The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-05-22

ton, ana WOulQu Z nave any run WIN
'em. The noise came nearer and nearer,
and it had become one wild wave of
discordant sound, made up of blood
curdling yells and yelps and bowls.
at don't wonder the hunters they
have out here are shy of the critters
says I. Judging from the music they
make they must be little trying to
ordinary nerves. But, then, them hunt
ers never faced Sinnemahone pam
theirs
II peeked out from behind the tree
and saw the pack coming. Iwant to tell
you that they were little the ugliest
and savagest-looking beasts had ever
seen or read of.
"'If they had WINGS says, they'd
be griffins,' for that they looked like,
more than wolves.
They were coming like the wind, and
opened on them with my Winchester.
The head one tumbled. The pack came
TO standstill, but they kept on their
terrible yelping. ] picked off 16 of 'em,
and the other 25 stood there, trying to
make out what was happening to 'em.
"'This is cowardly,' says I, and 1
stepped out and faced the %. They
were a hundred yards away, and the in
slant / showed myself they set up more
fearful yelling than ever and started for
me. I judged from that that they
couldn't see very well at that distance.
/ found l was right about that, for as
they drew nearer and I came better
within their focus they began to slow
up. and finally stopped dead. maybe 20
yards away. They stood there, actually
struck dumb. / took step or two
toward them. Then saw their eyes be-
gin to bulge. I took couple more
steps, and every one of them terri
ble-looking beasts turned tail and tore
back through the timber so fast that
they were out of sight almost in fash.
Lucky they didn't see me first, says
I. Il wouldn't have got shot at 'em if
they had
II picked out the biggest and ugliest
one of the 1e had killed to carry in as
a trophy, and started for home. ! was
disappointed, though.
Timber wolf amt my size!' says 1.
I must stir up silver-tip.'
"The timber was thick where 1 stood,
but, looking ahead through the trees, /
saw an open space. Istrolled over that
way to see what sort of prospect spread
out from that spot. I found the open
space to be a wide plateau, extending
along the face of the hill long dis
tance. Walking to the top of the bluff,
saw that it terminated abruptly and
lad perpendicular faces 1t overlooked
q narrow valley, on the further side of
which was a dense growth of timber
which covered slope. that led up to a
high, rocky mountain two or three
miles away. The valley was not more
than a hundred feet below where 1
stood. and after momentary glance
at an interesting group of animal life
that was for the time enjoying itself
in the valley / let my eyes wander over
the charming picture that the vale. the
woods and sun-capped heights spread
out in Incompatible panorama below,
beyond, around, above me. After lili-
gering a long time in rapt admiration
of the scene at last let my eyes rest
on the representatives Of the animal
kingdom that my first casual glance
had noted. These were a collection OF
bears. There were Is of them, and
from their enormous size and formida-
BILE style of makeup had no doubt that
they were silver-tips. They were scat