The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-01-14

week with two bears and an amazing
story about how they got en-" said
Captain Sam Lyman, of the Kettle
Creek country, down in Potter county,
Pennsylvania. The boys went put af-
ter bears. They We're trimming logs.
"Paien had his dog, a whippet, along
with him. The dog was nosing around
in the woods, and by and by began
barking furiously and persisted in it
so that Jim and Joe went to see what
it was all about. They found the dog
all bristled up and barking at the up
turned roots of a fallen tree. The hole
In the ground where the roots had been
was covered by an accumulation of
sticks and dead leaves.
Jim Palen gave this dome of debris
a Whack with an ak. The blow made
a big hole in the roof and instantly a
bear showed its nose out of the hole and
began to snarl and snap it's jaws.
From a hole on the opposite side,
where Balch was standing, q second
bear stuck its nose out and mapped
and snarled. These ~apparitions were
SO unexpected hat both men dropped
then axes. Palen's ak slipped into the
hole 1T had made in the heap of
leaves and sticks and Balch's dropped
down among the roots of the tree.
The men had seen bears before, and
as soon as they recovered from the
start the appearance Of these two gave
them n had sworn some at them
selves Ior pelng scared into dropping
their axes they got a heavy cudgel each
and went to whacking the noses of the
pears, which caused the noses to dis
appear within the mound OF leaves and
sticks.
"Balch had a rifle, but 1t was home,
AMI ON was three miles away. He
wanted those bears, but there was no
way to make sure of them without a
gun, so Palen said that If Balch would
go home and get his gun Palen would
stand guard ove the bears and keep
EN- from getting away until Balch got
back.
Joe started on a run for home. He
ran all the way there and all the way
pack with the gun, he says, and Jim
says 1t must be so, for Joe was gone
less than an hour. But that hour had
been a tense time for Jim.
Joe had scarcely started for his gun
before the bears attempted to get ont
from beneath that roof with fire in
their eyes. First one bear would en-
deaVor to come out at one of the holes.
Wnen jim would whack 1t on the nose
with his club. BY the time it was beat
en- back the other bear would make a
break to get out of the hole on its side
of the mound.
They kept Joe jumping from one
SIDE OF the mound to the other, to and
fro. and constantly swinging his club.
II joe had been gone 10 minutes long
ei Jill WOulu nave mad to drop and
surrender to the bears.
Joe got back with the gun In time
TO relieve Jim and rescue him. Jim
opp his club and stepped back.
NOW come out, darn YOU" he yelle1
to the bears.
But the bears wouldn't come out.
Whether they were shocked at Jfn..s
language or knew there was q man out
there with a gun, Jim nor Joe doesn't
say, but they wouldn't even show the
tip of their nose at either hole.
After vainly trying various means to
induce the bears to come out, Joe Balch
dropped a piece of blazing pine into one
of the holes. Both bears the came out
of the den with a rush that dismantled
1T and Joe killed Them"
The Rabbit and the Boys Got Away
Roulette. Pa, Special: Three boys
were hunting rabbits the other day on
the old Nelson place, on the East Fork
a rabbit and it ran into a shock OF
corn In the field.
One of the boys ran to the shock to
kick it and scare the habit out. The
other two stood ready to shoot it when
it made it's appearance.
The rabbit jumped out on one side Of
the shock, but neither boy shot at it.
for on the other side a bear tumbled
out Of the shock and rising on it's
hind feet surveyed the as if
in establishment. The boys got away.
So did the rabbit.
The bear was killed by a hunter.
James Weber, in the same field next
day.