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Show j Miscellany j Remarkable Maine Bear. Just up beyond the toll bridge, on the other sWe of the Trenton line, on Mount , Desert, the residents have been alarmed 1 this spring at tho presence, so they say, of a phantom bear with a big knapBack on his shoulder. I Even the men, although hardly feipnlng j to believe the yarns, aren't noticeably I anxious to wander fur from their own firesides after the sun sets. Kph Mason is known among his neighbors neigh-bors as a man of unimpeachable veracity. Kph saw him, or at It-am says he did, and as Kph is six feet two in his homespun home-spun stockings, no one cares to dispute the fact with him. Eph told about it down nt the grocery stove: "I was jest goin out to my pig pen," said Eph, "with a bucket of swill to feed the piss. It was git tin' kinder dusky, an' T thought I saw some thin leanin' over the fence, somethin' kinder dark, an' I thought that the dum eow had broken the fence an' got into the yeard. It provoked pro-voked me, sorter, 'cause vhat 'ere cow is gittln' breachier an' breachier. an' I swore at her in some quite considerable language. lan-guage. In fact. T addressed her in what you might call some quite glowin' term.?. Finally I picked up a big rock an' let her have it full tilt. 1 hit her plumb in tiie side, an' then , ".y,ufferin' cats. T thought my time had come. sure. A big black h'ar rlz ripht up stidcly -on his hind legs an' looked at me. He looked's big ez a mountain there in the twilight, an I was so blame skeered I stood still in my tracks without savin' a word. He stood there an' grunted, an thenN picked the fattest shote T had up under one arm. I was conn tin' eonsid -erable on that shote. but I didn't dare to say anything, becnz I didn't have so much ez a pitchfork with me. An" what do you think? "That b'ar took a big crocus bag. held it wide open in his mouth jest like my wife will a pillpr case when she's making the bed, an' poured Mr. Shote Into it quicker than you could say scat to a tomcat. Then Mr. B'ar wunk at me kinder solemn, put the. bag over his shoulder, shoul-der, an' walked off into the woods big ez life. I'm not naturally very timid, but I'll be durned if I care to have any dealln's with a beast tliHt's so dum cute as that." Philadelp'nia Record. |