The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-10-28
A FRACTIOUS BEAR.
Extraordinary Story of a Dog and Bear

Extraordinary Story of Dog and Bear
Fight.
Oils BY, Skinner-creek woodsman, has
owned tame bear for over four years. His
name is Mike. and he was very much at
tached to large, coal black Newfoundland
dog named Roger.
Early in the summer Mike got in the habit
of running away and staying all night. In
the morning Mr. BY would send Roger into
the woods to hunt him up, and after the
bear had stayed away for four or five nights
Mr.. BY confined him in a pen for a month.
Mike did not thrive very well, and so Mr..
BY attached strap to his collar, snapped
the other end of it to a ring in the dogs
collar and the two animals exercise to-
gether every day. They wandered through
the woods and fields side by side for hours,
and when Roger thought that Mike had been
out long enough he led him home. Once in
while Mr.. BY noticed that the bear did
not seem to like to mind the dog, but Roger
always managed to make him do about as
he wanted him to do.
One afternoon this month the dog returned
to Mr.. By's house without the bear. He
whined and ran about wagged his tail and
did his best to tell MIR. BY that something
had gone wrong. The snap was in the ring
of his collar, and three or four inches of the
strap were attached to 1t. There was
scratch on the dogs nose and his curly hair
was mussed. Mr.. BY told Roger to 20 and
hunt Mike up, and he started up the hillside
at once, taking bee line for some wood
land on the summit Mr.. By followed the
dog over the hill. and little more than a
mile from the house, In piece OF hemlock
woods belonging TO Ashley Griggs, they
overlook the bear.
MIR. BY ordered Mike to come to him, but
the bear was surly aud would not obey. He
started on a walk in, the opposite direction,
and Mr.. By cut birch CAD, headed the
bear off and gave him q whipping. He
WINGED and growled, and Mr.. BY seized the
trailing strap, fastened it to the dogs col
lar and ordered the bear to follow the dog.
Roger led the way and pulled on the strap,
bull the bear was contrary and Mr. BY gave
him another whaling. Much against his
will, the bear then followed the dog Mr..
By walked along at the bears left side.
Before they bad gone dozen rods the bear
turned suddenly on Mr.. By with q growl of
anger, struck him savagely on the right
shoulder and sent him whirling through the
bushes. Mr.. By kept from falling by grab
bling a sappling but before he hardly had
chance TO think what TO do the ugly brute
sprang at him again; He yanked the dog
off his feet when he lunged, and the weight
of the dog on the bears neck held him back
long enough for Nh By to jump out of Ills
reach. Again he sprang at Mr.. BY, barely
missing him, and, like flash, Roger bounded
toward the bears head got his teeth in the
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twnkling.
The ugly bear was on his feet in an in
slant, but Rogers teeth were still set in
his snOut, and again the plucky dog threw
the bear fiat on his side. Mr.. BY then
went to flogging the bear with stick and
for several minutes the bear was up and
down, Roger still clingng to his nose.
Finally the bear Law still and breathed
hard. Mr.. By, thinking that he and the
dog had completely subdued him, ordered
Roger to let him up; The dog oheyed. The
bear sprang to his feet and pitched at Mr..
BY once more. Again Roger seized him by
the snout and threw him down. Mr.. By re-
allied then that the bear was determined
to kill him if he could, and while Roger
held him down Mr.. BY stabbed him in the
neck with his jAck-knife until he bled to
death. Then he called the dog off. AS
soon as Roger saw that his old companion
lay motiOnlcss he licked his nose and whined
pteously and would not leave him when
Mr.. BY called to him, and Mr. By was
obliged to take the dog away by force
n Y. Sun.