Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-03-17

MIN. Nhen ne got 10 the spot he
walked around it couple of
times, and then he raised the
stone as high as he could and
threw 1t on the ground The bear then
danced around the stone for two or
three minutes, when he suddenly
turned tail and took bee line for the
brush. Seeing that he was going to
leave for good, banged away at him
and brought him to a STOP finishing
him with another bullet. l was anx-
ious to find out why the bear had
thrown the stone on the ground, ind so
got stick and rolled it over Under
the stone lay dead rattlesnake, coiled
up and as fat as iounder."
THAT reminds me-" said Lenk
Houghton, 'of bear saw playing
with pumpkin one Sunday morning
up on Cromwell's hill. / was working
for farmer up there, and in the fall
we fed pumpkins to the cows in a lot
next to a piece of woods. One of the
pumpkins hadn't been cracked, and
that morning saw bear march out
of the woods and begin to play with it
like kitten with ball of yarn. When
it had cuffed the pumpkin around for
awhile the bear tossed the big vegeta-
BILE so high that it broke into pieces
when it came down, and the bear then
disappeared in the woods. That after
noon | put another pumpkin there,
and before it was light the next morn
ing took repeating rifle and hid in
some bushes probably fifty PAGES from
where it lay. A little after daybreak
a bear walked out of the woods and
started to paw the pumpkin around on
| the ground. Pretty soon smaller
bear ran out and tried to take the
pumpkin away, and the big. bear
grabbed the pumpkin in its paws and
made for the woods. The little one
chased him and drove him back, and
while they were quarreling l banged
away three times and killed both of
them"
Eleven years ago last April" said
James Pratt, 81 found what no Pocono
hunter ever did before or since. was
hunting wild cats on Scrub Oak ridge,
and wasn't thinking of bear at all,
when saw an enormous she bear steal
ing through the scrub oaks. / shot her
twice with buckshot, and although she
was wounded badly she kept up until she
reached her nest, where she soon died.
Her nest was on the barren, with hard
ly any protection. 1t was made of sew
eral bushels of grass and leaves, and
in it found four cubs, all nicely COW
cred up. / raised them all, and in the
fall l sold them"
"a year or so before the war;" said
Abner landlord, -four of us were
peelng bari. on Lewis mountain.
Early one June morning a pack-ped-
dler started up the wood road on his
way to the Dutch Flats. Half an hour
later we set out for the bark-peeling,
and on our way up we heard the PED
dler yelling murder. In moment we
saw him running down the hill with
bear close behind him. Before he
got to us his toe caught in root and he
stumbled to his knees. His pack went
over his head and struck against a
stump and flew open, and pins and
needles, hooks and eyes and suspend
ers flew in every direction. The fright
ened peddler get to his feet in hurry.
but instead of looking after his pack he
ran past us and kept yelling murder.
The bear kept chasing him, and when
it came along we knocked it down
with our axes and soon killed it. Then
one of us ran after the peddler, and il
was half an hour before we could
make him believe that the bear was
dead"
81 had hog once that always fol
lowed me all over the place and into
the woods" said Henry Morris. zone
fall went up in Dark Hollow to set q
bear trap, and when I got in the
woods found the hog at my heels
While was setting the trap the hog
wandered away, and when got ready
to start for home l heard it squealing
up on the side of the hill. In two
minutes it came running down through
the woods right toward the trap. A
bear was after it. The hog leapeC
over the trap just as the bear was go
ing to strike, it and the bear got caught
in the trap and the hog went squealine
down the hill. Then / went home, got
my rife, and shot the bear. "-Cresce
(Pa.) Cor N. Y. Tribune.