The Pulaskian., 1921-01-13
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to the tree the cub was in, which looked as big as two-year-old steer. Ten steps from 1t he fired and it dropped to the ground. He started to it, but Bob stopped him again. He said he knew 1t was dead, but Bob had seen bear shot before. while this was the first time that Sam had ever seen one up tree, let alone seeing one shot. Bob said ''All right, but let's go to the other one" They went to the other one and went through the same performance with the same re- suit. Their fathers had each shot once, so Bob proposed that they go to them at once. He knew that 1t was very dangerous to go up to wounded bear and that was his way of keeping Sam from doing so. When they got to their fathers they found them twenty yards from the bear. She was up leaning tree and on top of 1t with her arms around it. The men had both missed her with their rifles and Sam started right on- to it, but his father stopped him, telling him that the bear would tear him into shreds, but he said he had gone up to within ten steps of each of the other bears and killed them. The men could not believe him, but Bob told them that he sure had killed them both. "All right then, go ahead and kill it," said his father. He went up to within ten steps of it and fired She looked as big as q COW but after hanging on a moment she fell out, too. Both boys ran as hard as they could toward their fathers, whom they soon met. Parson Stutz said, ''He has killed it, for I heard 1t hit the ground" :" Bob would not shoot at it and remained few feet behind Sam and started in run so fast that Sam could not catch him, though he did his best to. Bob said he would get his yoke of steers and drag the old bear home. Sam said they could carry the cubs. but when he tried 1t he could not even lift one off the ground, so Sam took his steers and dragged both to the house at one time. Next they had to skin them and when that was done the Parson said he could not go to bed until he had cooked and eaten some of it. The Stutz girls got up and looked at them and then went back to bed. It was after one o'clock be- fore the boys got to bed. At once, so 1t seemed to Sam, he heard Mrs. Stutz hollering, Come out of there, you bear hunters, and start that mill to grinding, for children are hungry for bread" They got their grain ground by l2 o'clock, the mill could only grind thirty or forty bushels a day. After eating dinner they start ed home with their flour and meal and one of the cubs and half of the old bear, and had bear meat to eat for long time. That was a good start for young Bob, a record seldom made by a boy on his first bear hunt, but he lived up to this record as long as the game held out.
 So successful was he at hunting that when he left home for several years he spent each winter at that pursuit. He had as a partner a neigh Dor boy. One winter they were hunt ing in Grant county and were camp ed in an old house that was built before the civil war. The chinking had fallen out of the cracks, but the door shutter was good and the roof, made of white oak boards, was in perfect condition. They had their game hung up in one corner of the room and their dog was sleeping in front of the fireplace when he was awakened by the low growls of the dog. Turning his eyes in the direc- tion the dog was looking, for the bright moonlight shining through the cracks made it nearly as light as day, he could see that a wolf had scratch ed hole under the logs and had his head in the room as far as his ears. Turning his gaze in the direction of the left hand corner he could see an other wolf with his head in to his ears. Then looking through the cracks he could see in the yard about a hundred more wolves. He touched his companion gently and told him to look where he pointed in the right hand corner of the room. He did so unconcernedly and then he pointed and told him to look the Jeff hand corner. He did 80 and began to get excited. Then he pointed out in the yard. When he saw all those wolves he jumped out of bed and climbed up the wall to a girder