The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-24

from the bear, and hurrying to the window l saw standing beneath 1t the largest bull moose that the Maine woods have ever produced. The bear, not seeing the moose when he Jumped from the window. had landed upon one of the antlers, which had penetrated his abdomen, Just as reached the window the moose gave heave or ms mighty head and sent the bear about fifty feet. l was terribly angered 10 think that 8 moose should kill my ben- efactor, so I brought my gun to my shoulder and sent bullet crashing through his brain, His massive body swayed for moment like reed shak- en by the wind, then down he fell shak- ing the old camp like an earthquake,
 Hastily getting my pocket case or instruments and some anttseptic dress ing I ran to the bear, and to my great joy I found him still alive l at once removed the vermiform appendicitis, and closed the wound by taking one hundred and twenty-seven stitches, Then put about forty yards of roller bandage around the bears body and cautioned him not to eat anything Tor day or two and at the end of that time to come back and see me, shall never forget the look of gratitude that the bear gave me as he walked off into the woods. I went back into the camp, unbarred the door and sat down for Q few minutes rest s.
 ''Just then my guide walked into the camp. He stopped, looked at me for a moment, and then said:
 "'Good afternoon, sir; have you seen anything of Dr. Barber around here?' | 'I looked at him, saw he was not jok- l ing, then said: You chump, l am Dr. | Barber
 At the sound of my voice he rushed up to me exolaiming: Why, Doctor what is the matter? Have you been sick? You are not the same size you were yesterday and your hair is nearly white.
 q then told him what had occurred ! during the morning, and after had finished he said: Doctor, you are the only man that could tell me that story and have me believe it.
 "The next forenoon, as we were get ting ready to leave the camp, my guide came rushing up to me saying, Get your rifle, quick; there's bear just back of the camp Looking out l saw my benefactor of the day before, and turning to my guide I said: Who touches a hair of that bears head dies like a dog. That's what I said The bear was delighted to see me, and showed his affection in many ways. removed the dressing that had put on the day before, and, to my utter aston ishment, I found the wound had entire ly healed took out the one hundred and twenty-seven stitches and immedl- ately the bear jumped up, ran up tree, stood on his head, came down
 rolled around on the ground, and die
 many other things to show me that hi
 was as we'll as ever. As he turned t
 leave he gave me a look which I tool
 to mean, Don't go just yet; wait a lit
 tie while So we sat down and waited
 ''In about half an hour my benefac
 tor returned leading a large, shaggs
 bear that carried tin can I knew a
 once that it was tramp bear that m'
 benefactor had brought for me t
 shoot. Catching up my rife sent
 bullet through it's heart. The bear tha
 had befriended me then disappeared Il
 the woods Shortly after that we Ter
 for Blakesly camp, and upon arrivin'
 there weighed myself and found. that
 had lost thirty poundr from my experi
 ence with the panther If you, gentle
 men, should question this story, yo can see the moose's head in the. hal while the skins of the panther and tn tramp bear are on the floor befor you"
 The four gentlemen from New Tor , looked at the rugs and then at the doc l tor. but they never smiled, and it wa several minutes before one of ther : finally said:
 T wonder if it Il rain tomorrow" New York Sun.
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