The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-12
From Defoe's "Robinson cruesoe."

From Defoe's Robinson Cruesoe." "HE bear was walking softly on, and offered to meddle with nobody, till ! Friday coming pretty near, calls to him as if the bear could understand
 him.
 "Hark ye. hark ye," says Friday. 'me speakee with you" | He followed at a distance, for now coming down to the Gacony side of the mountains, we were entered a vast great forest, where the country was plain and pretty open, though it had many trees in it scattered here and there. Friday, who Lad, as we say. the heels of the bear,
 came up with him quickly. and took up a gerat stone, and threw it at him and hit him just on the head, but did him no more harm than if he had thrown It against a wall; but 1t answered Fridays
 end, for the rogue was so void of fear that he did it purely to make the bear follow him, and show us some laugh, as
 he called 1t.
 As soon as the bear felt the stone and saw him, he turns about and comes after him. taking very long strides, and shuf- fling on at a strange rate, as would have put a horse to a middling gallop. Away
 runs Friday and takes his course as if he
 ran toward us for help; so we. all re- solved at once to fire upon the bear and deliver my man; though I was angry at him heartily for bringing the bear back upon us, when he was going about his own business another way; and especially hot Ia bo1 ftIrr 70 upon us and then run away; and called out:
 You dogl" said I, lis this your making us laugh? Come away and take your
 horse that we may shoot the creature" He heard me and cried out:
 NO shoot, no shoot; stand still, you get much laugh" and as the nimble crea- ture ran two feet for the beasts one, he turned of a sudden on one side of us, and seeing a gerat oak tree fit for his pur- pose, he beckoned us to follow; and doubling his pace, he got nimhly up :he tree, laying his gun down upon the ground, at about five or six yards from l the bottom of the tree. The bear soon came to the tree, and we followed at a ] distance. The first thing he did he stopped at the gun, smelled at it, but let 1 it lie and up he scrambled into the tree climbing like cat, though so monstrous
 heavy. I was amazed at the folly. as
 thought 1t, of my man, and could not for
 my life see anything to laugh at yet, till.
 seeing the bear get up the tree. we all I rode near to him.
 1 When we came to the tree there was 1 Friday got out to the small end Of a I large limb of the tree, and the bear got | about half way to him. AS soon as the | bear got out to that part where the limb of the tree was weaker, Friday began jumping and shaking the bough, at which l the bear began to totter, but stood still and began to look behind him, to see | how he should get back; then, indeed, we did laugh heartily. But Friday had not done with him by great deal; when seeing him stand still he called out 10 him again, as if he had supposed the pear could speak English.
 What, you no come farther? Pray you come farther;" so he left Jumping anu 1 shaking the bough; and the pear Iust 1 as if he had understood what he said' | did come a little farther; then ne pesai, ;umning again. and the bear stopped again We thought now was good time | to knock him on the head, and called to ! Friday to satnd still and we would shoot | the hear: but he cried out earnestly; .sOh, pray, oh. pray! no shoot! me shoot bye and then.
 ] However, to shorten the story, Friday danced so much and the bear stood so ticklsh that we had laughing enough in deed. hut still could not imagine what the fellow would do: for first we though he depended upon shaking the bear off, and we found the bear was too cunning for | that, too; for he would not go out far enough to be thrown down, but cung fast with his great broad claws and feet, so that we could not imagine what would
 be the end of it, and what the jest would l be at last.
 But Friday put us out of doubt quickly, for seeing the bear cling fast to the bouhg. and that he would not be persuad- ed to come any farther.