The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-25

ance could reach me. In little while the basr
was there and he would stand on his hind feet,
take the log In his fore feet raise il IN and
look al me Ike q man looking through q field
glass, only the bear would wink with the ut
most degree of mischief He repea.edlv threw
the log on the ground as hard as he could. and
not being able to break IT, he tried TO guaw iato
~, Dnt ne had already ruined his teeth, and be-
siaes the tree was beginning 10 petrify whicf
made II much too hard for him
All other efforts having proved futile he
started the log TO rolling down the mountain
side ana away we went. the log, the bear and
over the sulphur mountain, through the
geysers. over the cliff and finally into the big
lake. Now, the rascal thought he would drown
me out lie repeated his antics as if playing
with held glass. He would stand on his hind
feet and tread water, while he held me and the
log out at arms length with his forepaws, and
wihkeo ana blinked at me. Every now and
tnen ne would souse the log down into the
water ana try to drown me out. At last diyed
down and swan some distance under water. and
Wnen came up, he was walking erect on the
ihke, Ieading water and looking for me. So
soon as be spied me, he swan after me, but /
again eiuded him by diving. He saw that had
the best Of him, and he decided on practicing
new tactics. He swan off down to the Great
r aith OF the Yellowstone and began TO tear them
out, hurting immense blocks OF stone up to the
tops oil the canyons sides and leaving the print
OF ms paws on every stone
just before he got the lake drained dry, I
swan TO the lower end, divea under him, and
came out below the falls AS ran toward my
camp looked back and saw him galloping
around among the fish on the dry, dusty bed of
the laka He was looking for me and when he
discovered the route which / had taken, he
bounded rapidly toward me. But before he
could overtake me, / reached the camI, OF our
party; we all seized our guns and fired leaden
nail into his enormous CARCASS, and when he
was dead we proceeded to take care of the meat
We mad bear steak enough to last US all win
Ter; the skin made a fine substitute for tent,
tepee lodge or wikiup; the claws were con-
verted into scythes; the teeth were used for
seats under the trees; and the skull was made
70 take the place of stall for my packmule.
Inc eyes were preserved for use in the
great telescope in the Lick observatory The
bones oil the legs were sent TO New York and
taken care OF as braces and supports for the
brooklyn bridge, while the spinal column was
TO constitute the main part of the bridge itself;
the bristles and pin feathers were made into
enormous street-sweeping machines, while the
OIL taken from the carcass was transported TO
salt Lake City ana used exclusively for keeping
fuit the grease vat in which the saints were
anointed; the breath of the bear was put up in
along the Northern Pacific railroad during luIl
III the zephyrs of nature; the liver and lights
were sent TO Menlo park, where Edison ex-
tracted the subtle principle which illumines the
cities and propels street railways.