The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-12-18
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ADVENTURE
BARKED LIKE A DOG.

Tyson Jones, an old-time Sinnema-
honing bear hunter, had kept his eye
on swamp in the Bear Creek coun-
try ever since huckleberry time,
writes the Norwich Hill (Pa.) CORE
spondent OF the New York Sun, for
he had reason to believe that it was
harboring three bears, and his mind
was made up regarding what he
would co to those bears when the
open season for bears came along.
1t came October /, and these three
must have forgotten that bears were
then no longer under protection of
tne law, for they left many signs
about the swamp that they were still
there, Notwithstanding the proximity
of Tyson Jones and other bear hunt
ers. So summoning four other hunt
ers to join him Tyson Jones started
out after the bears.
The swamp was dense with laurels.
The hunters were posting themselves
about so as to be sure of getting the
bears when the latter were routed
out, when Farmer George jackson,
who lives in the vicinity, appeared on,
the scene much excited
Three bears have just gone tramp
in through my barnyard," he said to
Tyson Jones. Somebody had better
come over and kill 'em.
Tyson Jones said that he guessed
they would first get the three bears
that were in the swamp and then
they would attend to the business of
Farmer Jones three. But they didn't
get the three bears that were in the
swamp, because the three bears were
no longer there.
Whether or not it had come sud
denly to the bears what day it was
does not appear, but at any rate it
dawned on the hunters that the three
had managed to get out of the swamp
while it was being surrounded, and
their trail was discovered leading in
the direction of another laurel patch
several miles distant AS a shot cut
thither the bears had taken advan-
tage of the route via Farmer Jackl
sons barnyard ~
The hunters and Farmer Jackson
followed the trail to the distant
swamp and located the bears in it, but
their two dogs refused to go in, and
rout the bears out. In this emergen-
cy Farmer jackson said that while he
wasn't any kind Of a bear hunter he
could bark like a dog first rate. Ty-
son Jones told him to go into the
swamp then and bark like a dog.
He followed Instructions so well
that it was only few minutes Before
the bears were heard thrashing
through the laurels to make their
way out. The three of them plunged
into the open so close to Tyson Jones
that he dropped one of them in its
tracks and wounded another.
The wounded bear and It's surviv-
ing companion dashed back into the
swamp again. Farmer Jackson re-
sumed his barking like dog, and at
once the laurels began to crash again
in line toward the open. The bark,
ing like a dog suddenly, ceased,
though, and in Its place human yells
rose from the swamp and from the
line of thrashing laurels out tumbled
Farmer Jackson shouting:
"The bears is after me! Kill 'em!
Kill 'em!"
One bear certainly was after him,
it evidently having discovered the
fraud Farmer Jackson had played on
them in barking like a dog, but the
bears head had no sooner come in
sight through the laure1s in the wake
of Farmer Jackson than Tyson Jones
sent a rife bullet to meet it. The
bear fell and another shot ended its
career.
In the excitement of this stage of
the hunt the bear Tyson Jones had
wounded made its way out Of the lau-
rel patch on the opposite side. 1t
was discovered by Frank Silsbie, one
of the hunters, and he killed it.