St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-11
STORIES of ANIMALS.
Strange Experience of Hunters In
the Wilds Of Pennsylvania.


SilaS GrasStieid and James Whitney,
who live on Locust hill. in Tobyhanna
township. were gathering ginseng roots
in the woods to the north of Long
swamp last Friday afternoon. They
were digging away close to path that
winds through the woods, when they
were aroused from their work by the
yell of man SOME distance to the south.
Jumping to their feet. Grassfield and
Whitney ran III the direction of the
voice until they came to where two
tees lay across, several feet apart. Be
tween the trees Darius Buell., an ac-
Quaintance of theirs. was struggling
with hear. and they pitched in. drove
the bear off, and released Buell..
Buell. had been trudging along the
path with quarter of mutton Cd his
shoulders. and the bear had slouched
out of the bushes and chased him quite
distance, growing savagely anu grind
ing it's teeth on the way. 1t continued
TO follow him, while he yelled at 1t, and
just as Buell. clambered over the first
fallen tree the bear knocked him down
and trid to get possession of the NUT
ton. He fell upon it, and the bear was
in the act of rolling Buell. over with it's
nose when GraSSteld and Whitney
rushed to the spot.
Although the bear had been driven
off by the men. il didn't go far. The
scent of the mutton had evidently
sharpened its appetite and made it
bold, tor it faced the men. with its fore
feet on the log. licked its chops con-
stantly, and shifted and snurted. None
OF the men We're armed with anything
more deadly than jack-kniveS, and it
was quickly decided that they could
bleed tie bear to death with their
knives if they could stun it on
the head first. Grasstield and Whitley
then clrcled around on either side uf the
bear in search of log. or bowlder with
which to knock the bear senseless, Buell.
keeping the hungry animal at bay with
the leg of mutton in the meantime.
That didn't work very well, for no
sooner were Grasstield and Whitney out
of sight than the bear charged on Buell.,
captured the mutton. and waddled off
into the bushes with it. Buell. sang out
the latest news to the other men. and all
three Joined in chasing the bear.
In thicket, about thirty rods away,
the bear stopped and began tognaw and
tear at the meat. The men hustled it
out. but it didn't leave the lhicket with
out the mutton. and a little further
ahead 1t again came To halt and started
to satisfy its hunger. GraSstieid ana
Whitney thru Sprang at the bear from
opposite sides and stabbed it in the
throat with their jack-knives, and the
hungry brute reared. tilrasned down the
bushes, and soon bled to death.
Charles Lands. of BoWlnan'S Creek,
started out early last Saturday morning
to shoot partridgeS. At the foot of Bear
Trap Ridge he saw fox racing along
with bird in his mouth. and he pulled
up and sent 4 charge of No. shot at
the flying red fellow. The fox came to
a sudden halt and was kicking feebly
when Lands reached it. The bird, a
fine cock partridge, was still in Rey-
nard's mouth, and the hunter pulled the
fOX's jaws apart and set the bird free.
In moment the partridge f1uttered
soon caught it and brought it back, and
Landis got both fox and partridge.
While on his way to Bishops Pond
with his plckerel tackle one morning
last week Arson Goodyear. of Sterling,
got glimpse of a strange animal in a
piece of woods. Hsscanipered under q
root. out of sight. and Goodyear dashed
strong hook to the butt of his rod and
went to poking in the dark after 1t.
Pretty soon he hooked on to something,
and the something hooked on to some
thing else and hung back as though it
wanted TO remain III the dark right
along. Goodyear pulled steadily on the
rod, and in a few seconds something
souealpd family, released it's hold and
hoped clear out of the hole, with the
hooked fastened in its hide just back of
the shoulder. it Was male OpOssum,
the first one that has been seen in that
neighbOrhood in eighteen years.
An otter with a good-sZed trout in
his mouth came splashing out of Bell
Meadow BRONX just as George Van
Fleet, of Clifton, was going after his
cows on recent morning. Van Fleet
set his dog on the otter, ami the otter
dropped his trout and plunged into the
brook. The dog sailed in after it.
caught 1t by the tail on the opposite
bank and swung it around SO swiftly
that both animals tumbled into the
curled right up and bit the dog on the
nose, and the dog let go OF the tail and
maie for the Otter's ear. Then MIR. Van
Fleet jumped III and chOked the otter to
death.
While still-hunting for deer on We'd
neSday of last week David G. Arnold,
of Panther Greek, srw wildcat worry
ing poocupine in forest glade on the
summit of Little Shiney mountain,
down in Spring Block township. The
pOrcupine lodged right and left, crawled
over logs. crept under bushes to get
away from the wildcat. and the wildcat
kept in front of its prey, avoided the
dangerous quilts. and every now and
then nipped the prOcupine on the nose
and jumped away. 1t frequently struck
at the porcupihe's throat with its claws.
and the bristling little animal tried to
get away from its tOrmentOr by turning
tail. Then the wildcat would run around
it and give it another clawing on the
nose. aud it kept that up until Arnold
banged away and killed it. The porcu-
pines nose and throat had been badly
torn by the wildcats teeth und claws,
a nd Arnold said he put an end to its
sufferings with bullet.
A foXhOund belonging to Giles Mar
tin, of Monument Creek, got himself
into a painful scrape on Peachstone
mountain one day this fall. He was
running ahead of his master among the
underbrush, when he suddenly sprang
at something. and Immediately began
to cry as though ne was in great pain.
Martin dashed after the hound, and
found that his cries of distress were
caused by his having pounded upon a
porcupine. Three quilts had pierced
his tongue, two had gone through the
thin flesh at the gambrel joints, and he
was pretty well decorated about the
body. With pair of nippers Martin
pulled out all the quilts he could, and
the hound was sore all over for three