pail of hucklcberI1es. Ihey WeIe u1
opposite sides OF the pail, and the way they hosE'
roud. and the cubs rolled of the stump like Two
halls one OF them had the bale OF my pail over 1s
neck and | chased him for almost a mile, Dut NC
got away I'm tho thick brush, and have never seen
my pal from that day to this 49,. hour hs,r
botbered a man who moved into his neghborhood from
a region where bears don't roam through me l0'ests
and fields The newcomer had lost pig and two
no borrowed trap to catch the bear no one .o nS
him how TO fasten the chain 10 chunk OF log ana
SO ne set the trap close to his little smokehouse,
hated il all right and hitched the chain 10 corner
most I'm the smOkehouse On the third night pear
ot his foot I'm the trap. and when the newcomer went
out. i'm the morning his smokehouse wasn't mere,
TIc found pafts strung along through NE pasture
and meadow but he didn't get a glimpse OF the Dear
fbc tran never turned up and he had 20 pay for u.
folowed a bear mile and half once win one
NJ my trans on his of forefOot' said An old trapper
. and he led me 10 a heap OF bOulders on Lime kdse:
had nv rife with me, and when got IN sisht OF
him he was mauling the trap on Dig harlhead stone
for all he was worth. He couldn't smash 10 there ana
so he went 10 bigger rock and pounded the trap some
more / was In the edge of the woods and his actions
t,cIIed me So mucb that thought I'd let him whack
away till he got tired Well gentlemen in loss than
fifteen minutes the bear knocked that trap walter.
jawed, and then pulled M and fired couple 81
bullets into him ] got the bear, Of course, but the
trap wasn't worth cents"
A shanty that dodgers nTed 10 live In stands at
the upper end OF BLACK swamp chimed In another
wOoknan " | heard noise I'm II as ] was gong
past there on a moonlight night last summer, IL
kinder startled and stopped 10 listen. just then
two full grown bears rushed into the narrow doorway
at once. and in their hurry to scamper off they got
wedged in side by side. and they couldn't back up
or 90 ahead. ] never heard bears below they did
when they and found out the fix they were N:
didn't TO kill em. and so hunted around till
came across handspike, and then prled em out
of the door and let 'em 90 of about their business