Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-01
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through the openings in the bushes, still calle ing Josh by name and coaxing him to com out; but the little dog paid no attention to the repeated calls, barking more furiously than ever, and seeming to be teasing some kind of an animal with all the energy he possessed, and Mir. Woodcock, seeing that if was impossible for him to make the dog mind, concluded to hitch the horse and get into the swamp to see what Josh had tackled. MT. Woodcock said that Josh yelped like sixty just then, and so he dismounted, took off the bag of oats and placed it on the ground near the root of tree, and was lead ing the stallion toward sapling to hitch him, when ont Of the swamp sprang the lit- tie dog, bowling from fright.
 Close at his heels tramped an old she bear, frothing at the mouth and snorting, and it was she that Josh had been yelping at and disturbing in her nest under the roots of fallen tree Mir. Woodcock said that the little dog past him though he was scared half to death, and got out of sight in no time, and that he himself was so startled by the bears sudden appearance that he forgot to hitch the horse The angry old bear seemed to think no more about her tormentor the moment she saw the bag of oats lying there, for she bounced upon it with a roar that made the stallion prick up his ears and look mad, and began to rip and tear it all to pieces and make the precious seed oats fly.
 MT. Woodcook said that this eaper of the old bear caused him to act more suddenly than be usually does, and that, without stop ping to hitch the stallion to the sapling, he grabbed a dead limb, rushed at the bear and began to maui her over the head. The first blow made her below, but instead of turn ing tail, as he expected she would, she plunged at him and knocked him heels over head, forced him over in the snow and near ly broke one of his legs. He squirmed from under her paws, feeling that she would kill him before he could get to the horse, for in the struggle he had lost his club; but just as he had got upon his knees the bear sprang at him with another roar and pitched him head first into a mass of bushes near the side of the path. Then he was sure that the old bear would kilt him, but he pulled himself away from her by grabbing hold of some short twigs, and just then he heard the old stallion snort couple of times, as he had heard the animal do before when he was real mad, and the next thing he realized the horse bounded past him and came down on the bear with both fore feet.
 The weight of the horse and the sharp calks on his shoes tore the bears hide, but that only made her more murderous than ever, as she turned upon the horse and tried to strike him down. By this time Mir. Wood cock had got his arms around tree, where he could see what was going on. All of the stallion's old viciousness seemed to have come back to him in an instant, for he struck at the bear with his fore feet at least half a dozen times in less than minute, tearing the bears flesh and hide at every lunge. The bear drew blood on the stallion's shoulder once, and then the horse gave snort of rage, whirled as quick as flash and drove both of his hind feet against the bears left side three or four times. That knocked the wind out of the bear, but the horse was not through with her yet, for he right about faced and went to stamping on her, keeping that up until he had killed her.
 When the bear had stopped kicking MT. Woodcock said the stallion cooled off and acted as if he was satisfied. It was pretty dark by that time, and MT. Woodcock, who had been badly bruised by the bear, and whose face had been considerably scratched in the briers, picked up what was left of the injured bag, mounted the horse and rode home. Little Josh had got there before him and had sneaked into the house with his tail between his legs, the bear having frightened him 80 much that he couldn't be got to leave the house for three days.
 On Tuesday morning MT. Woodcock and Giles Gooderich, 8 neighbor, went to where the dead bear lay. In the course of half ar hour they found her nest, and in it lay two tiny cubs, snug and warm, but very hungry They took the cunning little fellows homo with them, fed them milk from bottle ant kept them where it was warm, and now the cubs are all right. MT. Woodcock means tt keep the old stallion till death takes hin away,