Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-11-28

.sy.s.1.. With a tempting piece of pork
| just inside the sill. A mile from the
cabin the men separated to go to differ
emit runways. Soon afterward, while
Quick was making his way down a steep
pitch on the side of the ridge, he caught
his foot In a root and fell heavily to the
ground. Quick is genuine woodsman,
and If he had received any physical in
jury in the fall it must have been seri-
GUS to cause him any great concern; but
In falling he broke bottle he had in
his pocket, and the contents were lost.
There was nothing left of them but the
aggravating aroma that ladened the air.
1t was cold day, and there were to be
possible long hours of weary waiting OF
runway for the coming of deer.
There was at the cabin more of what the
bottle had contained. Quick stood his
gun against tree and hurried back to
headquarters. He stepped cautiously
over the bear trap at the cabin door,
and was filing a new bottle from n
demllohn when a noise outside caused
him to turn his head and look out Of
the door. He saw medium-sized bear
making Decline toward the trap
Quick was only a few feet back from
the door, but the bear evidently saw
nothing but the piece of pork. The
bear never stopped, but slouched right
| up to the snare that had been laid for
him, and got both forefeet inside the
loop. The sapling flew up with a noise
like gust of wind in a chimney. The
bear disappeared from Quicks view at
the same time. But the next second
he appeared ON the line OF vision again,
dancing and lettering around in the
open space in front of the cabin like a
ball on an elastic string. The rope
had caught the bear around the body
Just back of the forelegs. With every
effort he made to free himself the sap
ping raised him foot or two from the
ground, and kept him dancing like a
baby IN baby jumper. The bear snap
ped and snarled and snorted. He struck
and spared at the rope. Now and
then, by some particularly vicious
lurch, he bent the sapling so that he
could throw himself fiat on his back.
but instantly the stiff aud springy oak
would get its work in again and yank
the bear back IN the air until every
thing snapped. The involuntary antics
of the bear struck Quick as being so ex-
tremely comical that he at last had to
yell with laughter 1t was not until
then that the bear discovered Quick,
and he seemed to look upon the hunter
as being responsible for his extraordi-
nary situation, for he at once made
desperate attempts to get in the cabin
and have it out with Quick. He would
manage to dance and swing to the very
threshold, and then his frantic struggles
would give the saping new chance at
him, and it would lift him up and
snatch him away, his legs spreading
out to all points of the compass, like a
big spider swinging at the end of its
depending web.
When this had been repeated three OF
four times Quick began to fear that he
would burst with laughter and the bear
with fury unless something was done to
put a stop to the circus Quick's gun
was mile away. He was about to look
around and see what he coald find to
kill the bear with when he saw another
bear, good deal bigger than the one in
the snare, come ambling out of the
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