Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1892-01-30

willing o cheerful. When the young
bear got so he could do the work well
Peggy Ann-disappaared again.
81 see it allr said Jim. The poor
oil bar can't stand it to be around the
farm without Old Blacky and she didn't
have the heart to leave MS short of help.
Soon as she got her son all broke INTO
the harness she left the farm an has
gone back to the wilderness to die
amongst her own TO ks
That was Jim's theory of Peggy
AIMS disappearance and I'm not go
ing to say he wasn't right. Well, no.
body ever heard anything ot the old
bear, and three years and more passed.
Last month Jim Bonesett thought he'd
go out and kill a few pheasants. He
was sneaking along through the woods,
when he jumped a big bear ont from
the roots of a fallen tree. The bear
went bang against another tree in his
hurry to get away and evidently think
ing that Jim was responsible for this
humping of his head, he turned and
made for jim, as mad as a hornet. Jim
himself had started to run, but seeing
that the bear would catch him from
behind and have him at disadvantage,
he turned and gave bruin a charge of
bird shot, The shot didn't stop the
bear and the next thing Jim knew the
bear was upon him and had him down
and was clawing and chawing away at
MIN at a fearful rate. Somehow, he
doesn't know how, Jim managed to
get out of the bears grasp and to his
feet. He backed away and the bear
carne tearing at him again. Jim gave
up then and would more than likely
have been II dead man within the next
five minutes, when swish, swash, ker.
Josh can't something through the
brush and before the bear got to Jim
another big bear jumped on the scene.
"Go way! so way Jim shouted,
not knowing what he was at, he was
so scared. Go way! One O. you can
git away with me easy enough"
"Bnt the second bear Just gave one
look at Jim and then threw itself
against the other bear like a locono-
tive. Jim said that it thrashed the
first bear around so that as soon as it
could get a chance it went limping and
bleeding away as fast as its legs could
carry it. Then the second bear turned
toward Jim, and, taking a few steps,
raised its right fore paw.
PEGGY Ann, by the great cork.
screw! yelled Jim, and the next sec
ond he and the bear that had saved his
life were hugging n another, while
jim jumped for joy.
"Sure enough, the rescuing bear was
old Peggy Ann, and Jim induced her to
go back to the farm with him. She
seemed glad to get back to the old
place, and when Sa.sy Sam, as they
called her son, came in from the back
orchard, where he had been turning
the cider mill, she rushed up to meet
him. And what do you suppose the
ungrateful young rascal did? He
looked contemptuously at his old
mother for a moment and then struck
her alongside the head a blow that
Knocked her PROSTATE at his feet,
Then he marched on, not even conde-
scending to look around. Peggy Ann
got up, looked sorrowfully after Sassy
Sam and then crept away to old
Blacky's grave in the orchard. She
lay down by the grave of her foster
mother and they didn't disturb her.
Next morning she was there vet, and
when Jim went out to fetch her in 10
give her some breakfast she was dead.
Her heart vas iist broke;' said
jim,
TIL knocking down OF his mother
oy Sassy sam seemed to put It in his
head thai Ne was the boss of things on
the farm and he went to running