Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-10-01
YOUNG FOLKS COLUMN.


were not always what they seemed. when
| | saw his eyes bullying ont like pair of
/ white seed onions. and his hair actually
I rising under his chip hat. Then lie gave
yell that made the woods ring. and
away he went across country like a
I scared deer.
! His eyes had been fixed on spot
near the foot OF the tree when | discov-
| cred them bulging. and as he went tear
/ ing away through the woods, | mechan-
! iCaHy turned my eyes and let them rest
on the spot he had been staring at. Then
my eyes began To bulge too.
"A head that | recognized as the
head of a bear, and "A big one ut chat.
ami another head that was also Of a
bear, hut very much smaller than the
other had appeared ut the hole in the
trunk where the smoke had been started
upward To scare the pretty little red
squirrel out. | knew at once that the
bears were the tenants of that hollow
tree. and that they had come down to
! see what WAS going ON at the entrance
Ia their home
Il raised just as loul afu, far reach
ihS a veil as my companion had. and
| turned and He'd down the crock
reached the old sawmill, luilc from the
hollow tree, before | veumrcd to look
back
"rhcrc were no hear~ in sight. 81 7
| lHlde M my mind Ia rest a while at the
Hill before taking up my journey the
lest of the way home. good mile away
/ / sat down on 4 iog aud was just begin
ring To get my breath when | glanced up
! The creek. and my heart almost quiz
! beating. Not four rods away two bears.
Il large one and small one. were COM
/ ing hnniedly toward nc mill
! That the bears were after me and
were the bears we had smoked OUT /, Of
/ course, had not the slightest doubt
7 ,,ft I
;hem 10y running, So | dashed iu;r the
mill, summed UP the lettering old saw
I frame and pCrchCd or ratter,
The bears did not come into the mill,
but that did not satisfy me that they
were not lurking outside, waiting for me
te come dewn, 50 remained on my
| perch and used what strength | had in
! iuwljnS for help.
Il had chung to the rafter and bowled
Tor half nm hour or more when | dis
covered a cloud of smoke rising from the
woods up the creek | knew ut once
what that Signi6ed. \ lire was raging
ia the dry brush and there was no douhS
in my mind that it had originated from
the effort Of mNSelf and companion To
smoke ont the pretty little red squirrel.
The wind was blowing strong direct
~ down the creek and il was plain TO mo
| that unless someone came along and
| rescued me before night | would either
have 10 run the gauntlet Of the lurking
! hears or stand chance of being burned
/ MP ia the mill that the hears were
outside waiting for me | had no more
doubt than | had that ! was clinging TO
/ the rafter.
"Saye for the fire in the woods | might
/ have remained bowling in the mill for
/ many hours before | would have been
/ called for. hut the clouds Of smoke by and
/ lay warned the settlers in that locality or
/ the danger that was heScttms them and
/ III a few minutes after had discovered
( the tcll.talc smoke number uf men came
( hmrying along by the mill
"Emholdenrd 10y their presence, | ran
out and joined them, and hegau 10 tell
them to bc on their guard against the
| bears but del had no time to listen 10
/ anything a 1uut nears, and took short
ent and ran all the way home, calling for
help AZ short intervals. for fully believed
those bears were hot Oh my trail
The fire in the woods had started from
our eNpcrin en-. with the pretty little red
| squirrel. and was long after midnight
I before the hrp-hghtorS got il under con-
trol 1t had burned up more than 5000
cords of cordwood ranked in the woods q
great deal Of valuable timber, both stand
, ing AMI cut, ana Il new sawmll The to-
| tai loss WAS estimated at about $4,000
Il tremendous loss for that country then.
My bears were not seen again, bur Il
/ @Ht'p OF TWO llldl disappeared from thht
( HCiEhburhood that night indicated that it
was mutton and not boy The hears were
. nul after and the way my dear old father
/ admonlshed me in the privacy of home
/ 'llat same evening against wantonly play
/ ing tricks on pretty red squirrels was 20
/ emphatic that il was heard plainly by the
i miller family, & GGaftcG &c u mile away.
! What hrcnue of the pretty little red
/ squirrel never knew" New York Even
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