The morning call., 1893-07-16

That bear'll be back hur. It's only
question of time" said Pennington.
God help Kingsbury; he's either dead or
up sapling not very far away. Better
firea slot. Blake said he. 'and if he's
within hearing he'll yell. I'll let the dogs
take the scent. and We'll soon locate him."
| Meantime hot from Blake's rife rang
| through the forest. and its reverberatioDs
had scarcely died away when the voice Of
Kiugsbury gave answer faint and a long
distance off. The dogs WeraaaE,LagSiz IA
moment and the yells Of our partner at in-
tervals mingled with the tongue of the
dogs.
Better load up your belts with she'll
and get up IN these little trees. bows" said
Penningt n. ''for that animal will be back
here powerful SOON"
we were so excited that no second sug-
gestlon was required We could tell by the
cry OF the d gs when they reached the
scene OF action. and in little time they
pun came tearing through the bush, fol-
lowed by noise whirh greatly resembled
! an immense bowlder bounding down hin.
Look out, yelled Bennington, and a
half second later thr bald-face burst
through the underground not 100 feet
away. His face was bloody. Two dogs
and mule had fallen victims to his fury
and he came on foaming toward us. A
volley attracted his attention and with a
roar he rushed al the small trees in which
VIC Woio eldnulns. tnlnk Dut one Sn0t
hit him. for the rifles were mighty shaky.
"Give it to him." said Pen nington. "Don't
waste your fire. take a fair aim at him,
and don't pull the trigger till you can
land"
No fury could equal the rage of that
climb them, tore the bark and snapped
them with mouth which looked yard
long. In the excitement of the moment I
dropped my riff while shifting my posi-
tion,. and as il struck the ground twenty
feet below the brute ran and seized it at
the putt, crunchlng the stock like piece
of clay or glass.
The alta k became perfect fusillade,
and perhaps hundred shots were fired
before the bear gave signs of weak
enIng; snna ;ro, one Of its monster legs
with bullets. RisdoD. who by the way.
came from this city, was anxious to do good
work, and undertook to change his posi-
tlon. His foot had torn the bark from the
limb OF the little tree and it was slick as
feet went from under him and he was
preclpltated to the ground The bear.
blind and about dying. heard the fall and
stumbled and ran to the tree. The fall
had stunned Risdon or else he could have
got away.
But the fierce brute was upon him in an
instant more. Its immense jaws closed
on his thigh just al the hip and the bones
snapped like twigs.
We almost sprang from: the tree. and at
short range poured from the two remain
ing guns a b1oadside into the animal.
which ended its life. But our friend was
lnsensible and dying. Tie mass OF lners
meat fell across him. With the utmost
dlfhculty the carcass was remover irom
our PROSTATE comrade to fnd tHat Ine
claws OF the bear had cut through IN MS pooy
under the left arm, penetrating 'no cavity
and tearing hOIa in IA side.
kisdon never sp0ke-pever gave sign
that he was in danger iear or Pain' Inc
whole catastrophe wss 80 au.cAy enueu
that no effort coula mdf1 SaaS aedu % nis liie
reached his nrosrate form. and single
stroke of it's fore paw and crunch of its
Formidable laws. which in death Strug-
gle had M nsiinct other than to mangle
and kill hadeauee throngb 5 u thu trosa h.
the firing ceased. and he was white as
He wss seated in camp cleaning his
rifle wen he heard the mule bray.
Spripspg to his feet he saw the bear strike
a nell. The bear was standing on its
End legs, and the frightened Englishman
swore it looked 10 feet tall. and as big as
an elephant. 1t growled a time or two
and r came directly, toward the camp.
mat was enough; Without stopping
"S y" wv AILSSUuEy UeQ lk6
deer. scared literally out Of his
lenses, lenses st.. Inc bear came. though. and
70 una him. AS he heard it crashing through
me Drusn, and nearing him. he scaled
,mail tree. where the bear was when the
logs came up. Two of them were killed
ma the third ran back. We asked Kings
onry why he didn't climb tree at camp.
3us ~ ne declared that he never thought of it.
d DE was so badly frightened that he only
'hought of running away. A more terrible
o0king creature lie never saw.
We could bear out that statement. will
1e7er forget the look Of that monster an