The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-12
SOFT SPOT WAS
IN EVIDENCE

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MINING MAN TELLS HOW HE GOT
HIS BEAUTY MARK.
Only Dog, an Indian, or a Kid Can
Enjoy All There Is in Hunting This
| Man Couldn't Stand for Decoying
! Mother Bear by Wounding Her Cub:
| To enjoy all there is in huntin' takes a
i dog, m Injun, en- kid. Mos mems got
a soft spot in Their gizzards IS gags at
some of it.-Philosophy of Colonel Whea-
ton.
and that's no pipe dream, either"
said the mining expert who had joined
the gang, and was enjoying the flow of
the coloneps speech. OF course the
experienced gang looked him over and
sized him up" as the man with
good story to tell who would tell it If
properly let alone, and proceeded to
let him, with results. "a
Eyes" continued the man of min
eral 1.-The colonel is right. I'm as fond
4 of hunting as the next man, and the.
rearing fell heir to ought to have
Il any SOlI SpOlS lily SAN'I
| gard, or elsewhere, that may have"
been born with, but that one the col-
1 onel speaks of is there, and will mu-
tiny on occasion, despite all efforts to
i control it.. And it has always been
rather a puzzle to me too, till met
the colonel, and heard his lecture just
finished. That same spot brought
me this beauty-spot on the cheek, the
! which has been labelling me hard cit
izen for the last fifteen years, whereas
:, I'm nothing of the sort" -
The "beauty-spot," by the way, be-
! ing an elegant knife scar on his right
cheek which gave remarkably SIMS
ter appearance to an otherwise pleas
ant countenance. %-1
"That happened when I was little
more than a boy, just thru college,
and back on the old homestead for a
little recreation before getting down
to life-work. I was raised on the Wis
consin river, where my father. had
;, taken a claim, and was Vi raising
mighty big family of hunters, tho
: doing but little at farming. In fact,
the old man must have been a lineal
descendant of ,Nimrod and so long
as he could feed his numerous progeny
with gun, troubled his head mighty
little about clearing up land, and look
ing out for their future welfare, or
his own either.
trate what manner Of man he was,
let me say that: he went about with
a. full-grown black bear following him
like dog, and just as tame as a. dog
that is, so far as the old man was con-
cerned. With strangers 1t was d1fer-
< Eent. Bear and old man were pretty
much of a mind that way; that is,
either would fight at the drop. Of the
hat, and when either went to war
nothing on earth could prevent the
other from butting in to the assist
ance of his mate. And you may be
sure that both were very n, m 1ers re-.
had, and at the little town where we
did our trading.
4. give years the old man kept thai
lbear, having caught him as nttle
cub, raised him by hand and laughed
to scorn all kinds Of offers from cir
fall the beargwould dig out den un
der the big fireplace in our cabin
!. crawl in, stuff up the entrance will
II moss, hay, or any old thing he. coult
- ! get, and go to sleep till spring. Ant
- no one, disturbed him either. It Woult
* have been too unhealthy Whlle IN
20 old man was on deck to risk.
Probably that bear might be liy
ing vet, If it hadn't have been for tn
inability of any properly constitute
boy to take a dare. There was a grea
crony Of fathers who lived in towr
:. and was almost as expert hunter q
y himself, whom he. always vlslte
L, :. whenever he went to the store 70
OIL STo this old friends place he wen
y one day, my diminutive self alon
g. a. with him, and old Andy-Andy Jack
son, Of course-the 2rr bear. lum a,,te N
ia along behind us. Well, the Two OF
~ orc n
III! satton and bitters, and father forge
l aat to keep an eye on Andy, who 500
aid came out into the back yard, WheI
the son Of our host, a boy Of abot
ed nv own age, and were playing.
ne .Now, the other hunter had recon
. ly got hold Of an imported Engn L.s
ird chained in the woodshed, where ge
urn ting sight, of old Andy, he began NAL
IN, ing war medicine and desperately try
: ing to break his chain and get out !;
the bear. Old Andy paid no attentlo
p to his noise at all, being supreme
la how. boy fashion, begun to scoff
ew the bear. Huh he said-do you r
ses member the blighting scorn g. Of
could put into that word nun
las you don't, you were never a 90
IN Huh, it's a good thing Tiges cnai IN,
up, r your ola USOA " 6As
be nothin'! I put in; you dassent let III
20. Old Andy d chaw him up N 81
Am out fore you could say Jack 70
nd ingon! Dare you to let him go! Da
"a you! Fore I'd take dare!-ano
Oh lot more Of the same kind.
.The other kid didn't take the Gal
No normal kid will. He ran 70 =
as woodshed, unclaimed the 1901 Q.
, ,In dog, which did after his KIND a. a.
ne made straight at Andy. He nall
him too, catching the bear by t
law and hanging on like grim deal
But Andy simply wrapped one gr s
arm about him, and tore one OF J,
dogs forelegs completely from
hody. with the other arm. Inc po
dog died in few minutes, and 1atn
~ and his host promptly went to war.
candy butted into their m1x-up
ted his usual fashion, and after the Wn'
IF nonuIation Of the town had interven
and forced peace,sAndy was filled w
lead. our host had two broken ~
one leg ditto, and a fractured skull
the doctor to patch up. rather p1
sented what was left of Andy TO J
whilom friend as sort OF salVe; 70 3
~ wounds, but the war ak was neN
completely buried between them
the end Of their lives. IS - )
s'But I'm getting out OF sight
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