Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-02-04
A LEFT HANDED BEAR.
AID the Hard Luck Of Some Pennsylyanis
Hunters' Dogs

"eht~f DokH
"Guess you fellows never tackled q
left handed bear" said an old Pocono
hunter to a group Of bird shooters the
other evening. " ldi6G'texactly tackle
one myself" he added. but ] saw one
fight two dogs over at the head of
White Oak run last winter, and he
didn't use his right paw INC Ne and
Charley Petty put white bulldog
and a oan hound on the bears 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 up. Then the yelping of the two
grew louder and sharper. We hurried
ahead and found that they had caught
up TO a large bear and were worrying
him. The bear tried his best 10 get
away in the scrub oaks, but the dogs
pressed him so hard and nipped his
hind legs and tanks SO often that he
backed up against a rock and got mad.
He was mighty mad, too, but the dogs
didn't seem to care a snap if he was,
for they both kept pitching at him,
and every time they mede a lunge he
brought his left paw dogn with force
enough to break q cows back. We
might have plugged the lear with bull
Gets right there, but the eogs appeared
TO enjoy teasing him, and pretty soon
the bulldog made a LEAF aud tried 10
grab the bear by the nose Then that
old left paw Of lis got in it' fine work.
He brought il around sideways this
time. The bulldog failed W grab his
nose, and before he 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 paw and got
Knocked into the brush, twenty feet
off. The bear didn't try TO use his
right paw once, and, when lac had
cleaned both dogs out, he waddled off
a cool as you please and we shot him
dead"
Il never met a left handed bear, >
said another old Monroe county hun
Ter, but | ran across as tough "A killer
as your left handed bear was vas
guiding u party Of city deer shooters
through the Knob mountain district at
the time. On the third day u of the
city fellows got tired Of standing on
runaways, and so he took his setter
and shotgun and went off by himself
after rutfed grouse. founk a bear
track in the snow C Knob pond
that morning, and the deer shooters
said they guessed they would just IS
soon hunt tue bear for a change. So |
got three dogs and put them on the
track and stationed the city chaps here
and there. The dogs hustled the bear
into a swamp and then out Of it. On
the edge of the swamp one OF the dogs
got in his way and was killed, and be-
fore any of MS could get a shot at him
he took the back track and disabled
another dog. The third dog was too
sharp for the bear, and bounded him
into the swamp and out four or five
times. Finally the bear gave up try
ing 10 hide ia the swamp and headed
for a rayine half a mile of. The fun
niest thing OF 1t all was that the bear
ran right into the neighborhood where
the bird hunter was trying 10 find
grouse. Before the bird shooter had
q chance TO realize what all the *
ing in the brush meant, the bear
crashed through the saplings close TO
him and appeared in sight The
grouse hunter said his first thought