The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-05-31

grant from the States, trapped bears
and he was one of the greatest bear
men In Maine"
BEARS DODGE MEN
A bear, explains Mr.. Drew, Is no
different from any other wild animal.
mans. He keeps asi far away from
them as possible. 1t Is only when
cornered that he will come into the
sight of man.
Last fall" said Mr. Drew In talk
ing about bears, my nine years old
girl started for school. She had gone
but little way from the house when
she saw bear. She was frightened
and ran back to the house. crying
and told her mother. My wife isn't
afraid of them She was born and
brought up In this country and, as
remarked, comes of a famous fam
lily OF bear hunters. She didn't cuddle
the little one in her arms and tell
her not to he afraid OF the old bear,
that mumsey wouldn't let 1t hurt her.
Instead she grabbed 1910 off the
hook, made sure the magazine was
loaded, and started up the road look
ing for that bear. She didn't find it,
although she went clear to the school
house with the little girl. That
night, when the girl came home from
school, she saw bear cub playing of
in the valley. Now, when the
bear saw the girl In the morning she
undoubtedly was just as anxious to
get away as was the girl; that's why
the wife didn't see the bear when she
went cunning for It,"
What would the wife have done
had she seen the bear?'
Disgust was in every line of Mr..
Drew's face as he repeated the Ques-
ton. ~
What would she had done, Mister!
she'd have shot the bear dead II there
was any virtue In ep-up, and | tell
you there is! That's what she'd a
done!"
SURE WAY TO DRIVE DEER
The surest way to drive deer is to
do some shooting In place where
they have been in the habit of COM
ing and feeding In, safety, says Mr..
Drew. This, he urges. Is true of all
wild animals. In support of 1t he
calls attention to the fact that out In
one of the National Parks, there is
pond which Is always covered with
ducks. No one can shoot duck
there except with camera; and the
camera user can get near enough to
them at all times for close ups,
while at another pond, only five or
six miles away, where gun shooting
is allowed not duck Is to be seen
at any time.
The orchard at his place nearly a
century old. for II was set out by
Grandfather Bodfsh when he came
here in 1927. Deer have always made
1t feeding ground In the fall sea-
son.
They have come into II Of nights to
eat the windfalls and, probably,
some apples from the trees. No one
ever shot a deer in that orchard. 1t
was one of the rules laid down by
Grandfather Bodfish. It was not I'M
til some half dozen years ago. that a
group of men from down Guilford
way came up. stole into the orchard
by night, and shot two or three deer
which came there to feed. Since
then not a deer has been near the
orchard, says Mr. Drew, but, he adds,
last fail the deer were eating In
large numbers on the opposite side
of the brook not ten rods away.
This circumstance. Mr.. Drew feels,
is positive proof that to drive deer
away at points near a settlement one
has but to shoot single animal,
and that is why his positive orders
to men In his lumber crews is;
"shoot no deer near the camp. Let
them alone; induce them to come
around. 1t is better than to eat ven
ison." Lewiston Journal.
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