Show IS SAVED BY WOODEN LEG bear when surprised claws horseback riders artificial limb sunbury pa john davidson Dav ldson a cat mountain farmer who lives near the town of that name says saya be Is glad bo be has a wooden leg for it saved him serious hurts tn in a battle with a bear davidson Dav ldson says saya ho he was riding horseback along the susquehanna which skirts dense mountain growths at that I 1 point when he saw a black bear fishing in the river it would dive down and como coma up with a floh in its mouth angered by hla hin approach bruin dropped a fish and gave chase but davidson Dav ldson drew draw hla his revolver and tired ile iio missed and the animal came caine on after him and bit and clawed ai his wooden doodan leg lie fired bred again and then a freight train approached on a railroad near by this together with the tooting of the locomotive whistle frightened tho the beast and it dropped to its ita feet beet and ambled off into tho the woods the farmer exhibited a torn pair of trousers and lacerated wooden leg to his bis friends as proof of the truth of his bis story |