Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-04-06

before the black stallion gave d snort
OF fSrage and bounded toward the big
bear, which stood almost below my
feet. Brain saw him coming and
rose to his hind feet, his little yellow
eyes snapping with rage and hunger
The horse was too quick for him,
however, for before the bear could
strike with his powerful arms the
stallion reared up, drove both fore:
feet squarely iuto the bears face and
neck, knocking him six feet away.
Wheeling like lightning, the en-
ragged stallion gathered TO kick, but
before he could launch out bear No.
2 came up on gallop, and just as
the horses heels Loft the ground the
bear gave quick snap, catching the
hide about a foot above the fetlock,
and tearing away a.strip of hide a
foot long and an inch in width.
With a scream of rage and pain the
horse bounded into tho air, clear over
the bear, and whirled, it appeared,
80 quickly was it done, almost in
midair, and before No. 2 could face
about the stallion's sharp teeth closed
over one Of it's ears.
A snap, rip of tearing flesh and
one ear and big piece of hide were
gone. The bear, growing with rage,
was on his hind feet in a second, but
only in time TO catch a vicious kick
with both hind feet, which sent it
ovor on its back. AS before, the
horse was compelled to whirl about
to face a second enemy, for bear No.
l had gotten on it's feet and rushing
to the fray. Then for two or three
minutes, it appeared--but which pro-
badly was not much more than as
many seconds-there was mixup of
hide, hair and heels, mingled with
growls, savage snorts and swapping
teeth.
One bear was down and badly hurt.
The other bear, Ne. 2, was bleeding
profusely about the head and one of
his legs seemed to be crippled. AS
for the stallion, he was fcarfully torn
on every one of his four legs.
But before | could take in the full
extent of injuries given and received
by the three fighters they were all
again on the move. The bears this
time separated to attack the stallion
from different quarters, but they met
with ring general, for the horse
whirlcd and charged directly at one
of them, as the bear attempted to
gain his hind feet lie wheeled and
launched both hind hoofs with sick
ening thud against his ribs.
| could plainly hear the snap of
broken bones as the bear toppled
over; but before the stallion could
dodge or throw up his head out of
reach No. 2 struck him on the nose
with his claws.
Down went both hoofs and claws
flying. A second after the horse,
which now seemed a mass of torn
and bleeding flesh, bounded into the
air and came down with all four feet
on his PROSTATE foe, crushing bone,
flesh and muscle beneath. Then,
scarcely giving his dying foe a glance,
the crazed stallion sprang at his other
enemy, who was trying v; inly to re-
gain his feet. Again the stallion
sprang into the air, with his four
feet gathered into bunch, and again
there was a sickcning crunch of bono
md flesh. Both bears were now
lead, crushed and kicked into two
bloody masses of wool, bone and flesh.
After his last dash the horse walked
away few steps, then, turning, stag
5cred up to the first bear he had
knocked out, knelt down and literally
orc skin and flesh from the bears
body; then, with bloody head and
5listcning teeth the savage brute
to staggcr over to the other
mass of wool and flesh, which he
served in the same manner.
After tearing and battcring the
body into mass of broken bones
md mangled flesh, the stallion tossed
lis head, from which the bloody
soam flew in long tlecks, gave neigh
If triumph and fell lifeless to the
ground. The stallion had won the
)attle, but it had cost him his life.
Col. J. S. Brubaker, of Spartan
'urg, slaughtered Poland China
log few days ago that weighed 938