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Show A THRILLING SCENE. A thrilling scene interrupted the monotony of a Montreal saloon the other day. The keeper had a bear-pit under his saloon, in which were kept a male bear weighing four hundred pounds, a she-bear and two cubs, and allowed visitors to his place to see them without charge through a trap-hole in the floor. While a number of persons were inspecting the animals, a six-year-old son of the keeper fell into the pit, and was seized by the she-bear before any one could lend his aid. The father, hearing his child's screams rushed downstairs and leaped into the den, and dragging the boy from the bear's grasp, tossed him out of the trap. The infuriated bear then attacked the father, throwing him down and severely biting his knee. His life was in imminent danger when, fortunately, he laid hold up on a loose brick, and by hitting the brute on the snout, forced it to let go its hold, and was drawn up out of his perilous position by the spectators. |