The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-05
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A LEFT HANDED BEAR.


And the Hard Luck of some Hunters
Dogs in pennsylvania.
From the New York Tribune.
''Gucss you fellows never tackled n
left handed bear said an old Pocono
hunter TAI u group OF bird shooters the
other evening. ~ didn't exactly tackle
one myself" he added. "but | saw one
fight two dogs over at the head of White
Oak run last winter, and he didnt use his
right paw once. Me and Charley Petty put
n white bull dog and u roam hound on the
hears track in about three inches of snow,
and the way they made the woods ring
was music. The white dog took the lead.
and for all of two miles we couldn't
keep M. Then the yclping of the two
grew louder and sharper. We hurried
ahead and found that they had caught up
with N large bear and were worrying him.
The hear tried his best To get away i'm the
scrub oaks hut the dogs pressed him so
hard and nippcd his hind legs and TANKS
SO often that he backed up against n rock
and got mad. He was mighty mad, too,
but the q didn't seem To care n snap IL
he was. for they both kept pitching ut him
and every time they made "a lunge he
b, brought his isi. paw down w. h 1a;dh enough %aSG
plugged the bear with bullets right there,
but thc log appeared To enjoy teasing
him, and the bulldog made II leap and
tried tai grab the bear by the nose. Then
that old left paw of his got in its fine
work. He brought IL around
I'LL tit11t. Ite bttItItE ~ VI kTStp Ills
nose. and before ne could get out of the
way that awful left paw struck him on the
right jaw and tore the bone loose. That
used up Mr.. Bulldog, but the other dog
was as brave as "a lion. and he faced the
huge lcftspaw and got knocked into the
brush. twenty feet oil. The bear didn't
try to- Use his right paw once, and. when
he had cleaned both logs out he wad-
died oil as cool rs you please and we shot
him dead.
II never met "a l~eft-handed bear" said
another old Monroe county hunter, but I
ran across as tough N dog killer as your
party Of city deer shooters through the
Knob Mountain district at the time. On
the thlrd day one of the city fellows got
took his setter and shotgun and went of
by himself after rufred grouse. I found u
bears track i'm the snow near Knob
shooters said they guessed they would
just as soon hunt the bear for u change.
So l got three dogs and put them on the
track and stationed the city chaps here
and there. The dogs hustled the bear i'm
to swamp and then out of il. On the
edge of the swamp one of the dogs got i'm
his way and was killed and before any of
as could get u shot at him he took the
back track and disabled another dog. The
thiriSlog was too sharp for the bear, and
bounded him into the swamp four or five
times. Finally the bear gave up trying tn
hide in the swamp and headed for u ra-
of il all was that the bear ran right into
the ncighburhood where the bird hunter
was trying tai find grouse. Before the
birsl-slIootcr lad "a chance. To realize what
all the cracking in the brush meant, the
bear crashed through the sapliugs close
To him and appeared i'm sight. The grouse
up the hill, but lie was afraid the bear
would chase him. aud so he faced the
music and fired tw" charges Of No. q shot
in the bears face and eyes. The bear
comidn't se. to travel after that, and we
killed him"
One day this fall the young son of a
nt..y NNh.. txaa al. a. ,...I
went 1, mile or So from home to gather
bcechnuts. A large, jet-black Newfornd-
land dog a~ccornpani.i the lad. and while
wag hi- tail aud trot OH as though hc had
spied amother dog aud was going tn meet
siiiu' call the dog back. He watched
him though. aud he quietly saw
larger animal and one just as
black as the dog. When the dog had
within n few yards of the other
betwccn his legs. whirIed light about
and ran past the boy as though he was
half scared To death. The moment the
hoy then saw was "a huge black bear.
turned tail just AS ~nddcnly and waddlcd
il the opposite direction as fast as he
frightened by the other. and the boy
saw nothing more of the dog until he
reached home.
Not long ago two men who live near
here took 10 beagle hound and went over
TO Red Ridge to hunt rabbits. 4 large
bulldog followed them and stayed near
them while the beagle scared the rabbits
out of the brush. All at once "a big rabbit
scaInpcrcd out of the underwood and
dashed down the slope past the men. Its
appearance excited the bulldog. aud he
gave chase at the top of his speed. When
he vas within N few feet Of the rabbit the
dog got tripped i'm some runninR vines
and was turned end for end like n Hash.
He didn't realize that he had been re-
versed, and i'm his eaRerness To get at the
rabbi he ran straight up the hill the
moment he got out of the tangle. BY that
time the rabbit was well toward the foot
of the SLOPE. and after the confused dog
had run several rods he stopped all of n
sudden. sat upon his launches aud howled
for n minute or So. much to the amuse-
ment of the hunters.
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