Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-12
CAD LOTUS CHASE.
he Tried to Hurry-Up a Bear He Met
Up in the Hemlock Woods.
WHOOPING ONLY PLEASED BRUIN.
1t Made Him Hurry-Up. but in Entirely
the Wrong Direction.
RESCUED By A SCHOOL MISTRESS


ROULETTE, PA, June 1o.-Ons day
at Barley Run, in the big hemlock woods OF
Northern Pennsylvania, making some in
quiry as to how much pluck, endurance
and faith man must have if he stopped q
while there and thereabouts with the inten-
tion of killing trout now and then, big
bark peeler, whose name learned was Cad
Lotus, came into the tavern, looking hot
and sheepish. He sat down, breathing
hard, and mopping his face, on which the
perspiration protruded like the knobs on
crook-necked squash.
Every one in the house looked Surprised,
but not word was said for some time. and
then Cad Lotus broke the silence with the
emphatic but rather ambiguous exclama-
tion: "Durn my fool gizzard!'
That loosened landlord Joel Jebb's ton
que, and he said: "Well, Cad, what's been
workin' you up so amazin'? Been seein'
ghosts?"
Cad gave his face mother mop, and turn
Ing to the landlord, said: "Joel, did you
ever try to hurry up bear?"
Hurrying Bears Is New Thing.
'Never tried to hurry 'em up, no, replied
Joel, "but I've tried to slow 'em up, an
I've done it, too. Yes, an I've stopped 'em
square in their tracks. more than kin
tell"
"Then I wish you'd been along with me
awhile ago an either slowed up or stopped
a bear that was a hurryin' 'em up," ex-
claimed Cad.
"was you fetched in by bear?" asked
Joel, grinning.
81 was fetched in by bear, by Jinks, I"
exclaimed Cad, "an' if I'd only been took
in by bear and chawed fine I'd be feelin' a
good deal better 1t all come around jist
on account o. my thinkin' to myself this
afternoon that I'd cut over to Simmon's s
sashin' an see if he'd got any O. that cider
O. his n left. I had some of 1t last week,
an don't know when anything sot so
comf'ta by me as that did. My con-
science never pricked me none fer takin' q
little cider, providin' the cider was good,
an this O. Simmons bein' uncommon good,
1 thought I'd so over to his slashin'
an see if he had any more of it
left. So, bout an hour ago started for the
slashin'. got up into Gamers Holler, .
mile in from the road, and was crossin' the
Holler, when see bear not more than
20 f oot ahead O. me, nosin' round in
an old log, huntin for gruba The bear
kind O. s'prised me, for hadn't see no bear
around these parts for two year and better,
except that tame bear of Sally Giles, the
one she riz from q cub, an keeps tied to q
pole up the road yonder by her school
house.
Thought He Would Scare Bruin.
$50, when see this one In the woods I
was s'prised, an wished had gun so as
could gather him in. But didn't have no
gun, an not wantin' to 90 around the bear
out O. my way, I thought I'd skeer him, and
hurry him up out O. there. The bear
hadn't seen or heerd me, an so let go one
O. the unearthliest whoops I could muster
up, e1pectin' to see the bear jump and take
to his heels, half skeerd to death.
"Well, Joel, the bear did jump. He
Jumped fust rate, but he didn't take to his
heels with that powerful degree of skeert-
ness that I'd calkilated on. He didn't take
to his heels at all, by Jinks! he took to
his toes an p'inted 'em straight fer mel He
didn't look as if he was pleased at bein'
give such start while he was huntin' fer
feed, an acted as if he was goin' to find out
what meant by such COINS on.
81 backed away little lively, an the
bear, seein' that locked kind O. sorry for
raisin' such rumpus, an wasn't goin' to
hurt him, stopped and looked at me spell,
an then turned and was walkin' away. An
now come to the pint when say, 'Durn
nv fool gizzardP I got it into my head
somehow that the bear was skeert, an I
thought I'd give him another skeer to hurry
him up some more, an what did do but
whoop ag'in, not only wunst but twicet
There was either somethin' aggravatin'
to the bear about that whoop O. mine, or
else somethin' attractin', fer he turned an
a little out O. my reckonin' about skeerin'
the bear. I thought it was time for me
to git skeered myself, an did.
L felt that somethIn' had to take to its
heels, an if the bear wouldn't would, an
so 1 done that too. I skited out O. the hol-
ler an the bear follored me. The bear KEEP
on follerin' me, an he follered me so fur
and so business-like that when come along
to nice chestnut saplin' that was easy to
climb, 1 clim it. I hadn't more than got
settled snug up in the tree when the bear
come prancin' up to the foot Of it, an went
to nosin' an scratchin' around it, an look
in up at me as if he had halt noshun to
shake me out. While the bear was mean
Qerln arOUnU at tue IOOI Vi tuc tlec L
couldn't help but think something like this:
"a good many folks says that bear won't
chase man further than enough to drive
him away from foolin' round where 1t Isl!
A bear won't hey? Well, I wish that one
of them folks that thinks that way was me,
Just now, an was him!
"While I was thinkin' like that an other
things, an watchin' the bear, the bear
seemed to git tired of nosin' around there,
an begun to walk away, awful slow, though,
an stoppin' every few PAGES an Iookin'
back as if he was halt mind not to 60,
after all
Fears Arc Quite Contrary.
"But BY an by he got three or four rods
away and went off in the brush. He hadn' t
no sooner got out of sight than slid out O.
that tree an made another break for Simon's s
slashin' an the cider-for the disap 'intment
of that cider had most made me sick.
"Joel, the contrariness O bears is amazin' !!
Seems to me hadn't gone 40 foot when
that bear headed me off ag in, somehow, an
1 had to turn tail an make tracks with the
heels lords the slashin'l I didn't have
time to shin up the tree ag'in, and so I
broke for home and trusted to luck. When
I got to the creek, q quarter miled ahead,
the bear was still follerin' the trail, positive
like, but not seemin' overpowerin' anxious.
didn't waste time to cross the creek by
the log bridge, which wasn't more than ten
foot above me, but sloshed right through,
an the water was more than waist deep
right there, at that. But the bear didn't
seem to be in so much Of a hurry that
he couldn't take time to make dry