The Saint Paul globe., 1904-01-24
TFNDFRFOOT IS TREED
BY A PASSADANkY BEAR

than week. For two days, though
none of the boys had been able to rout
up a solitary bear, and signs of them
were few and scattering. Consequent
everybody was low-spirited and dis
couraged, and when the doubling and
scouting visiting sportsman started
out in the woods, alone and full Of
self confidence, the boys felt bitter.
I'd give the best $40 bill l ever
got fer a bear pelt,' said Joe Moray.
if l only knOwed where l could go and
start bear fer certain today. I'd go
out and surround him, and drive him
| up ag'in that smarty of a fancy hunter,
| and Farm him somethin' about woods'
LAS it was, Joe and Jep and one or
| two others went out anyhow, to see if
! they couldn't find bear and work 1t
around so it would meet the contempt
uous visitor; but they came back in the
! afternoon more disappointed than ever.
They had failed to find bear.
1 never see the like in twenty yearn
said Joe. don't care a smitch about
gittin' bear, but jest think how the
reputation O. the country Is sufferin'!
| Just then Dolf Green came hurrying
| in. He was bursting with excitement.
Boys said he, almost in tears, old
| Merry Go-Round has give me the slip!'
knowing as they did all that Old
Merry Go-Round was to Dolf and to
| the Passadanky district, this announce
ment was startling to the assembled
| natives, and the seriousness Of the sit
| uation was deeply appreciated by them.
Joe and Jep and the rest started out at
once to try and recapture the truant
bear, and l went along to see what
the result might be.
"Old Merry Co Round had been
MISSING T11nr
| was getting along we'll in the afternoon
when we started out to hunt him up.
We hunted and hunted, but could find
no trace of the bear 1t got to be all
most sundown, and Jep Marcy said we
might as we'll give up and go home,
when startling sound, half hoot and
half yell, came from somewhere up the
| creek. 1t was repeated at short inter-
walls, and Joe McRay said we had. bet
ter go and see what sort of a critter 1t
was that was making the noise.
we hurried along up the creek, and
as We rounded a sharp bend in the
stream, in an open space on the bank,
twenty feet or so back from the water,
We discovered Old Merry Go Round,
describing circle around dead hem
lock tree as Solemnly and earnestly as
III ne were at home running the ma
chinery on Dolf Green's farm. In the
top of the tree clinging to one stub of
! a limb, and astride of another, was the
| contemptuous visiting sportsman,
howling for help for all he was worth
The sight was too much for the
Hemlock Belters, and their low spirits
disappeared. They were no longer dis
appointed. 1 was moved to no little hi
larity myself by the spectacle. 1t was
some minutes before any one had sub
| dued his merriment enough to say any,
| thing, and all the while Old Merry Go
Round was tramping solemnly round
| and round the tree. AT last Joe Nc
| Ray exclaimed, in mock surprise:
Why, hello, sonny What be you
doin' up there?" Have you treed a
partridge?'
Don't you see that tremendous
bear down there?' the hunter shouted
back. Why don't you shoot him?'
Pooh' answered Joe. There amt
no bear in patch O timber setch as
this! How long you been up there?
That bear came tearing along here
| this forenoon replied the man in the
| tree, and I've been up here ever sinceI
| Amt you going to kill him and let me
DOWN.
Then Dolf Green took Old Merry
Go-Round by the ear and led him
away. The hunter slid down from the
tree, picked up his gun that lay at the
foot of the tree and started on the
double quick for the settlement. BY the
time we got in he was on his way to