The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-24

sponded to the cal. The bears trail was
taken at once. Sometimes it was cold
trail and sometimes it was hot one, but
the hunters followed 1t, determined not
to give it up until they had laid bruin low.
They followed it good many miles.
IF we don't hev the luck to plug the
owdacious OF thief full o lead" said 81
Lopez, at last, Il guess we've drivin oil
him pooty well outen the neighborhood,
anyhow, an that's some cons'lation, any
now"
Il don't know about that, ST." said Sam
Dingley, shaking his head. 1T looks to
me pooty durn strong that the bars
circlin' of US right back to'ards your clear
in ag'in. That's the way it looks to me,
Silas."
Sam had scarcely finished talking when
they came square out into one of Sis back
feds. And the dog followed that bears
trail right across the field straight toward
Sis house.
Cant be that the dusky OIL bandit has
sneaked back ag'in to try another nip at
the pig, kin it?" said 81. mot with us
chasin' right at his heels; he wouldn't hev
the cheek to do it, would hep
Looks durn sight like it," replied Sam.
The hunters quickened their steps, and
before they got in sight of the house they
heard a woman screaming at the top of
her lungs.
That's Sairy Ami! exclaimed 81. "The
consumed bar is back ag'in, as sure as
powder!"
Then they came out of the woods back
of Sans house. Mrs 81 stood in the yard
jumping up and down, and giving voice to
shrieks that 81 had recognized as hers.
Half way down the lot, between the house
and the woods, was the bear dragging the
dead pig. The dogs were soon upon it.,
with the hunters close behind
them. The bear dropped the pig,
paused long enough to whip out all three
of the dogs and send them back bowling
and bleeding, and then made off to the
woods, followed by a volley of bullets and
buckshot, some of which took effect, from
the way it bumped itself and hurried.
But 1t got away. The pig was carried back,
and 1t then occurred to ST that if they
locked 1t in the cellar perhyps it would
be safer than hanging out doors. So they
locked it in the cellar, and the chase of
the bear was resumed. 1t was kept up
all day, but the hunters came home with
out the bear
L was after the fortnight and more that
had elapsed since the bears last appear
ance at 81 Lopers that Noah Cronk came
into old Passadanky with the news that
had caused such commotion They had
got 81 Lopers bear, he said, and this was
the story of the getting:
1t seems that ST and his fellow hunters
had been after the bear pretty much all
of the time during the two or three weeks
without any luck. Farmer Andrew Jack
son Bly, lived three miles from Sis. Farm
'er BLY, kept sheep and cows and made
good deal of butter. He always had a lot
of milk and cream in his milk house. He
had heard of the doings of the bear down
around the Lopez clearing, and when he
went out one morning and found that
three of his ewes were missing he ex-
claimed:
Isl Loper's bar, I'll bet a cooky! He
couldn't git Sis pork, that bar couldn't
an now he's maxim of it up by stealth
my mutton
Late in the following night Farmer BIy's
wife woke him up and said she guessed
one of the horses had got down in its
| stall, the way things wera humping. The
farmer heard the humping, and got up
and went to the kitchen door to listen
| further. He opened the door on a crack
| and stuck his head out. 1t only required
| one seconds look to satisfy Farmer BLY,
| as to the humping. 1t wasn't horses. 1t
| was bear. 1t was a tremendous big bear
! which had hammered and pounded the
| door of the milk house in, and, as Farmer
| Bly, gaZed, wild-eyed and speeches., it
| walked deliberately into that depository
! of tactical riches Farmer BLY, closed the
| door quietly when the bear disappeared
| within the milk house, and watched fur
| Their developments from the kitchen win
| dow. The moon was shining bright, and
| he could see almost as well as if it were
| day. In very short time he saw the bear
| come out, walking on its hind feet, and
| hugging to its breast twelve-quart crock
| of cream. The bear stalked away with
| the can a few yards, where it came to
| high stone wall. There it sat down,
| with it's back against the wall. Farmer
BLY, saw that the bear was so big that
even sitting down, it was more than a
| head taller than the wall. Bruin placed
| no hatu nc
and thrust first one paw and then the
| other into it's rich contents, tapping the
cream off it's paws with a very palpable
| sense of the supremest enjoyment of the
| rare feast.
First he stuffs full o. hisself with my
mutton SAID Farmer Bly, mitterly, IAN
| then he comes an washes it down with
the best twelve quarts O. cream tina is in
| the hull hemiock beltI'
But the farmer did not calculate to let
such fragrant looting of the products of
| his pasture and dairy go UNPUBLISHED if
there was any virtue in his old army mus
ket. He went back to his wife, who had
gone to sleep meantime.
"Melindy," said he, waking her up, now
don't you go to gittin up an hollerln'
| fer you'll everlastinly Spite things If yc
do. The horses is all right. None on
em amt down in his stall. The thumpin
We heerd wasn't nothin', but bar You
lay still an go to sleep agin. I'm goia'
out to git the bar"
Melindy didn't get up and holler. but
she didn't lie still and go to sleep. She
got up and helped Farmer BLY, load the
musket, and they loaded it heavy. Then
the farmer went out of the front door,
made a detour that brought him around
! in the orchard in the rear of the bear,
which was till absorbed in the feast, with
! its back against the WALL above which its
big head stood out in bold relief.
Farmer BLY, stole up so close to the bear
that he could almost touch it with the
muzzle of the skull and blazed away. The
report of the old army musket was as
good as a Fourth of July salute The
farmers wife had tiptoed to the Kitchen
window when the farmer left the house
with the gun, and she had the bear in tull
view as 1t sopped the cream from the
| crock.
"Consarn his dirty pictur,' she said. III
II wasn't that it mowt skeer him away.
so Ander Jackson wouldn't get a shot at
him, ia go out an choke the life outeh
him myself"
She was beginning to get little nerv.
! -. eropa eusnpngp. when suddenly the