The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-05

turn their bellies up and the current would
carry them to Desmond We got forty
pounds OF trout that day but Il wasn't
what you'd call sportsmanlike fishing"
Tom Haley bears out the account OF
Eestigouche trout AZ q ravenous and ON
Adams's cows.
Those cows" says Tom, used to come
home every night about milking time without
enough milk to I'LL baby's bottle among
the whole herd, They'd come in from
pasture across the ford, where the water
further side they'd look to be carrying
plenty OF milk and they'd be talking like II,
too; but when they got over they were dry.
One day just after the COWS came home
Farmer Adams's boy caught a flve-pound
trout in the pool just below the ford. The
trout put up q hard fight. When he was
big lump Of butter in his stomach.
That settles it, says Farmer Adams
when he saw the butter That was cream
when the fish was hooked and he chuIned
II into butter, while no was being landed.
Them trout have been milking my cows
,ro; After s figuring how to get even with the
baited with worms on the cows tails, and
didn't they bring In enough trout to supply
the whole Adams outfit every night, till
all the Ash were cleaned out Of that pool"
1T was one Of those cows" said Tom
Pratt, that the big bear ate when he came
down from the mountain. They never
found hide nor hair Of the COW, but they
used to hear the bell she wore, ringing up
on the mountain and the Muctaws II. g.. +.
Miomao lndiansl thought 1t was the cows
ghost.
"The bear was shot finally and they found
the bell inside him: He'd been carrying 1t,
tOlling away, for six weeks.
He WaS one of the hahinU hpnrR that
fellow was" continued Pratt. Bears are
mighty partial to salmon, and this fellow
and two or three others used to fish In tho
wide pool up the Paddamajaw.
two other men and were camping up
there, and when we moved camp We left
some molasses In a keg. A bear will lose
his hide TO get molasses. You know: l
remember said Pratt, branching of into
another "Reminiscences, zone summer | was
up hero with a party Of men from Boston,
in the United States. They had big bar,
rel Of molasses and a lot OF boxes OF dried
goldfish, and didn't they eat the molasses
on the Goldfish!
There must have been party OF bears
on the mountain Watching the performance,
for one day, when we were all on the river,
the bears rushed the camp, broke open
the molasses barrel, got into the goldfish
and when we came back they were stunning
themselves with the mixture just like the
D"oeo", Clhteu othtess Nheh Vho va -
was 30 full he couldn't get away, and we
built pen for him, but he broke out ah M,
licked up all the molasses that was LETT
before he took to the mountain. mat
broke up the party.
NOh about the bears that got our molasses
Three of them made up the party. Ihey
were 80 busy that we sighted them FIRST
on our return to camp, and sneaked up 10
them. Two of them were sitting there
just smearing their faces and licking 1t on
But the other fellow was smarter. ne
had gone down to the river, where the
bank overhung a steep pool, and there ne
stood with his paws stretched out
That fellow sees us coming, and ne
| saying his prayers said one OF my com.
panions.
-" He's up to something queer. said l..
But don't believe it's piety. l never
| saw a bear yet that wasn't related to the
! devil. Wen just watch
Little by little we erept up and pretty
soon we saw the bear clap his paws together
| hard, then lean out over the pool. Inc
next minute he made 4 swift scoop with
his paw, and didn't he have n big salmon
out on the bank.
~Do YOU see what he'd been up tor He'd
sFneared his paws with molaeses. Then
he went to the river and held them out Til
| they were covered with flies. When he
clapped his paws together the flies dropped
into the pool, the salmon rose to the flies,
and the bear had a fish dinner with mo-
lasses.
They're smart. those Paddamajaw
bears"
One is not required to believe all the
stories told by the Restigouche guides. but
the penalty Of open scepticism is severe.
The sceptic, once he declares himself, hears
no more stories