The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-03-22

He Runs a Bear to Earth and Gets q
Hunter to Come and Kin III

He Runs a Bear to Earth and Gsts q
Hunter to Como and XIII H.
The other day Luke Grassfleld, of
Ridge, was hunting for bears around the
Big Marsh, in Tobyhanna township.
writes u Scranton (Pa.) correspondent.
While eating his lunch shortly after noon
he heard Il hound baying on h opposite
side of the marsh. The voice OF the
hound appeared to be in the sane direo-
ton all the time, but presently 1t
stopped, and before Grassfeld had hn-
she'd his lunch q large black and tan
hound crept through the bushes neal
log on which the hunter sat and be-
gan to whine and wag its tail. AT first
Grassheld said ne thought h hound
was begging for something to eat, but,
as he refused TO touch some msat that
he offered it, he concluded that 1t had
smelt him out for some other purpose.
Then h hound whined, walked off a
few steps in the direction from which 1t
had come, looked back. whined again,
and then turned about and laid its head
on Gras5fleld's knee. This 1t did three
tunes.
Thinking that the hounds master
might rave been hurt while hunting,
GraSsfeld threw the OF his
lunch away and followed the dog. The
hound was Overjoyed when 1t saw the
hunter shoulder his rifle and make a
start, and it led Grassheld to the other
side of the marsh and then down to
where a large birch tree had been torn
up by the roots. The snow all around
thA tH-t,HHnI N-n, I'D hnnN, -anlraN
down by the hodnd's feet some time be-
fore, and the dogs actions convinced
Grassfeld that there was some animal
under tho roots that the hound wanted
him TO kill.
On the way over tho hound had kept
still, but 1t began to bay and yelp furi,
ously the moment they cached the tree,
and to run back and forth with his nose
to the snow. There was q deep hole in
the ground at the base of the roots, In
which there was Il mass of dead leaves.
Grassfleld poked into it until he ascer.
tanned that q bear had holed up there.
Then he urged the hound to go In. but
all II would do was to go to the rim OF
the hole and yelp as hard as it could,
keeping at it for several minutes at q
time.
After awhile the bear sprang out and
pitched at the hound, but the old dog
had evidently been used to hunting
bears, and It leaped out Of tho way OF
the big paws just as Grassfeld blszed
away and sent a bullet into the bears
head under the left ear, killing 1t In
stsntly. The hunter 1901 found that he
had alain a bear that had recently given
birth to cubs. and he quickly dug two
tiny young bears out Of the warm nest
They were less chan a week old, and he
bundled them up in his scat and took
them home. BE tried to coax the hound
to 60 with him, but 10 Hoped of in
another direction and wac soon out OF
sight.
That night GrassHsld VENT over and
skinned the mother bear, leaving the
carcass where it lay. The cubs were toe
young 10 be raised by hand, and on Mon,
day they died On the same day Grass.
field learned that the hound belonged
to Samuel w. Triple. who lives q,
Trout Brook. three miles from where
the bear was found, and that the old
dog was In the habit Of running away
and hunting from morning till night on
his own hook.