The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-07-11
TOBY AND THE BEAR.
A MANEUvER OVER WHICH THE WISE
OLD NATIVES DIFFERED.

the Woods, and His Owner Wouldn't
Have Sold Him For 500, but He wasu't
Cut Out For an Acrobat.
81 had dog named Toby when
was living up in the Pennsylvania lum-
Der woods, +" said George W. Reynolds
of the National Lumber company. "He
was a bear dog. Bears, as every one
knows who ever lived among them, hate
dogs beyond everything else, two legged
or four legged, and will frequently give
up a good chance to escape from a pur
suing hunter just for the satisfaction OF
waiting for the dog that is yelping be-
hind him and taking fall out of him
when he comes up, a fall that usually
ends the dogs career, especially if it is
dog not especially trained to hunt the
bear.
This dog Toby of mine was famous
all through these woods He was &C.
knowledged to be the most accomplish
ed dog when it came to getting the best
Of bear that had ever been in that coun-
try, and if any hunter didn't catch a
bear when Toby was along it wasn't the
dogs fault Once Toby was borrowed
by a man named Crowley, who knew
where a couple of bears were hanging
out. The dog routed them out and drove
them plumb to Crowley, who could cas-
lily have shot them both, but instead,
when he saw them coming, he cut and
ran. Tim Bull, who had gone along
with Crowley on the hunt, said that
Toby just stood still and gazed in amaze
ment after the flying hunter. Crowley,
seeing that the bears had got away, socp
came back. The dog showed his opinio.
of Crowley by bristling up and grow
ing savagely and threateningly at him !
for a few seconds. Then he quit and |
went home. Ever after that Toby would |
snap and growl at Crowley whenever he
saw him.
Zone day was looking over log.
ging job had contracted for and disoov.
cred signs of bear along the creek. Mex, |
day Toby and went out to see wha,
we could do with the bear. We soon
struck the trail, and Toby located the
bear in small patch of laurels, from
which he soon routed bruin. He brought
the bear to bay in little open space in
a piece of chestnut timber. There was
no necessity of the bear turning at bay,
but he evidently wanted to get a whaok
at Toby. / could have easily sent bull
let through the bear, but having the ut
most confidence in Toby's smartness,
and seeing that the bear was anxious to
put his smartness against the dogs,
concluded to let him have the chance and
TO enjoy the sport of few minutes
maneuvering between the two.
1t was fun. Toby worried the al.
ready ugly old chap with tricks and
quick movements until the bear was
wild with rage. Do what he might, he
couldn' It get blow or bite in on Toby,
while Toby got nip at the bear at al.
most every turn. This amusing dance
lasted for ten minutes and felt so
proud of my dog that declared there
and then that it would take good deal
more than 500 bill to buy him.
''Some wise old natives of those woodA
assured me afterward that what this
bear finally did was premeditated act,
deliberately and successfully carried out
as planned. Others declared that it was
an afterthought of the bears. myself
held and hold yst that it was entirely
an accident, because will not admit
that there ever was bear smart enough
to get the better of Toby by design.
after sparring and rushing fruitless.
~ at the dog for ten minutes the bear
put his back against tree and breathed
hard for at least a minute Then it sud,
denly dropped to all tours and hurried
toward another tree rod or go away.
Toby followed, and as the bear started
to climb the tree seized it by one of its
hams. Although the dog must have set
his teeth deep in the flesh, the bear did
not stop on his way, but climbed on as
# nothing was worrying him. The dog
held on and was lifted from the ground
as the bear climbed. The higher the bear
went the tight II Toby appeared to hang
IN to its rear, and presently he was
swinging in the air 5 feet from the
ground.
1.-The sight was so funny that / just
iumbled on the ground and roared. The
bear stopped when about 10 feet up the
runk of the tree, chung there for mo-
nent, and then let loose. He came dowr = :
ike pile driver When he struck al n
he bottom of the tree, Toby was be. !
ween him and the ground. There was v
/ faint yelp, and that was all. Three :,
hundred pounds of bear had fattened S
10 pounds of dog out of all kind Of
hape. The catastrophe was so sudden s
nd unexpected that before I could re-
over from the painful surprise it gave f
ne the bear had disappeared in the lau- K
els. There never was a smarter bear 4
og than Toby, but he wasn't cut out 2
or an acrobat. There is where he made o
is mistake. There never was smarter g
og than Toby, nor was there ever a
eader one when that bear got off Of r
i'm. New York Sun.
Herr Lilienthal has for several week.
cen making attempts at flying from {
little hill artifcially thrown up for +,
be purpose near Gross Lichterfelde, il
be neighborhood of Berlin. This enter. G.
rising engineer mounted the hill with
NO immense wings fastened to his v
houlders. Then, half running, half fly, q
1g, be attempted the descent, but fire. o
uently his wings sank helpless whea z
alf way down, aud he never sGcceeded ]
i reaching the foot. One day, however,
ne wings bors the experimenter little 4
Al ther, but only to let him fall into a ,
pond. His wings were