The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-17
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on woifslSn coat and the wolves legged
1t out OF the pen the moment they go,
sight Of me- | pulled off the coat and put
it behind a tree and the wolves, when they
stopped to look back, acted as II they had
been scared by a false alarm. When they
saw that the overcoat wasn't in sight they
didn't care any more for me than for a
sapling. They Immediately returned to
the deer pen as bold as you please. and I
shot the whole five as fast as ! could load
and fire.
1.-THE next winter I got a buffalo skin
overcoat down at Lock Haven and the
first time | wore 1t got sight OF a bear
near Blacksnake swamp. The bear was
paving Ia the snow for something to eat,
and didn't see me- After getting down
on my hands and knees, with my head to-
ward the bear | broke a stick to attract
his attention. His head went up as quick
as a wink, and, giving three or four sharp
snorts and shifts, he came lungng through
the snow right at me. 1 arose as soon
as the bear started, and on he wailowed.
snorting and growing, as though the
taller / got the madden it made him. /
wasn't a wrestler, and on that account /
was compelled to stop the bear with a bull
let But wasn't he angry? l never saw
anything to beat it.
The buffalo skin was a strange thing to
the wild animals around here. and they
QIQn ike IL q DIT. II ATTRACTED the pam
Tiers more than it did the wolves and
bears, and it was a profita investment
While fixing one of my snowshoes in the
woods north of Beaver Run one morning,
two panthers approached me silently from
different points. I sped them In time, and
/ shot them both within $50 feet of me.
Those panthers wouldn't have shown
themselves if II hadn't been for the buffalo
overcoat.
"One winter Joel Wright, who used to
hunt and trap all the way from the Loyal
sock to the Mehoopany, rolled up his coon
skin overcoat and placed it on q log in the
woods till he could so over a knoll and look
at one of his traps. When he got to the
top Of the knoll on his way back he heard
a bear believing down in the hollow as
if it was challenging another bear to
fight with him. In a minute Joel caught
sight of the noisy bear, but couldn't make
out where the other one was. The chal-
lenger was slouching toward the log on
which the coon skin overcoat lay in a
bunch, and Joel made up HIS mind that the
bear had got scent of the coat and was
about to tackle it.
Joel had better fur coat at home. and
he didn't care much what the bear did with
the one he had on the log. Anyhow, ne was
going to watch the bear, and, IL he got
the better OF the coat, all right. He could
see tQat the Ola IEliOW W DIS aNSIy bt1OEE ne
got within ten rods of the log. Rushing up
to the log, the bear seized the overcoat In
his paws and began to squeeze and shake
it as IL it was a thing Of life and that he
held an old grudge against. Joel tramped
down the knoll then to see all the fun at
short range. and pretty soon the bear gave
the coat a dreadful hug, gave out a yell,
fell over backward, and went spawling
and rolling in the snow. Joel knew what
the trouble was but he did not say a word
The bear d had his own way. and he was
as dead as a flint when Joel got to him
JoePs hunting knife was In a pocket of
the overcoat, and the point Of it had
pierced the heart of the angry animal
when he Rugged the coat 10 his breast
in a fit of rage.
"The wife Of Nathan Wilbur threw her
husbands coon-skin overcoat across a
couple of logs near the house one bright
spring morning to give 1t an airing while
she was making soup ia the yard. In a
little while a panther sneaked from the
timber, sprang upon the coat, and started
to tear il to pieces. Mrs, Wibur's tame
porcupine had crept under the coat and
the panther clawed through 1t and got its
feet full Of quilts. The surprise and pain
made the panther dance and scream, and
Mrs Wilbur. who always knew just whac
to do, pounded the panther to death with
an andiron.'