The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-09-14
lie Punched the Hear.

at Florence, says The W ORD :
Work." was filled with vaca-
ton seekers picked up all the
way from Boston to Denver, most of
them ON their way to California.
though one hunter OF big game with
whom we talked had come UP from
New Orleans to go into the Idaho
Mountains from Missoula, ambitious
TO kill grizzly. a whole party were
eXultingly going back 10 their last
years camp.
Finest spot in the world said one
which was not quite true, because that
spot We found later many miles from
Meeker. whittier he was headed. He
went on:
No mosquitoes; airs too thin for
EN-! Plenty of elbow room! There's
million camps in these mountains.
near the railroad; ladies, kids an all
that. Nice enough; they have bully
time. But we like room! Trout! An
deer! An'-Say, Billy tell em about
the bear"
Billy" wouldn't. lie hlushed.
Amid the unchecked laughter that rang
through the smoking room. he could
not save his face We were mounting
the Continental Divide to the Tcnnes-
see Pass. Outside the Arkansas boiled
over its jagged bed and all the won
ders of red and orange and purple
cliffs made a foreground for vistas.
dissolving as we rounded curves. of
mountain behind mountain sloping
gently skyward or soaring in sheer
perpendicular lines to the clouds East
TO the Atlantic the Arkansas hurried;
beyond the watershed ten thousand
feet high, toward which we climbed,
we should burst from the long tunnel
to run beside the Eagle and the Grand,
whose waters reach the Pacific.
Billy found an Indians trail
didn't you Billy'% good naturally
jeered the one they called "Perk"
You see, he thought ii was an In
dams. a barefooted Indians" said he
expansvely to the room in general.
but 1t was II bear's"-he said it
'bearr's,' being n native of WiscOn-
sin. Billy was death on bears. He
used to tell us how his uncle killed n
grizzly out Oregon way with a lead
pencil-eh, Billy? SO Billy took
Winchester an went bear hunting.
Fore lie got us 10 help he chased his
invisible, but trembling, quarry-let
me see-six weeks, think. it was"
Three days" said Billy"
AT last" went on the story. 1--WE
went out together and beat up a neck
Of woods where Billy said the bear
had its nest; he said it was grizzly
with fourteen rattles. Billy himself
sat waiting at the upper end And we
did start the beast. We caught a
glimpse of him now and then-like a
black pig scattering through the brush.
He shot out of the bushes into
'Billy's' open like waddIing sky
rocket. and, not seeing Billy he sat
up to look back. But Billy! His eyes
bulged out like marbles. ! tell YOU.
gentlemen. his hair rose so fast his hat
went up like clay pigeon from 4 trap.
lie dropped his gun, and in two strides
~ " ''N'b liitO mat DtNI Otdu penn Tor
Kaiser. Excited? He kicked. ne
punched; he kicked again. His uncle.
with the lead pencil and the grizzly.
was nothing to Billy bare handed.
mauiing that scared, black, half grown
cub. 1t wasn't ten seconds before the
bear found the mill too hottie was
no prize fghtcr-and while Billy
chased him into the woods, rocking
him with everything he could reach.
we rolled on the ground ana laughed.
when we came up to Billy he was
sitting on the grass with his legs stuck
out lin front, looking at the riAe-hc
had picked it up. And crying"
Most Of that's a lie" said Billy"
but l guess 1 did forget the gun
and, frightening little. II landed him
couple of good ones, though" And
we all Joined the mighty laugh that
went up.