Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-15
IET ON THE TRAIL
, Path 90 Marrow That Neither
 Souid Pass Hia Foe.
h Was Inevitable for One. and Rs .aSe ss Own way-A EhruiIaE ErAg- sdy ID the PiBRI MonatAsBs of
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 }To had followed the right-hand side
 shs gorge up to noon. when we built Gss and prepared for dinner, writes . .5orges sponaenEoi the Dstroit Free Press. At DC time were We less than one hun scea feet aboye the bottom, and sons- ines tAe height was doubled.
 have spoken Of it as gorge. It was osse of the great Srifts in the PiDai HfggHtaiuS of southern Arizona - in some places valley half q mils wide iR others narrow, deep and dismal can Tln not more than fifty feet across.
 Opposite us as we rested, and not over & quarter Of a mile away, the wall of tlfc canyon was almost straight up and down and entirely clear of tree or bush tt was higher on that side than on ours a eGll of two hundred feet to the rocks low. We were slipping our coffee, then we suddenly caught sight of an ,ujsct moving along the face of the op- posite cliff, We could not see it, bat there Nas evidently a ledge which furnished foot-path, We at first took the object for bear. but go sooner had the old trapper got on his feet than he observed: Its eRly a mountain pony, boys" 1t was ehestnus-colored pony weigh ing about five hundred pounds. with 8 very shaggy coat He wss descendant Of the g id horse of the plains. but in- stead of following them over the prai- ries he had taken to the hills. His breed used to be as HsDsF0Gs tz tss Finals as goats, and they had She com pGny of large numbers of buhaloes which never descended to the Valieys. The ledge must have been . very mar TOW one. for we saw the pony move slowly and with caution. He had come almost opposite us when a second ob- feet moved out from behind 8 rock to the east of us. We at hrst supposed 1t to be another pony, but the trspper no sooner set eyes on it than he whispered:
 Its big cinnamon bar, and we are going bo see some funl"
 No sooner had the bear moved out than he was face to face with the pony, though a distance of some fifty feet separated them. The pony threw up his head and uttered snort of alarm, while the bear sat up and looked at him. That vas not che first wild beast the pony had seen in his rOaDings through those lonely mountains, but it was the first he had seen under such circum- stances. The ledge was net wide enough for him to turn about. What would he do2
 The bear was in no hurry. He seemed to be sure that he had his din- ner safe and perhaps close view of the pony was a novelty so him. Two of us got ready to shoot. hoping to drive hin away, if not kill him, bu; the old trap per motioned us back and said:
 ''It is the way God ordainedi let His rules stand"
 The pony had perhaps seen US from the first He now looked over, seem ingly in appeal, but he found only pity. He started 70 back down the trail by which be had come, but he had not moved more than a yard when the idea vas abandoned. The trail was too nar- row He advanced to his former posi- ton, and then looked straight across the gorge into OUT faces.
 God made it so-He made 1t sol" whispered the trapper, as he heard movement on our part
 For perhaps five minutes the bear and the pony faced each otber and we could not see that either moved in the slight est. Then the bear began a slow ad- vance. The pony stuck his head out on q line with his body and uttered sort Of whistle through his nostrils-
 He'd fight if he had a show, bat he hasn't got one whispered the trapper.
 The pOny's under lip fell down and showed his teeth, and his ears lSeIe iaia bzcs like an enraged cats. As the bear drew nearer he raised one fore-foot and then the other, and struck them sharp .iy on the rocky path.
 Nearerl Nearer! Nearer!
 The bear did Bot walk, but hitehed himself along foot by foos while he kept his great paws swinging in the air. He evidently suspicioned that the pony would attempt to junp over hIn. Now they are fifteen feet apart ten now only five. Now the pony utters 2 scream of alright or anger and the shorts of the bear come plainly t0 our ears. They face each other for a full minute, and every one of US is trembling as if personally menaced.
 Swishi The bear gathered himself and made q rush, roaring loudly as he did SO. Quick as he moved, tbe pony moved quicker. It was death on the trail ahead-death on the great bouId- CTS in the bottom Of the gorge. He choose the latter, and as the bear rushed he reared up, wheeled Uo the right, and sprang far out into space Nith suck a cry of terror as human beings have ut tered when they went down 70 an awful death. Peering ever the rocks, we saw his dead and uisngled body on the cruel rocks below.