The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1896-04-10
DRUIN AND THE BOAT
THE DEER STORY MAN SIGHED, BUT
SAID NOT A WORD.

THE DEER STORY MAN SIGHED, BUT
SAID NOT A WORD.
4 story of Bear and Hunter In Ca
noe With No Weapon Except His Wits.
q Was Naval Battle Royal, and Brains
Won IA Magnificent Victory.
They had been telling all sorts of
limiting stories, some almost too mirac-
Cl0Us 10 be believed, except by hunters
y;ho had had experiences and knew
what surage things sometimes occur far
away amid the forest wilds when there
re 10 witnesses. The last man had told
If deer hunting i'll the water, and
SQUAT, heavy set man sitting i'll the cor
Ter seemed particularly Interested in
tho tale.
THAT reminds me-" he said, when
he had chance to come i'll, of ali eX-
rcIienco I once had UP i'll the lake re
aion Of Canat.a A party Of us were i'll
camp there, along III the fail, and were
having great sport with the rod and
gun. We had secured specimens of all
the game and fish for which the section
tracks had been reported not far from
camp, and we We're to try for bruin as
soon as we had made proper prepare
tiunS. The day before we were to start
out ca the bear hunt l had gone off up
the shore Of the lake in light canoe
we had 10 fish fer couple Of houls
and get fry for supper. | had nothing
with no i'll the canoe except my fishing
outfit and no sort of weapon unless
the canoe paddle might be called one.
lat = man didn't need Il weapon 10
catch fish with, so I gave no thought To
it. | had fnHnd nice cave up the cove
abOuG mile from camp, and there /
stopped the canoe about 30 feet from
shore i'll deGp water and threw out NY
iino. Luck was good, and l had pulled
i'll five on SIX fine fellows and was hay
ing more finn than anybody, except the
fisherman, when [ was startled by
splash from lie thicket lining tie shore.
and the next minute a whopping big
bear was making for me lickety split
To say that / was scared doesn't hall
express il. was paralyzed. ] didn I
even have sense enough left to grab my
paddle and try to gG5 away. l simply
caught it up and held it in my hand as
] would club and waited. But the
bear didn't wait. Re was very evident
" hungry, or Eo never would have at
tackled ne cut there III the boat, and he
WAS coming straight for me. waited
for him to get close enough to bat him
one, and then l gave ii to him with the
cameo paddle square between the eyes.
Ii dazed him little but ii was far more
disastrous to the paddle, and when !
Strengthened up from delivering the
blow | lad only about two feet of the
paddle left i'll my hand. The rest of it,
Gplutered, was floating III the wake of
tho bear He gave Himself d shake after
hit him, and the neXt minute he had
caught the side of the canoe with one Of
his big paws and was manifesting 4
violent desire TO get aboard with me
SIS no weighed about 400 pounds and
was as powerful as Il horse it did not
require very strong haul 20 settle that
part Of the proceeding early, and insrea5
of his coming aboard with NE the canoe
was upset, and I went into the water
With him.
"2y this time a portion Of my wits
had returned, and I had sense enough,
- the boat Went toward the bear, to get
of into the water with the boat between
tho bear and me. ! was a good swim
mlr and had faint idea if l got head
ei toward the shore could outswim my
enemy and get away, so 1 turned, as
soou as I got Strengthened out in the
1.,i- I,o
bear IL the meantime had started
around the end of the boat, coming my
way. l DON'T know what it was, wheth-
Ell inspiration or fear or bravery, but
certainly it was something cut of the
ordinary, for as | went around one end
OF the boat and the bear was at the 9TH
er or quite pear it | was struck with an
idea, and instead Of trying speed with
tho bear for the shore | concluded to
try wits with him right where we were.
So swung on to the end Of the canoe,
which was bottom side up, and as the
bear came toward me, | tilted the other
end up, and with sudden jerk, dropped
the inverted boat over the bears head.
The next minute l was on top of tbc
boat with tho bear under me. | guess
he didn know what had happened 20
him, for he didn't seem to do anything
under there except to bump his head
against tho bottom ana growl. Though;
at first In might have sense enough {,
dive and come OFT On the other siGe
bat, Ike turkeys th&t walk into ps
through = hole heading from the onts;@.
into it, and. Hgyer Cncg looking dov..
for tho hole to get Gus AZ, ran around !
n crazy KIND OF way till they IN,
caught, tlaT bear st&id under the bo;a,
with lac o3i toI, Of it, bum ping his heaG
and growing. EJ this ti1ao was feel
ing good deal like Napoleon crossing
the Alp, II like some other great hero
and felt s.!ll more like it as | noticed
the humping and the growing growing
less every minute until finally the
ceased altogether. / didn't understand
that quito and began to wonder if tbs
bear wasn't catching ON 10 himself and
thinking Of the easiest way to get at his
dinner, when over in the clear water OF
tho lake, dozen feet or so from the
bUaF, | saw something big and dark
slowly going tow ard the bottom and
drifting away. Another look convinced
me it vas my bear, and another minute
fonnd mo swimming for the shore at ~
miles an hour, more or less. Half all
hour later l was on the spot again with
three men i'll a big canoe, and still half
an hour later found us on shore with
the body Of the bear, which we had re-
covered from the water. 1t was u clear
case Of human intelligence against
brute force, with the intelligence the
victor, Of course, but when any more
contests like that are booked | desire it
understood that I am not competing"
The man who had told the deer story
heayed profound sigh and looked at
the bear story teller with admiration. -
New York Sun.
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