The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-10-28
er, whereuron he raised his head with q
warning prOWl and thew fed tn n safer

twice but a dozen times. The very fact
that I am here to-day, gentlemen, il
due to gang Of coyotes that have
torn me into good many fragments if
they could have had their way.
'But the brief respite came to an
end. The bear, tired of being defrauded
of his meal, decided to drag it to some
more; secluded place, and there feast at
his leisure. He made one last charge
upon the coyotes and then, rushing
back, seized my shoulder again and
started off in trot. A few moments of
agony were followed by another faint
ing spell, and once more, happily. I was
unconscious When I recovered the
same bowling, raging pandemonium
was going on around me. Added mum.
bers had made the coyotes more cour-
ageous. and they were pressing close
upon the grizzly. He had not yet begun
to devour me. He would stand over me
and grow1 for moment and then make
onslaughts upon the enemy. scattering
them like chat. AS turned to watch
him in one of these violent attacks l
was startled to find that was lying
just before the door of one of my
brother Ned's bearpens in the lower
mountains. It was little house, built
and rooted with logs securely clamped
together. The door was raised and
fastened to the lever that connected
with the trigger inside. I had helped
to build dozen just like the one near
at hand. At first my thought was of the
grim joke it would be on Ned's bear
trap to have his brother devoured by a
bear right in front of it. Then some.
thing else occurred to- me. The bear
came back and stood over me. His
mouth was open to shut down on nv
neck and finish this story for me. l
could feel his hot breath on my
face, when the coyotes made rush, and
one of them actually seized my foot.
The grizzly rushed after them furious
ly. Now was my opportunity. With su.
perhuman exertion born of highly
desperate condition of affairs I rose
upon my uninjured knee, and hall
scrambled half rolled into the pen. Be.
fore was well in could hear the huge
brute coming on run. I crawled an.
! other foot further-too late-no. !
reached the trigger with the tips of my
fingers, and down shot the ponderous
door, scraping the grizzly's nose as it
fell. l was shut up in the bear pen.
What moment that was in nv life,
If I were to live a thousand years ]
should never forget it. How the brutes
did rage outside. A hundred times they
walked around the pen, the bear official.
ing as chief mourner, and the coyotes
skulking after him and bowling dis.
mally. AS for me, lay stretched on
the ground inside and laug hed and
cried, and cried and laughed, for my
nerves were gone all to pieces, and
had spell of what would have been
Mysteries if had been woman. Some.
times Ivaried the performance by faint.
ing comfortably away, with such q
blessed sense of security, and when
walked again cried and laughed some
more. I staid there and kept house in
that bear pen 1 don't know how many
hours, and all the time my broken leg
ached horribly.
''After awhile a fusillade of shots
reused me, and saw the grizzly rise
upon his launches. Then some more
shots sounded and he fell, with faint
struggling motions of his arms. The
coyotes rushed at him first, but few
| more shots scattered them.
1.-THE next l knew there stood my
brother Edward, looking down upon
me in the bear trap. 1 was suffering
too much to observe the expression
| of his face, but he was astonished
beyond expression to see me alive be.
fore him. He was accompanied by my
two miner acquaintance of the night
before. I'll be hanged if it wasn't the
closest call with a grizzly bear 1 eve,
heard off, was the only exclama ton the
! miners could make.
"You see it happened this way. Ny
frightened horse tore like mad through
the timber, and passed the miners in the
canyon. They knew at once that an &C.
cident had befallen me. They started
Immediately to hunt me up, when they
came across my brother Ned, who had
come up for another days hunt with
me. They saw where l had passed
through the chaparral, and where
had been thrown from my horse. The
prints of the bears feet had given them
reason to believe was done for, and
the blood on the ground assured them
of frightful death had met. 1t was
four or five months before could get
about without crutches, and it was sew.
eral weeks that l lay critically ill al
my brothers ranch with my shattered
limb. The doctors say it is marvellous
that 1 lived through the first month.
still feel pain where the break occurred
whenever the weather is damp, and
don't suppose l shall ever get over the
horrible sensation of that July day
when had my life saved'by the coyotes
DO you wonder that I have tender
| spot in my heart for the beasts that nine
out of ten men think are the meanest
and sneakiest that liveY'-Detroit Free
Press.
The Sen.
It is the sea which ennob1es every.
thing. Between the line and the surf
there was but the ancient foreshore
covered with prickly tamarisks and
mauve-colored heath, with yellow sand
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