The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-04-12

party" had struck the hog wallow on
the other side of the bajeo and the
bear had the advantage, so she in
creased the gap between herself and
Ell Lenero considerably, for by this
time he was leading the trio of las
sadOres; but as soon as the hog wal
low was cleared and the smooth slope
dotted with elder bushes on the other
side gained, Ell Lenero ran on to her
rapidly and planted his RATA over
her neck and behind one shoulder
"aluso ladron' (Thief fashionl, as we
used to call it.
1t was too much for the bears in
-genuity. She could not get it off;
so she turned and charged with one
foreleg dashed to her neck; but Don
Jose was right there, and as she came
the old chap met her with beauti-
full overland throw, caught both hind
feet and whirling the rhineno round
on his hind feet had her stretched out
full length on her side quicker than
| can tell it.
The other two horses having given
courage by their actions to the cow
ardly Sabine, Navarro came up, and
taking down his horse-hair rope to
hold his horse with, wrapped the
reins very tight around the pommel,
got down and went to Don Joses as
sistance. Don Jose now took reef
in his RATA, riding UP within ten feet
of the bear, leaving about twenty feet
of the loose end beyond his horn.
Navarro took this, slipped it through
the neck rope and passed it back to
Don Jose; catching that between Don
Jose and the hear in his hands, he
pulled hard on it to keep it tight;
Don Jose, taking up the slack of the
end, frightened the RATA at about the
same point as before, drawing the
hind feet chockablock to the neck
RATA and rolling the bear into big
ball. OF course, this is one way Of
roping a bear, but there are as many
ways as there are of tying down a
steer.
Navarro now took some bale rope
and, half hitching it several times
around the bears nose, fixed at least
one female so that she would have to
keep her mouth shut. He then added
his RATA to the other two and the
trio dragged the bear up to tree
about a foot in diameter, pulled her
hind feet around it on opposite sides
with riatas, then with many knots and
half bitches known only to sailors and
vaqueros tied them together hugging
the tree. at the same time leaving
plenty of space between the tree and
her body so that she could describe
as many circles around the tree by
springing and walking around it with
her forelegs as she chose, but she
could not reach the RATA on her feet.
Navarro now took all the other
riatas off, and, cutting the bale rope
on the bears nose, left her as free as
air except as to her two hind feet.
She availeS herself of the opportunity
to make up for long silence and ell
forced inaction. She screamed, kick.
ed bit, scolded and threatened, and
we poked fun at her in several differ
ent languages until she lapsed into
sullen silence, when we left her to
solitary meditation and went back to
the bait.
Guero succeeded in catching cub
the first throw, and Chato and Ybarra
helped tie it, the cahmbones, or
greenhorns, we're all busy with the
other two; one Of the cubs ran for
the arroyo. l threw my RATA, but
having buck fever somewhat the cub
ram through the loop and kept his
course. l whirled my horse and
whactcd MIN on the nose a couple Of
times with the hondo (raw-hide lssso
loop which turned him back by
this tine the big Missourian had saln'
ed courage and wanted to be in 1t, so