The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-11-02

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started rabbit. 1t ran into fodder
stack in an old cornheld one Of the
boys went TO the stack to kick it and
scare the rabbit out The other two
stood ready With their guns to shoot
it when it jumped out.
The boy kicked The rabbit Jumped
out on one side. but neither boy shot
it, for on the other side of the stack
a big bear tumbled out and surveyed
The youthful hunters in astonishment
The rabbit got away; so did the boys
They came across Farmer Weaver
n the course of their fight, and paused
long enough to tell him about the bear
they had disturbed in the farmers
fodder stack. Farmer Weaver hurried
away to find jim Wagner, the bear
hunter. Jim lived just beyond the
Geld where the bear had come out of
the stack and scared the three boys,
but Farmer Weaver took Il wide cir
cult around the field and came to
Wagner's house from the Far side
When he got there he found that Wag-
ner was out hunting
Farmer Weaver left Nagner's great
~ disappointed and had not got as far
rs the road when Mrs Wagner saw
him tearing back and into the house
and slamming the door behind him.
The bear is cominr he cried
Mrs. Wagner looked out of the win
dow, and, sure enough, the bear was
slouching leisurely across the door
yard. headed toward the garden Wag-
ner's wife seized her clothes FOUNDER,
a heavy block of wood. with a long
upright handle fastened in it, used for
pounding clothes in the wash Armed
with this she rushed from the house.
took a short cut around and came out
ahead of the bear Bruin stopped
when he saw her and put up n savage
front showing his teeth and snarling
and swapping his jaws. Mrs. Wagner
was not turned from her course by
! the fierce demonstration made by the
| bear, and she advanced rapidly toward
him, her formidable weapon raised
above her head, ready to fall upon the
bear when she got within reach.
The bear. seeing that he had not
frightened his enemy, and evidently
not liking the appearance of the up
lifted clothes-pounder, turned and
shufiled quickly back toward the house.
Mrs. Wagner had not stopped TO smut
the door when she rushed from The
house to intercept the bear, and the
latter. seeing it open, and perhaps inn
aginlng that it promised him refuge
within, made straight for It,
Farmer Weaver, in his excitement
and establishment at the sudden move
ment Of Waguers wife against The
bear, had stood still by the window
watching the proceedings outside. and
had not thought Of the open door
When he saw the bear approaching the
house he moved and started for the
bear. The bear was SO close. then
though, that Weaver did not venture
to go out of the door. and not even
stopping long enough TO shut it. he
rushed for a door at the other side
made his escape from the house and
in his haste left that door open behind
him. The bear entered at the one
door. but Mrs Wagner was close on
his trail and he hurried right on
through and out Of the door ut the
other side of the house, Wagncr's
wife, with her weapon still aloft, close
behind him. Farmer Weaver had run
toward the barn and had nearly
reached il when the bear went hurry
ing out OF the house Weaver looked
over his shoulder. saw the bear headed
straight in his direction and only three
rods away; got the barn door open
and rushed inside, closing the door be
hind him. There was no fastening to
the door and it would not stay shut.
and Farmer Weaver made double-quick
time up the ladder leading 10 the hay
mow.
There was a high fence to be climbed
whichever way the bear turned, UNI
less he turned toward his pursuer, and
that did not seem to be the thing he
wanted to do. He would not have
time, either, TO scale the fence before
his enemy would be upon him with
that ponderous weapon Whether the
bear reasoned that way or not, he
chose to take the chances of entering
the barn and he did Mrs. Wagner fol
lowed him so close that he bad got
only little way up the ladder leading
to the NOW, and with one sweep of
her clOthes-po FOUNDER she knocked him
sprawling back to the floor. At the
same moment Farmer Weaver got the
NOW window open, dropped from it
to the ground and hurried homeward.
Before the bear could gather himself
from the blow Mrs Wagner had given
him she followed it with another which
crushed his skull. and when Jim Wag-
ner came home from his hunt, an hour
or so later, he found a nice, fat bear
lying dead in the barn.
Mrs. Wagner had only laughter for
the manner III which Farmer Weaver
had acted as she related how she had
managed TO chase the bear down and
kill him, but when the farmer sent
word over the next day that as the
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