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Show H i " 4 - 1 1 H I -HC- "SHOOED" THE BEARSr H ' A Fence Rail Mr. Halllday's Only H j Weapon of Defense. H Mr. and Mrs. Hobson Hallldny and 1 A tholr daughter, Miss Edith, and Mr. H and Mrs. C. F. Fink, also of Now H I York, had an exciting moonlight en H counter with a full-grown bear and H , two cubs at Beach's Comers, town H 1 1 of Jowctt, on tho mountain top, says M J 1 a Catskill, N. Y., dispatch. Tho party H had been mnklng a carriago drlvo H v through tho mountains for a week or H more. On tho way to Huntor, they H 'stopped at a farmhouse nt Beach's H Corners because of a breakdown. H Starting for a moonlight stroll after Q supper, they Boon found themselves a J mllo from tho farmhouse, when Mrs. Fink, who was slightly in advance, fl If nearly stepped on n bear and two cubs H lying in tho middle of tho road, Par- alyzcd by fear, she was unablo to . utter a sound. Just as tho niothor H boar aroso and gazed about, tho rost H of tho party appeared around a bend H In tho road. H Mr. Ilalliday solzcd a fonca rail H nnd sought to "shoo' 'the bear nnd H cubs into tho thlckot. Instead, how- fl over, tho mother bear advanced to- H ward Mrs. Fink. Slio sprang back H and climbed a fence. At this stage B somo coon hunters camo along and Vi tbo boars rotrcatcd into a thlckot. |