Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-24

yelled back How In thunder can
pull you up when can't pull myself
IN? Besides, there is another bear at
that end OF the line. The words were
hardly spoken when there came a trc-
mcndone pun from above and we were
lifted eight or ten feet. Again came
the pun and we were dangling in mid
air | slid down and polned the guide
on the cross bar.
eve hung on 70 that rope. l looked
up and saw my bear twisting squirm-
ing and turning. and apparently tang
led In the larat a glance below, and
there was the guides bear right uider
US. The guide said: what II this
ere rope brcaks2 l said; Let 'er
break; there's bear at the upper
end just as anxious and madder to get
us. FOR he In carrying 1900 grains Of lead
In his syatem.'
IAN this time the rope was being
tuggcd and pulled and we were sway
Ing back and forth. two mighty anN-
ious men. Again came n lift. and we
neared the top by ten feet more. Again
and again. and stlll once more came
that mighty haul on the lariat, and We
could almost touch the roots OF the
tree 70 which 1t was fastened. We could
see where II was tied. but II reached
back from the tree whore II was tang
led around the bear aud he
WINS Not ont Of sight.
THE hauling and Juggling ceased. A
Misunderstanding minute passed. Then
the guide said. We've got to get out
OF this. or on OF this. pretty blamed
soon; this rope ain't goln' 70 hold "A
matter OF $50 pounds dead weight for
ever; and Il win he dead weight sure
II We drop down ON that hear Climb
up on my shoulders and Toxic lok at
things Cautiously raising myself to
that position. ] at once had good
view of the ground. A glance showed
the bear completely wound up in the
lariat, the last turns around his neck.
there was blood spattered and rubbed
on the rocks; he was perfectly still.
seemingly dead My rifle lay between
the bear and myself, considerably to
tho left, 1t seemed desperate thing
to do. but must have that rifle.
"Grnsping the roots OF the treo
easily raised myself over the edge OF
the elm and crowled toward the gun.
and tn u moment more grasped ~.
Nolselessly l showed cartridges into the
magazine The boar lay perfectly still
Advancing with tense norvcs, prepared
20 fire Instantly stood near enough
In a moment more 10 see the bear was
stone dead. Hurrying to the edge /
helped the guide up; then, aftcr eX-
aiming the dead bear again, we turn
ed our attention TO the live one below.
We opened on him, aud It took but
short time to lay him out, 80 that we
were, with two dead grizzlies ans "a
mountain sheep, after u most remark
able ana exciting experience.
THE only way we could account for
being hauled up by that oear N that
when he rushed Tor me he must have
run under the lnriat. and IN stopping
and turning to save himself from GO
INK over he became entanglod. then.
fortunately for us, he must have been
seized with death ngonlea, and by roll
ing over and over again wound tho
rope around his great body. thus draw
ing us up"
ibid you get the Sheep" said Court
ney.
That's n good story. ! like such
bear Stories. said Tucker; they are
out OF the ordinary run of bear stories
and 20 TO prove what | have always
oonlcnded, viz, that gun man, u
real gun man, has more nerve than the
average man. American Field.