The Irish standard., 1894-12-29
! GRIZZLIES OF iD AHo
q Tactt Agreement with Men = tho Early
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a Iactt AGroelnent with Men Ia tho; Early
Days Not TO Modest Each other.
n Speaking OF grizzly bears said
Judge Henry I. Warren to a New York
Sun man, 1--WE didn't look on these an
imals as particularly dangerous in
Idaho when was the United States
district attorney of that territory. Fl
man attacked one at close quarters
he sometimes got killed, but at a lit-
tie distance not much more attention
was paid to bears than if they had
been so many hogs Of. cattle. Between
human beings. and the bears there
seemed to be at that time a tacit
agreement to let one another alone.
s.One of iay hardest horseback trips
led me through a wild region where z
often saw bears. At one point theI
trail crossed an open valley, dotted
with scattering big trees and clumps OF
underb1ush, and on the further side
wound up a steep mountain side
through thick oak and pine woods
Coming down into that valley one day
saw, a little way off on my rightl
five bears, two very large ones and
three smaller ones. constituting pos
sibly family party: They were rum
ming about here and there nosing the
ground, turning over stones and knock
ing to pieces rotten logs, hunting for
mice and grubs. They apparently
paid no attention to me as I rode past,
one hundred and fifty yards away.
Ny horse looked a little wild and tidg~
eted some at the sight Of them, but 1
. fvy,
Sat ano Their time bear gave me-
considerable Of scare. had just
crossed this same valley and was just
beginning to ascend the wooded
heights beyond it. had dismounted,
and was leading my horse up the steep,
hillside when bear broke out of the
bushes little behind me and came for
me furiously, showing her teeth and
growing. I stood still, expecting to
be torn to pieces the next moment,
from the determined way in which she
came--it was Il she bear-but she
stopped just short Of selling me and
turned to dash in the same way at my
horse, and at that l dropped the bride
and made up the trail as fast as could
60. NV horse. instead of turning back
to run for life in the clear open ground
of the valley, when she charged at him.
made a detour up the hill and came
back on the trail behind me. The bear,
looking mighty ugly with her fsothing
mouth and bristling hair, kept up her
demonstrations, directing them princi-
pally at my horse. You know how a
horse, when thoroughly frightened.
will seek the company and protec tion
of humanity, and SO, do all I could to
drive him away, my beast all the time
kept right behind me with his nose at
my shoulder, trembling with fear, but
refusing to leave me, as the bear lepn
making dashes at us out of the bushes,
sometimes from one side and sometimes
from the other. {.
* didn't know then what I have
learned from the habits Of the animalsi
since, that the bear was running a bluff
on us and did not mean SO much to
haFEe us 81 to scare ls AWAY W.
doubtelly had cnbs concealed close lily
in the bushes ard resorted to a common,
trick Of the female bear to drive away
int1uders. Probablyi if had stood my
ground she would have tackled me and
i'm that case it would haze been all up
with me- She followed us one hun
6red yards or so and then, seeming sat-
isfied that she had got us fairly ON the
run, fell back into the bushes and
watched us out Of sight"