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Show BROUGHT HIM IN ALIVE. <br><br> A defeated man is fortunate if he happens to be a witty one too. He can save his credit by his explanation. An exchange tells us how a lucky phrase of army language brought a certain "hero" out of a doubtful hunting experience with success.<br><br> A party of soldiers "out West," not having much to do, resolved to go bear hunting. They had been out about sixteen hours and had not seen a bear, and, being tired and hungry, returned to camp. On their arrival at headquarters they missed one of their companions, but thought nothing of it, one of them remarking.-<br><br> "He will return all right."<br><br> They made their camp-fire, and commenced preparing for supper. They put the coffee over the fire; one of them began slicing some potatoes, another was [line unreadable] the fire waiting, when they were all startled by a terrible noise that seemed to come nearer to camp. Suddenly the thickets parted, and in rushed the missing man, his hair standing on end, his face deadly white, his gun gone, and his arms flying in the air, as if grasping for imaginary objects, and about two feet behind him came a great black bear. The pursued soldier turned when he say the bear drop, and, looking at one of them, said, breathlessly,-<br><br> "Is he dead?"<br><br> One of the men asked,-<br><br> "Why didn't you shoot him, instead of running?"<br><br> "What do you take me for?" replied the missing one. "Do you think I was such a fool as to shoot him, when I could bring him in alive?" |