New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-12-06
THE T1LE or IRiShY.
FyTEAOEDIN\RY BEHAVIOR OF FAlTHfI l.
BEAR.

BEAR
pern,ce Penn. Nov. Soon after Mr.. Sage
started his tannery on Plunkett creek S"'i q"
resident Of this place. 'he went over To the Locust
p,lao se,tiorent and bought "A tame bear. sage
,yas all business. and up to that time ne h"uh |
shown a liking for animal pets. 80 we All ""
dered what he wanted tn" bear l"i' W. "''
have TO wait long to find out. however lo' ",s,
began right away to teach frisky' as he ."''
Tho hear 20 watch the tannery at night friSky
was a fine large fellow. "A year ana nan ON"
and he was obcdient and quick to learn. TWO uos'
nod hecn kent in tn. tannery at night, Out sage
got rid of them soon As he had taught 'h' 'o"'
70 patrol the grounds. Frisky turned OUT 10 W
good deal more valuable around the P'"'o '
,be dogs and no one ever caught him off his post.
He generally stayed In the boarding houSe '''' w
cat ready to 20 TO bed. when he wouih "a'u'e
,,,.r IN the tanncry and watch II TIL daylight
When the days were long the bear would march up
the boarding house stairs and wake up All NV nv"
4, q larg. room where We all slept. If any oil us
,,., rou ont and begin To dress pretty soon frsky
woud pull the bcdclothes Of ana NJ "o"'u IT,
main in the room til he saw that every one OF
80, bad cot nm In the winter time the faithful
h.,r routed rs out Of bed good while before Gay
break Then he would get his breakfast crawl
into his pen and sleep Till noon sage i"S''"''
a big tin dinner horn to corner Oh t"' oe''
men and Frisky kept such good track oil inc u',e
-, dav that he never failed to wake up AT h'sh
, and blow a blast on the horn for the men
, q, the woods TO come dinner. Then the Dear
'nuI eat a ntt.c and snooZe TIL sunset, w "a,
~, and exercising himself around me plavt ~, a..
~ or Two Near the t,nnery sag huhs up y
hci about the size OF a locomotive Del; ia ~
zone 10 IL and taught the bear 10 pun the ~
whenever anything out OF the reEu,a t nne night
~ened around the tannery AFTER nafh. ~. ,omnrv
De-. broke out In the bark mill OF the ti'',ne .
II ,ha hear rang the bell so hard that We WIZ
al aroused. and IN almost no tiHle W. a. az h.
formed samsse ' h@d been GoPS S Fkys
o n, saved the tannery from Destruction anu ~
~oudn't have bought the bear from 'ase '"'' '''
slwrr.,,,v was good -natured and playful when OH
AZ, i,,iit when he watching the ,ahntiS ~,
woEldn't allow any one to iool n'oa' .r,ai FELLOW
tom Moves liked the bear except n cIueI & ~,
the iiPPy:us who scraped hides In the tannery I'LL
hdhi'u In a scrape with the bear There was d
NE S streak In Wells. and Frsky disco,eIrud IN
Wells u ',in on the bear by twisting his ears anu
inl Mn Instead OF resentlng the hurts rrishy
vnided Wells and Wells got II mo M me- he wa
the pe pen The tannery. In a collection OF curi3ses
watcn ii, 20 Sage there was the dried hhnd an
Wrist % and they were the only things the pear
n,fr,ad Of For some reason ne hld pe' ~,
was r ~ the hand. and Wells oiten made tne p,
horror VI rnn by grabbing the hand and jumping
howl an h,r, one summer morning, while rrisky
towa,u rchng along the line OF beds ana snaknI
wa men 10 wake them up Mes ned a as ' fnd,an
80 that ~ at the bear as he lay in bed. But this
and struc faiIed to scare Frisky; Like flash the
bear seized the han1 IN s BONE in It before
on the no s could interfere. The hand had to De
any 81 and when II got wen sage se, Mens cir,
a. Grinding bark, as ne couiun scrape "'''' my
moTS abuse Of the bear then go, to The ears
Of sage io,r,,~h Wells ordered him to. We all took
Trisky, ais'' yart az an act OF justice between
tnecesbe brute and cruel man. Mes cohum sst
70 thnmp Trsky, and one noon sne pear 'a"s"'