Show J IN i TIGHT CORNER t Trapper Tells How It Feels to Be Trapped reer f Bear Hunter Experienced r F r able Night In Snare He Had Prepared Prepared Pre Pre- pared for Ferocious Old Grizzly Old Mose was one of ot the most ferocious ferocious ferocious fe fe- bears In the He w was wasa s sa a notorious bad actor according to Mr A A. A L. L Corson In the Wide World Magazine and foiled all attempts attempts' to shoot or trap him Indeed he be seemed to have hare a charmed life On one occasion a man named Hancock Hancock Han llano cock tried to trap him In placing the bait Inside the trap Hancock accidentally accidentally ac ac- ac- ac touched the trigger and the logs came down and Imprisoned him He tried to pry the heavy timbers apart but found that ho ha could not shift shUt them an Inch From one side of ot the trap to the other he went unconsciously unconsciously unconsciously Imitating the movements Bruin would have made in hunting for a weak point All his efforts were fruitless The pangs of ot hunger were now coming com corn ing lug on and night was near Hancock scraped up some chips and twigs made madea a fire tire and roasted part of ot the deer that he be had brought to bait the trap with Being lightly dressed he suffered suffered suf suf- keenly from the cold night air He lay Jay down on the ground but suddenly suddenly sud sUllo denly he Ile heard sniffing sounds outside outside outside out out- side and detected by the dim light of ot the moon a dark form gazing through the chinks between the logs Jogs Hancock felt safe although his gun was standIng standIng standing stand- stand Ing by a tree some distance from the trap for Mose tor Mose-tor for It was no other other- other other- seemed to to realize the fact Knowing his savage nature Hancock Hancock Hancock Han Han- cock withdrew to the other side of the trap as the big t form rm rose up on his hind legs He lie could feel the bears bear's hot breath surging through between the logs upon his face and fearing that the brute would thrust his claws In be he kept moving from side to side Da Daylight lIght came at last and Mose trotted off oft Again Hancock built a afire afire fire and cooked the rest of the deer meat He almost decided to set one end of the trap on fire and burn his way out But what If It he were unable unable un un- un able to control the blaze If he could reach his rifle he be would be In a position position position tion to shoot his way out for he had hada a 1 belt bett full of cartridges s. s His horse tired of standing round had long Jong ago made for home borne The next morning the neighbors seeing Hancocks Hancock's horse In the yard ard surmised that the outlaw of the Rock Rock- ies IQs had secured another victim Se Sev- Sev e cattlemen started out In search rt of f Hancock In the middle of the afternoon they heard shooting g b but t at first arst the they could see nothing Hancock had torn his shirt into strips making a roP rope about 20 feet long He lIe had bad then tied two stones to a string about a yard ard long and anil f fastened fas fas- fastened s. s one end of the long line to the middle Then he be threw the stones out between the cracks of his prison toward the rifle After two hours of practice he was able to drag the gun within reach rench He then then- tried desperately desperately des des- to rut nit his way out by shooting shoot shoot- big ing holes through a log about a foot In id diameter Before Detore he got ver very far his comrade comrades had located the shots a and d released him |