Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1894-07-12


and placed his fingers to his mouth to
sound it when he suddenly stopped
The bear had stopped, too.
Not only this but the next moment
Ted Brady's heart took a leap INTO his
| throat, for the animal rose on its hind
feet near tree and remained stand
/ ing a full minute IS straight an
| Indian. While Jack was capable of
doing great many tricks and could
walk on his hind feet with consider
able dcXtcrity Ted had never seen
him get up with such grace Of move
ment.
The bear appeared to be looking
straight toward the house from the
tree where he stood, and Ted, who
| jumped down from the log ard sprang
to Il tree near by, looked on with a
boys keen curiosity.
Maybe it's another bear rushed
through Tcd's mind. "And what if it
isn't bear at alp
/ lie was not close enough to get
very good look at the animal and in
order to do so he crawled along the
ground TO another tree, from behind
which he took another look.
BY this time the bear had dropped
to the ground again and all at once
Ted saw that it had cut ear, which
was just what Jack had had for three
| years,
Once more Ted was in the act OF
whistling to his pet, when the animal
| started toward the house on all fours
running over the ground in a manner
not exactly in accordance with the
usual locomotion of bears but not
very unlike either.
~ never saw Jack run that way
before, cried the boy as he bounded
on. "He is heading for home and
will beat me there il don't make bet
ter time Maybe Jack has been
wounded, the boys down on the creek
shot at him twice last summer, and
Ted stopped, for once more the
bear had checked his course and was
moving across the clearing toward the
little cabin in one of whose little win
dows Mrs. Brady had set light. Ted
watched the bear moving over the
stumpy clearing with his head point
ing toward the shanty, hut all at
once he saw more than this
That which he saw was enough to
thrill him as he had never been
thrilled before 1t was nothing less
than moccasin, where one of the
hind feet of the supposed bear should
have been, and the more he looked
tho surer he was OF this
The skin before nm was jacks,
but an lndlan was inside IT, ana OF
course Tor some diabolical purpose
well did the red man know That ne
could never get beyond the door Of
the BRADY cabin IN ms own dress
therefore, probably knowing some
thlng about the BOY settlers pet, ne
mad Killed Jack IN the forest ana hao
undertaken this stratagem to carry
OUT ms eVll designs
lea knew uhat II ms inoVher snouiu
soc ohe supposed oacN III uhe cie"rIng'
sne would haSOen 10 open inc uoor 10
h'ih' WITHOUT SuSpect,ng uhyVn.ng
wrong, ana "heh ne thought OF the
| peru tha1 mehaceo hef ne co uld
hardly suppress cry
me Ir'sh ooy h"u reaeheu tlie fringe
oil thG clearing ana IN the orlll'ant
moonlight ne saw Vhe OBJECT mat
moved across IT, Not Il moment was
TO be Iost' yet a shot must tell Tor II
thrown away the young marksman
would nave upon nm one OF the
dread seourges oil the frontier ana he
might be the hrst victim OF savage
Jury IN that locality
AS uhe BOY trappers rlhe touched
ms shoulder the cabin door opened
ana he caught slght OF ms mother,
she mad opened the door Tor Jack
and the redsItin had only to spring up
and with bound carry himself be
yond the threshold Controlling ms
nerves with the coolness OF an old