The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-14

An Engiishmsn's Dunaing Experience Ia
PIKE 4 ounty.

An Engiishmsn's .unting Experience IL,
Pike ounty.
Milford cor. Of the Philadelphia Times
An Englishman from philadelphia
came TO this town last week for bear.
His armament showed that he meant
business. In his gun case of English
sole leather were a Martini of heavy
caliber and a Winchester repeating
rife. He came prepared for heavy
weather and rough tramping, wearing
a wonderful coonslSin lined overcoat
and hunting boots with soles three
inches thick.
Just about this time of the year in
this section of Pike county we run
short of bear so offered the English
man deer. panther. mountain lion, ETC.,
but no-he must have bear. He needed
a thick bearskin rug for his ancestral
halls in Philadelphia and didn't care
what 1t was going to cost.
He secured the services OF old John
Hance. well known to Philadelphia
sportsmen who frequent Milford, and
one of the best guides in this part of
Pike county, and for nearly "a week
Hance exercised the Englishman. DER
hill and cross dale, through wood and
forest. taking him as far north as Sher-
man. Wayne county, where a large
panther was recently killed.
English returned to Milford in a dis
gusted and discouraged frame of mind.
swearing that he would not believe any
more Pike county bear stories He
gave us to understand that Pike county
inhabitants were a lot of monumental
liars and that no amount of Yankee
newspaper yawp about big game I'm
this part of the state would ever fetch
him up here again.
We were panied to hear him speak as
he did. The professional standing Of
Pike county as a yarn maker being
thus reflected upon nothing short of
bear would relieve us of the jeopardy
In which our respective regulations as
truth-tellers were placed; so IL was re-
solved to find English a bear by the
next morning.
He had packed up and was to leave
for Stroudsburg at a. m. He was sit
ting i'm the bar room of the Dimmick
house putting at his bull dog and
slipping night cap of hot Scotch
when Jere Greening and Tom Quick
came In.
Bear tracks two miles this side of
Turtle bay; bruin went through County
Commissioner Newmans barn yard,
killed a bull and two heifers and then
struck for the patch OF woods that
lines Sawkill creek" remarked Jerry to
Aunt Fanny" Dimmick.
Were organizing a party to go after
him. Any of your guests inclined to
take part in bear hunt?' chimed in
Quick.
English had arisen and approached
the bar Me good fellah," he said
that's what I'm up here fort What
time do you start I'm the morning?"
Four o'clock was named as the hour,
for bruin generally breakfasted at
o'clock i'm Pike county and by the time
the hunting party reached the bear
tracks the sun would be well up.
til
Greening, John Hance, Pop" Curry
and the Englishman. No dogs were
taken along as the Englishman's mark
manship had been criticised as "a bit
unsartin" by old John Hance. 1t was
also decided that on the trail the party
should keep in Indian file. the English
man leading Here also was a pruden-
tial clause, inserted in life insurance,
"a wise precaution." for as Jerry"
Greening demonstrated to the English
mans satisfaction:
when you see the bear there must
be nothing in your way, and when
we're hot after him, it's the leader that
takes the first plug at him"
The party of hunters had come to
within a mile Of Turtle bay when the
unmistakable tracks of a bear were OBJ
served Human footprints mixed I'm
with the bear tracks, paws and boots
made a funny traili
Some 'un Is up err mead OF US"
growled John Hance.
That's all right" cheerfully replied
Jerry Greening, this is a free country
for bear; the more the merrierr'
English, with rife tightly clinched,
was making the running for the rest of
them.
Holt on" pulled old Pop" Curry,
holt on, you koomt up NIT him too
suddent!
They had reached the brow of the
hill and there-not 40 yards away
standing i'm front of them near a clump
of bushes, was the bear, huge Rocky
mountain cinnamon.
MY gawdv gasped English, taking
wild aim, II WEAKLY didn't know CHINA
mon-were found-in-this-part Of
Pike county,
Bang! Bang Bang!!i
"Donta shoota da bearal" called a
voice from behind the ciump of bushes.
Bang again went the Englishman's
Misunderstanding, bang, bang; the
whole magazine was emptied
The two badly scared Italians broke
from cover and made for the shelter
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