Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-04-24
We all expected her..to stand her

We all expected her. to stand her
ground and fight for her cubs, az, bears
generally do, but she evidently
thought them big enough and old
enough to take care Of themselves, SO
when we got within about sixty feet
of her she lit out with snort (about
the same sound that large hog would
make If she did her very best) for
Precipice Canon.
According to instructions, Don Jose,
Ell Lenero and Nevarro only put out
after the bear. 81 Georchy, Ell Buer-
no and deployed as scouts between
the cubs and the arroyo; Ell Cir, Ell
Guero, Ambagsio, Ybarra and Chato
charging the cubs, which stood their
ground and made game fight from
start to finish. Don Jose led the trio
after the old bear, little to the
right and about sixty feet in her rear.
Neyarro was Immediately behind
him. Ell Lenero about a hundred feet
behind and somewhat to her left.
They all gained on her in the run
across the bajeo, and Don Jose planted
his lasso around her neck, but it was
promptly thrown off and thrown to
one side in a very contemptuous man
ner. Don Jose slowed down to pre-
pare his rope again, giving Nevarro
a chance, which he improved as we'll
as he could, but unfortunately just
as he was about to throw the bear
gave a snort that sent Nevarro and
his sabine hundred yards off their
course; by this time, "the necktie
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
81 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 fashion), as we
used to call 1t.
It was too much for the bears in.
genuity. She could not get it of; ;
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 a 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
I 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 Jose's as
sistance. Don Jose now took a 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 1t back to
Don Jose; catching that between Don
Jose and the bear 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 a big
ball. or course, this is one way Of
roping bear, but there are as many
ways as there are of tying down a
| steer e So
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 riata to the other twoe and the
trios dragged the bear up to a tree
about asfoot 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
en- the bears nose, left her as free as
air except as to her two hind feet.
She awaited herself of the opportunity
to make up for long silence and en-
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, were all busy with the
other two; one of the cubs ran for
the arroyo. threw my RATA, but
having buck fever somewhat the Gu,
ran through the loop and kept his.
course Il. whirled my horse and
whacicd MIN on the nose couple of
times with the hondo (raw-hide lssso
loop which turned him back BY
this time the big Missourian had gain.
ell courage and wanted to be in 1T, so
about the time the cub was turned II
Georchy was pretty close to him and
coming on at full speed. The cub,
probably thinking-that as Georchy had
no Rata here was his meat. immed-
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