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Show BUTTERWICK'S BEAR H By Max Adder H Butteiwlck was out lit Colorado 3 ant spring Tor a nioiitli or two, and 1 just before ho started for thu Jour H noy home, lie wrote to hi wife con- H coming tlic probable tlmu or hla ar- fl rival. Ah a iHistscrlpt to the letter H he ndded the following messagu to H hla Hon, u buy about eight yearn old: H, "Tell Charley I nin going to bring H -with me a dear little baby bear that Bi I bought front an Indian." On the night which had been fixed B by llutterwlck for IiIb arrival, ho . tie did not come, and the family were 1 ver much dlsnppolnted. Charley, B particularly, was cut up because ho LLH couldn't got the bear. 1 On the next evening, while Mrs. B llutterwlck and the children were sit- ting In the front room, with the door B open Into thu hall, they beard Home- body running through thu front yard, H Tbn the front door was suddenly 1 lmr.it open, and a man dashed Into H tlio hall and upRtalra nt frightful H Mrs. llutterwlck was JiiHt about to go up after lilm to ascertain who It wns, when a large, dark nnlmnl of H some kind darted In through thu H door, nnd with nn awful growl wont bowling upRtalrn after thu man. It H suddenly llaidicd upon thu. mind of H Mth. llutterwlck that thu man wnH H lier husband, and that that wax the H llttlo baby bear. H .lust then the voice of llutterwlck H was heard calling from thu top land- H "Maria! for Heaven's Hake get out H of thu house na quick oh you can, and H ' shut all t)io doora and window-abut- H Then Mth. llutterwlck sent thu H ' boya Into l'artrldgo'H, next door, and H j alio closed thu nhuttorH, locked all H the doors, and went Into the ynrd to H await further developments When H' alio got outHlde she saw llutterwlck H on the roof, kneeling on the trap- H door, which ho kept down only by H the moflt tremendous cxertlona, H J Then he screamed for somebody to H comu up and help him, and Mr. Part- H'; ridge got a ladder and a hatchet, and H' no mo units, and ascended, Then they nailed down thu trnp-door, and Hrj . Iluttorwlck nnd Partridge came down H the ladder together. After he had W greeted his family, Mrs. llutterwlck Hl staked him what was thu matter, and Hg ho HtT "Why, you know that llttlo baby bear I said I'd bring Charley? Well, f I had him In u box until I got off the K trnln up hero nt tho depoL And then if " I thought I'd take him out and lead H f him around by thu chain. Hut tho Br -. first thing ho did was to fly nt my I""1 leg, nnd when I Jumped Imck I ran, nnd ho nftur mo. Ho woulil'vo eaten mo up In about a minute. That Infernal In-fernal Indian must havo fooled mo. lie said It wna a cub only two months old, and It had no teeth. I believe Jt' a full-grown bear." It then became a very Interesting !, question how they should get that 1 bear out of the Iiouhu llutterwlck H'l thought they hud hotter try to shoot M j blui, and he tisked n lot of tho neigh- jcj bore to come nroiiud to help with Hj their Rhotguna. When they would H hear tho bear acrntchlng at one of Hu tho wlndowa they would pour In a H volley nt him, but after riddling M every shutter oii thu flrat floor, they H( could atlll hear tho bear tearing Ha nrouud In there and growling. HJm Then Pnrtrldgo said maybe a H ( ' couple of good dogs might whip him, HB! and he borrowed u bulldog nnd a. sot- HH ter from llnmoy Mnglnn and pushed Hfj thorn through thu front door. They HJ " listened, and for half nn hour they Hb1) could hear u most terrific contest rag- ' Then ovcrythlng became still, nnd Htl n few momenta Intor they could hear Hj the bear eating something and crack- ' lug bones with hla teeth. H;' At Inst llutterwlck thought ho H'; would try strategy. Ho procured a ; ' huge Iron hook with a sharp point H' to it, tied It to a rope, and put three H ' or four pounds of fresh beer on thu H hook. Tlion he went up the ladder, H. ' opened the trnpdoor la tho roof, Hj'j and dropped In the halt. In a few ' ( moments ho got n bite, nnd nil hands H. mnnned tho rope and pulled, when W "1 C1UU l'nrtrldgu'a hulldug, which ! had been hiding In the garret, lint- ,'v terwlck waa disgusted, hut hu put H' on fresh halt and throw In again, H and In about nn hour tho bear took H hold and they hauled lilm out and H I knocked him on the bond, ' ; Then they entered thu houso In H:! tho hall the curpct.wna covered with U particles of dead sottur, nnd In tho H'j pnrlor tho carpet and tho windows H'i had been shot to pieces, while thd fe furnltiiro wan full or bullet-holes. l, Tho boar bad amaahod tho mirror, j torn up fdx or soveu chairs, knocked H:p. over tho lamp, and demolished all tho H crockery In tho pnntry. Iluttorwlck H ; gritted his teeth ns he survoyed tho H; ruin, and Mra. Iluttorwlck said alio H'y wished to patlenco hu had stayed In H2 Colorado. However, they fixed things H'1 up as well as they could, nnd then Hj2 Mrs. Iluttorwlck sent Into Partridge's for Charley and tho youngest girl. H When Charley came ho rushed up to Hkj llutterwlck, and said: HY -"''' "Ohi pop! whornV my little baby Rj bear?" K Then nuttcrwlek ftaM at him ao- Hn verely for a moment, looked around Hil to soo U Mrs. llutterwlck hnd left the Hj room, and thou gavo Charley thu Hk most torrlflo spanking that hu ttvur K rocelvod. KM, The llutterwlck children liuve no Hh potB, nt preHutit. but n Poland loostor Kd which has inoulle.l his toll. |
