Feliciana sentinel., 1892-10-22

the stove and hit him on the s,mp with {
the red hot end Of It. The hot iron I
,iuped his hair and burned sdstreak IN
his hide, and with cry r pain ne
.nrauv on to the c:t ID Christmas trees I
.ra vent to rolling and athrashing 8
among the green boughs. }tc sna'led
and snapped and made the frpHen limbs
crack. and in the moonlight Lcould see
that he was trying to lick the burned |
spot on his back. flung the poker at
him. and he clnmbcred over the trees
and Law down in the other end o1 the car
..,rhe rear brakeman was coming TO.
ward the cabjcae ON the car ahead OF
the tree car, and when I ssre out that
a bear was tumbling in the trees, tho
brakeman swung his lantern and yelled
at the bear. The other brakeman soon
ioined him, and the two tegnn TO throw
chunks of CRATE coal at the big o'acp
brute At first the bear Paid no atten-
| ton to the flying coal, but the chnnks
came 50 thick and fast after while
! that he Jumped nip. grabbed small !
spruce tree and started after the brake" !
men. They retreated toward the en-.
| pire in good order, and the bear chased
| them to the fourth car. where he stuck
| the butt OF the tree in the coal ana
crouched behind it. As soon as the
t,raLernen saw that the bear had halted
| +hev Ared more coal at him. 1t was up
grade all the way: there was no need
Of the brakes. and desiring to see all
the fun there was, I ran to the second
coal car and sat on the brake. Ihe
bear stood the fusilade TIL several
chunks of coal had struck him, AMI
then he picked up the tree and chased
the brakeman over three cars more
where he again planted the tfee III ths
coal and got behind 1t.
..The fireman was the only man Oh
the train who had a revolver, but 1t had
o,lv two cartridges. One OF tho brake-
men got the revolver and went to bitH-
in, aIvay at the bear without warning
me to get out of his range. One OF the
, bullets whizzed past mo pretty close
, and the other stuug the pear an" mace
him dance around on his hind feet. 1t
, didn't hurt him much, for he soon flung
!, tho spruce tree over the side Of the car
and Law down and begnn to lick h's
l.. wounds. Then the brakemen got a Dig
: poker from the tender and made an
other attack on the bear. lie dtdn
q | give them chance to hit him, Tor nc
:. ran back to the last coal car and sent
g me l<iting to the caboose. The brake
men followed him to the last car. ano
r them back to the engine.
. "It was still up grade, and we wer'
# approaching tiio poiat near foconf
"a Summit, where the down grade began
- and where the bralecncn wonid have t.
:, man the brakes all the way down t
If Spragueville. When l saw that IN
"a hear had cha sca the brakemen to tn
!. engine ran out on the tres car, havln
"a made up my mind to stop the train an
,- drive the bear OFF afore I'VE struck tn
se down grade, = mile or so beyond. "hl'
IT. I was thinking of this the bear becan
- greatly agitated all Of 4 sudden. n
ne brakcmen were on the engine, ana IT
il bear ran back and forth on she secon
car. looked over the edge OF the car, AT
al acted as il he was going to jump off.
40. ..Hc was afraid to take the chance
se, and all at once he sPrang to the orak
,v, grabbed it with his paws and turned
az like a man till he had set it as tight I
go, he could. Then he skipped to the c
"a bshind and set the brakes, going fro
,as that to the third and fourth cars, whe
,-o he did the same On seeing what Il
er- bear was up to. the engineer smut
VOW steam, and BY the time the bear n
md set the brake on the sixth car the ira
na- came to a stop. AMI jlst before we e
an to the Pocono Summit station the DC
thy backed down the s'ae -, -, W
ont cool as vou pleasc. waddled into t
If brush on the south side OF the track
he. though nothing had happened II
is pointed toward Hungry Hill. The oS
ids had ridden hve mics WIN W., H'N
by though ne han 2o"oie" Ivy supp
cider, I wasn't {. bit sorry that he l
taken possession of the train and ruI
to suit himself. Two years a!ter";
a Pocouo hunter trapped the bear
the Tamarack swamp, seven miles from
railroad. He still had my poker hr;
ram on his rump and in his riSh, >houi
ran there was "A revolver bullet thst on
an =, ,.---a-. ,,,I ErcI n, him N
tern S