Show HE H a BELIEVED THE TH BEAU BEAR STORY No Accounting For What Bruin Will Do When He Gets Irritated Harpers HS Weekly In Austin Auti one otto afternoon says sas Sen ator Bailey of or Texas Je ua a number of nuber state legislators and andi an not a a few lawyers were telling stories of bear bea hunting A from the Gua bet bot te bt toms told a story stor of slaughter of the Bruin family that would have been ben calculated to astonish the late Baron Ban Munchausen The Th teller tele of ot this thi story was wa of course coure the th hero of the devas tation related relate and aa It seemed pretty see clear cle from his recital that he had ha ex cx terminated all al the bears ba once so s thick in I n the dense dene canebrakes and ad swampy Jungles j of his hi region When the had ba finished his tale te there the arose ase a a chorus cho of or dissent Nearly Nely every eve man present pent swore sore round rud roundy ly l y against ant the Improbability of or the te ad adventures adventures ventures In fact at several of his au en tUtors did not scruple to apply a a plain epithet to that tat Individual in and ad a a gen general gene general eral e clamor ensued ense Against Aast this popular verdict there therea was a found fou only one champion This Tt was I a wiry wi little man man who 0 up up to that time Ume had not spoken 5 ha oke a t word wor Gentlemen remarked he when the noise nois had subsided I 1 believe noie ha beleve every word our or friend frien has ha uttered utere You are aie ae Incredulous os simply because beuse you yu had haid ha his hi opportunities for fo slaughtering big Now I myself game ge have had experiences In that line lne back bak In old Mississippi that I almost dread dea to tell you OU of f lest let you should think that tha I Ito tion too to wee were drawing da ngon on my imagination Imagination ton I could tell teU you of the greatest bear be hunt hut in i history back there on onDer Deer Der creek cr We started ste our same game ge one Saturday morning and ad followed him through six counties coute camping on his hist trail t every ee night His tracks tr were wee of the tho size sze of a bushel measure mouI At the end of the third thir week we UD us with ih him our ur dogs having brought him to bay b in a a thick swamp swamp I was wa in inthe inthe Inthe the lead le of my comrades end and a as I approached the te scene sene gave a yell JeU of encouragement to the dogs With Wih that they closed cloe in on ott the bear be With Wit one stroke of his terrible paw aw that tat bear ber slew of or the best bet hunting dogs dog In Mississippi and the rest fled fed I avenged my dogs dog by shooting the bear bea through the brain brn He weighed some 1200 pounds When the wiry little man had f lip fin his hta hi story there was not a word except from the man from Guadaloupe an infernal infer ye lie e he shouted In a a twinkling the man ma from Mis Mississippi Mississippi Is had ha Jumped jupe for the fellow elo and ad they tey went to the floor foor the little fel Id low on top choking his adversary vi vl viciously viciously H You dont believe beleve it eh demanded deman d dhe he fairly raining ring blows upon the pros prostrate prostrate victim Then take te that that and ad that ad that Dont you believe belee it i I be believed believed your Jour bear story sto and ad be believe believe zie lieve mine mine or Ill 11 beat you JOU to a fraz frazzle fr frazzie Gaping for breath and ad begging beggin for mercy the defeated one rose to his knees kne end and td blurted out The gentleman is telling the truth Theres no accounting for what a bear will do o when he lie gets irritated |