Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-10-11

some time, and could now and then see
a white dog I had, but the rest OF
them, and the bear, which were dark
colored, l couldn't see at all, It was so
miserable dark. They still fought
around me, and sometimes within
three feet of me; but, at last, the bear
got down into one Of the cracks that
the earthquakes had made in the
ground, about four feet deep, and
could tell the biting end Of him by the
hollering Of my dogs So I took my
gun and pushed the muzzle Of 1t about.
I'LL thought had It against the main
part of his body, and fired; but 1t hap
pened to be only the fieshy part Of his
foreleg. With this he jumped out Of
the crack, and he and the dogs had
another hard fight around me, as be-
fore. At last, however, they forced
him back into the crack again, as he
was when / had shot.
| I had laid down my gun In the dark,
and I now began to hunt for 1t; and,
while hunting, got hold Of a pole.
and I concluded I would punch him
awhile with that. 1 did so, and when
would punch him the dogs would
Jump in on him, when he would bite
them badly, and they would jump out
again I concluded, as he would take
punching so patiently, 1t might be that
he would lie still enough for me to
get down In the crack, and feel slow
4 II Rp1 ha ,-iOaf rlana
tc give him dig with my butcher.
So / got down, and my dogs got In
before him and kept his head towards
them, till got along easily up to him;
and placing my hand on his rump, felt
for his shoulder, just behind which
intended to stick him. made lunge
with my long knife, and fortunately
stuck him right through the heart, at
which he just sank down, and crawl
ed out in hurry. In little time my
dogs all come out too, and seemed sat
isfied, which was the way they always
had Of telling me that they had fin-
ished him.
Keeping Warm Under Difficulties.
suffered very much that night
with cold, as my leather breeches, and
everything else had on, was wet and
frozen. But managed to get my bear
out Of this crack after several hard
trials, and so / butchered him and
laid down to try to sleep. But my fire
was very bad, and couldn't find any
thing that would burn well to make Il
any better; and so concluded / should
freeze, IL didn't warm myself In some
way by exercise. So got UP and hol-
Tered awhile, and then would just
lump up and down with all my might,
and throw myself into all sorts Of mo-
tions. But all this wouldn't do; for
my blood was now getting cold, and
the chills coming all over me. was
so tired, too, that could hardly walk;
but I thought I would do the best
could to save my life. and then, IL
died, nobody would be tc blame. So
went to a tree about two feet through,
and not limb on 1t for thirty feet,
and would climb up to the limbs,
and then lock my arms together around
| II, and slide down to the bottom again.
This would make the insides Of me
and my arms feel mighty warm and
good. 1 continued this till daylight in
the morning, and how often I clumb
up my tree and slid down don't know,
but reckon at least hundred times.
In the morning 1 got my bear hung
UP so as to be safe. and then set out
to hunt for my camp. found 1t af-
ter awhile, and Mcdaniel and my SON
were very much rejoiced to see me get
back, for they were about to give me
up for lost We got our breakfasts,
and then secured our meat by building
high scaffold, and covering It over.
We had no fear Of its spelling, for the
weather was so cold that II couldn't.
We now started after my other
bear, which had caused me so much
trouble and suffering; and before we
got him, we got start after another,
and took him also. We went on to the
creek I had crossed the night before.
and camped, and then went to where
my bear was that had killed In the
crack. When we examined the place.
Mcdaniel said he wouldn't have gone
into It, as I did, for all the bears in
the woods.
| We then took the meat down to our
camp and salted 1t, and also the last
one we had killed; intended In the
morning to make hunt in the harri-
cane again.
Earthquake Prevents Rest.
We prepared for resting that night,
and I can assure the reader l was IN
need Of It, We had laid down by our
fire. and about 10 o'clock there came
most terrible earthquake, which
shook the earth so that we were rock
ed about like we had been In a cradle,
We were very much alarmed; for
though we were accustomed to feel
earthquakes, we were now right In the
region which had been torn to pieces
by them in 1912, and we thought 1t
might take a notion and swallow us
I'D, like the big fish did Jonah.
In the morning we packed up and
moved to the harricane, where we
/ made another camp, and turned out
| that evening and killed a very large
bear, which made eight we had now
Killed in this hunt.
| The next morning we entered the
harricane again, and in little or no
time my dogs we're in full cry. We
pursued them, and soon came to a
thick cane brake, in which they had
stopp'd their bear. We got up close
to him, as the cane was so thick that
we couldn't see more than few feet.
Here 1 made my friend hold the cane
little open with his gun till / shot
the bear, which was a mighty large
one. I killed him dead in his tracks.
We got him out and butchered him,
and in a little time started another
and killed him, which now made ten
we had killed; and we knowed we
oo,ldn,t pank onv mora home. as we