The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-21
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The other dny Luke Grassheld, OF
Ridge, was huntinG FOR bears around the
Bic Marsh, IN 1'ubyhanna township,
writes q Scranton Q'a.) Correspondent,
While eating his lunch shortly noon
he heard hound baying on the opposite
sido Of the marsh Tho voice OF tho
houad appeared to be tn the same diroc-
ticn all tho time, bat presently 1t
stopped, md hcioro GroSsflold bad fin
ished his lunch largo black and tan
hound crept through tho bushes near
the log on which the hunter sat and be-
gan to whino aud wag It's tail. At first
Grassanld said no thought the hound
was begging for something to cat, bat,
0s no refused to touch some m sat that
no offered it, he concluded that 1t had
smelt him out for some other purpose.
Then tho bound whincd, walked OF n
few steps in the direction from which it
had come, looked back, whined again,
and then turned about and laid It's head
on Grassfold's knee. This it did three
times.
Thinking that tho hounds master
might havo boon hurt while hunting,
Grassfiold threw tho remnants OF his
lunch away and followed tho dog. The
hound was ovcIJoyod whom it saw tho
hunter shoulder his rife and make a
start, and il led Grassiield TO tho other
sido Of tho marsh and then down to
whore largo birch trso had boon torn
up by tho roots. The snow all around
the upturned tree had boon packed
down by tho hounds feet somo time be-
fore. and the dogs actions convinced
Grnssileld that there vas some animal
under the roots that the hound wanted
him to kill.
On tho way over tho hound had kept
still, but It began to bay and ycip furi'
ously tho momont they reached the tree,
and TO run back and forth with his noso
to tho snow. There was q doep hole in
tho ground at tho base of tho roots, in
which thoro was mass of dead leaves.
GrassGcld polled into it until ho ascor-
tanned that beer had holed up there.
Then he urged the hound to so In, but
all it would do was to so TO tho rim of
the hole and yolp as hard as it could,
keeping al it for several minutes at q
time.
After awhile tho bear sprang ont and
pitched at the hound, but the old dog
had evidently boon used to hunting
bears, and it loaped out Of tho way OF
tho big paws just as Grassfeld blazod
away and sont bullet into tho bears
head undor tho left ear, killing it in
stantly. Tho hunter soon found that no
had slain bear that had recently given
birth to cubs, and he quickly dug two
tiny young bears out of tho warm nest.
They were less chan wcoh old, and he
bundled them up in his coat and took
them home. lie tried to coax the hound
to go with him, but it lopcd off in
another direction and was soon out OF
sight.
That night Grass1old went over and
skinned tho mother boar, leaving tho
carcass whoro it lay. rho cubs were too
young TO be raised by hand, and on Mon
day they died. On tho same day Grass
field learned that the hound belonged
to Samuel W. Tipple, who lives at
Trout Brook, thceo inilc3 from whore
tho boar was found, and that tho old
dog was in tho habit of running away
and hunting from morning till night on
,ii5 OWE hook.