Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-10-30

unconscious. When / recovered the
same bowling. raging paudemonium
, was going on around me. Added mum,
bers had made the coyotes more ccur,
ageous, and they were pressing close
upon the grizzly. He had noty yet begun
to devour me. He would stand over me
aud growl for a moment and then make
~onSlaughtS upon the enemy, scattering
them like chat. As | turned 10 watch
him in u OF these violent attacks I
was startled 10 find that | was living
Just before the door of one of my
brother Ned's bearpeus in the lower
mountains. II was n little house, built
ana rooted with logs securely clamped
together. The door was raised and
fastened 10 the lever that connected
with the trigger inside, ! had helned
10 build a dozen just like the one near
at hand. At first my thought was Of the
grim Joke 1t would be on Ned's hear
trap to have his brother deyoured NV ,
bear right in front of it. Then some.
'hins else occurred to me. The hear
came back and stood over me. His
mouth was open to shut down or NV
neck and finish this story for mo :
could feel his hot breath on nv
race When the coyotes made a rush. and
one OF them actually seized my foot
Inc grizzly rushed afte'them furions.
~ Now was my opportunity. With su.
pefhuman eNertion born of a hiobIv
desperate condition of affairs | rose
upon my uninjured knee, and half
scrambled half rolled into the nen Ra.
lore was well in | could hear the buce
brute coming on a run. l crawled an.
othef loot further-too late-no r
reached the trigger with the tins Of NV
myers, and down shot the ponderons
aoor' scraping the grizzlv's nose as II
leil, was shut up in the bear pen
what a moment that was in my life
IL l were to live a thousand wears
never forget it. How the brutas
rage outside. \ hundred times thew
walked around the pen, the bear otnciot.
ing as chief mourner, and the covotes
shllNlng after him and bowling dis.
mally. AS for me. | Law stretched on
ground inside and laughed and
cried, and cried and laughed, for NV
nerves were gone all to pieces, and I
had a spell of what would have been
Mysteries if had been a woman. Some.
lines varied the performance BY faint.
ng comfortably away, with such a
blessed sense of security, and when
Naked again cried and laughed some
more. | staid there and kept house in
rat bear pen | don't know how many
'ours' and all the time my broken leg
.ched horribly.
After awhile a fusillade of sbots ,
oused me, and | saw the grizzly rise =,
pom his launches. Then some more ]
Oots sounded and he fell, with faint /
truSgllng motions of his arms. The {
oyotes rushed at him first; but a few i
lore shots scattered them.
Inc next | knew there stood nv S
rother Edward, looking down upon v
lie in the bear trap. | was SUFFERING V
% much to observe the expression \
I his face, but he was astonished il
eyond expression to see me alive be.
IRE him. lie was accompanied by nv
miner acquaintances of the night p
efore' I'll be hanged if it wasn't the +
eSeSt call with ii grizzly bear | ever p
Of, was the only exclamation the "
could make. b
You see it happened this way. Nv e
4ghtened horse tore like mad through p
.e timber, and passed the miners In the 81
They knew at once that an ac. n
dent had b~efallen me. They started W
.lnedIately to hunt ne up, when they 1t
me across my brother Ned, who had to
me up for another days hunt with o'
c. lhey saw where | had passed ID
rough the chaparral, and where | e'
d been thrown from my horse. The "
ints OF the bears feet had given them y
to believe was done for, and ut
e blood on the ground assured them III
a frightful death | had met. 1t was oS
ur or five months before | could ret ~
without crutches, and it was sew. ne
weeks that | lay critically i'll at W
7 brothers ranch with my shattered 81 81,
The doctors say it is marvellous W.
| lived through the first mouth. u
II feel pain where the break occurred w
.enever the weather is damp, and ~
suppose ! shall ever get over the ~
'rible sensation of that July dav, =,
en- had my life saved by the coyotes. T.
you wonder that | have a tender a.;
1t in my heart for the beasts that nine %
Of ten men think are the meanest h.
! sneakiest that e?'-Detroit Free 40,
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