Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-01-09

ana, who ID himself . great hunter In
IN the cansbrakss and along the gulf
ooast, tells . good STORY on Mr.. Ran
som, our minister TO Mexico, az Eng
lish lord and . black bear. Tho lord
bad come over for tho purpose OF en-
3oying the hospitality Of the south and
having . good hunt. Mr.. Ransom,
then . United States senator, was his
host and was determined the English
man should not BE- disappointed in
either expectation. The visitors
fondest desire was TO kill . bear be-
fore returning to England, and Mr..
Ransom promised him his ambition
should DO gratifed. So hunt va
arranged In the mountain region Of
North Carolina. The Englishman was
dressed up in q faultless sporting RIG.
He had checked knickerbockers, gait
era, peaked cap and . monocle. Ran.
som and his guest with q trusty fol
lower who vas q dead shot, set out
with . pack Of hounds. In m hour
the dogs started up three bears-a
mother and her two cubs. Ransom
and tho lord followed the pack after
the mother bear and came upon her
just as she vas flushing the last Of
the dogs. She made Q rush at her
human foes as il she would eat them
also, greatly to the Englishman's con-
sternati0n, bat the senator shot her In
short order. He wanted to give his
guest the shot, but the circumstances
were MOI con9enlal to delay and po-
likeness.
In . few moments a shot was heard,
and Ransom knew that one Of the
cubs had bit the dust, for his man
never missed fire. The question was
then how to get q bear for the lord.
Only n of the trio remained, and
the dogs in hot pursuit Of him,
judging from their cries. The senator
proposed to remain by tho body Of
the mother bear while the lord and the
man followed the dogs after the re.
naming cub. The attendant was
quietly ordered to give the lord the
shot, even IL the bear were to get
away. Ransom strolled around. listen
ing to the pack bowling on the trail,
when he CHANGED to look up, and
there waa the cub in q tree but q few
feet away. His first impulse was to
shoot; but remembering the consum-
ingdesire of his guest to have the
honor of killing q bear, he ran after
the lord and shouted to him to make
haste. At this the bear started to
come down out Of the tree, and Ran.
som was in q vuandary. IL he shot the
bear the lords heart would be entirely
broken; il he didn't shoot the animal
would get away.
At this critical juncture q happy in
SEPARATION same to the senator. After
endeavoring to push the young cub
back up the tree with his gun, he
whipped of his hunting belt, threw it
about the cubs fore feet and tied them
securely to the tree. Then he cut q
piece Of grapevine near by with his
knife and tied the hind legs in the
same manner. OF course the bear
wrixgled tc get away, and was just
about to get away when as luck would
have 1t. the E~nglishman came up hot
and excited. Give it to him! Give it
to him!" cried Ransom who had
backed away, and the lord let drive
into the poor little bears body. De-
lighted that his victim did not run
away, he fired q second shot, and while
the attendant was cutting away the
grapevine and the belt Senator Ran
som was wringing the hand of his
guest and congratulating him on
shooting his first bear. A few q
later Mr.. Ransom visited England,
and heard many stories of the hunt
ing feats OF this particular lord, who
was looked up to as quite q hero be-
cause be had killed = bear in America.