Bear Hunting in the Par West

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 7 February 1890, Page 3

Bear Hunting in the Par West

• -• As Old Guidk's Story Of Adventure. . • " Come,! I said, ' let us go for them and wind this thing up.' Out we •went guns i<i hand, and opened up such a fusillade as had not been heard since the army left Gettysburg Camp laid out the big fellow, and Pete killed the two next, while I did my best to get away with tbe other two. I got the cinnamon and wounded rhe black bear, but he got off. Hs hide seemed as tough as

■ h'd Bui.a of an ironcla^ nn( j « Uougb. T filled him. "mil of lead, still •lo ctoried it itf&y. We shinned up rb?i four b£nrs, and taking a lew *!• 'aba from tho hindquarters of one K Mie young onos, went to oucabin for supper. Before eight fell Camp stud ho would go out and sni-iulde a little honoy on the elk i-uofif ami fix tho tree and stone all viglit He did so, and we sat down to v gamo ot 'old sledge' with, our i'ipt's and a good hot tankard of I'niu. All night long we could he-ir the vrolves howling and th» bears ftghtiug about the tr«e over th« honay, and next morning — " Here ?teene looked hard at Pi-ootoi*, who was dozing and nodding by the Ptove. Winking to Ooonvod, ho said in a loud voice : '' Nou morning we found a hundred and twenty seven dead bears about tlie tree.' ''I knew it was all a lie," cried Proet >r, now wide awake, " and if the lyiug in all over for the night, I"l just turn down the lights and up the store." 'No, ; ' said Steone, !; we didn't find any dead bears, but we did find the carcass of the elk eaten up aud the bones licked clean and white, and there were lots of fresh beuv trn:' s to their dens in the rocks." ' :i Pete said he was going out to find tho black bear and trail him, i>r he wanted the hide for General ( "rook, who had told him to get a !4>;od black liear skin. if. he could. .Mtont noon Pete returned aud said lit had found a den in the rocks on the mountain, three miles from camp, in which then? seemrd to be four or five back bears. He did not want to 1 tickle fhem n,lon«, and had come back for hep. It was too late to begin the battle that day, and so it wa.s arranged that wo would Trait until tho day fol'owing, when we would go up and attack the ..bears iv their don. 1 ' Old Stoeris paused, and looking at iiis watch, remarked that it was a quarter to twelve o'clock, and he p-iu;ssr>d he would have to defer tellIng about tha fight at the bears' den until snmo other time. :: Thank you," said Proctor; " if the lying for the night is over, I'll put oir tho lights." 1 : Hold on I cried Coonrod. " Just ahrtlco up Barney and have the glasses all fiilled with a nightcap, nnd then we'll go to bed. It was a very good bear story." i; And a true one," remarkad Sterme. ' ; In a pig's eye," added Proctor. Tames S. Bribbin. Port Kobin<*oi), Neb.. March, 21. 188 f». . _ ' From the New York Tribune. I