Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-03-25
SAWED BEAR MEAT.
Brnin Undertook to RIM Saumiil.
Bnt the Saw Was Too Much
for Him.

an old trapper the other day to a Ban
gor Commercial representative I had /
one many years ago that was ccrker, /
and 1t shows that old brain has quite
head on him, after all 1t was one of the /
CORY, bear-eat-man sort of experiences,
but story that would make many peo- /
pie doubt the truth of it, but can pro-
duce enough reliable witnesses to- SUBJ
stantiate the tale, SO I am not worrying
over that part.
1t happened up in the northern part
OF the state, and, at-the time, bears were
very thick, too thick for convenience. /
was at the time engaged in numbering
operations and was in charge of saw
mill that my father owned 1t was one
of the old-fashioned kind of mills, the
kind that you used to see when knocking
around in the woods Bears had been
troubling US very much by getting into
the mill and eating up the provisions,
especially the pork. We did OF have
any traps at hand, so we could not make
any Roadway toward DISCRIMINATING
them.
1.-The day the adventure tok place that
| amegoing to tell you about had been
working all night for the past few days
saving logs and had gotten my sleep in
by snoozing during the daytime. On this
particular day | was pretty well tired
bout and don't think that anything ex-
| cept cannon shot could have awakened
me, but this bruin that happened along
woke me up all right, and for time !
was pretty well.scared
Il had lain down for my little snooze
and it was not long before commenced
to fly around in gold chariots and was
having a pretty rosy time of it in my
dreams, when | felt something shifting
at my face and proving otherwise OBJ
streperous, / managed to bring my eyes
to focus and was nearly frightened to
death to discover a. good-sized bear en-
gagged in making a very full investiga-
ton of my anatomy. Well. 1 can tell you
/ / did some pretty tall thinking and, as
you know, it is said that bear will not
| touch body that he thinks is dead. /
was engaged for about all of the next
| two or there minutes in holding my
breath and doing other things to make
me appear. lifeless.
4 pretty soon the bear gave me up as
immortal and commenced to prowl
around the mill He put in a very crit
could possibly reach and he hadn't been
proving around long before he discoV-
cred some deer meat hanging up. Well,
it didn't take him long to pull the car
/ cass down and commence to make good
t inroads into the meat After he had been
eating some time he discovered the logs
standing on the carriage, and, evidently
thinking that they would make him
comfortable seat for the remainder Of
his meal. took a good hunk of the meat
and went out and sat down on the logs
with his back to the saw.
Nov was my chance to have little
fun with the bear, which was not slow
in grasping. The logs where he was sit
sing were quite ways from me, so that
l had plenty of chance to get at the
| lever that set the machinery in motion
that worked the saw and movable car
/ riage. Well, got to the lever and pulled
lit over without the bear discovering my
/ presence.
/ The carriage commenced TO move
slowly toward the saw and you ought to
i have seen the expression on that bears
/ face 1t would put the facial expression
of Happy HooHgan out of sight. He be-
came used to. the motion Of the carriage
in few seconds and commenced to re-
new his meal.
'The carriage was moving toward the
saw in pretty good shape by this time
and it was but few minutes before it
4 got within hearing distance of bruin. He
was unconscious of his approaching
fate, but about the same time that he
y nmenced to realize that something
out of the ordinary was doing the. saw
struck him amidships, and. as it was a.
Il very powerful and large saw, in the
twinkling of an eye that bear was cut up
into some of the finest bear chop that
n you everssaw.
ct didn't take me long to realize what
trick / had done and commenced to
1 pick up the meat. put it in cold stor-
age and we had bear meat for the next
two or three weeks That was the most
exciting bear experience that / ever got
into and although | didn't get hurt at
all don't want the feat repeated"
Cheese for Rabbit.
The trouble-making powers OF a
Welsh rabbit are not always limited