Show I 1 A bear fight I 1 on oil sunday morning sirs snyder r I 1 of glen wild sullivan county new yirk stepped to her brick back door to shake her table cloth when the blie dropped the cloth null and screamed for approaching pro pron aching ching the house will nil all the coolness band and deliberation of 0 a light ning rod agent was a bear as big as a year yearling flog heifer belfer it had conic come up out of the deep gully below bowers sawmill saw mill will mrs snyders screams brought others to tile scene ond and the bear after looking 0 on oil in ILI apparent enjoyment of the scene his appearance had bad made turned find walked slowly to tile the road on oil the opposite sido field ila iio took his h w way down the road and then went oft off into the woods there were no real bear hunters at glen wild just then I 1 it being a a 0 good 0 od day city for trout but buc there were six men left it in the place who knew something 0 about coons and they concluded to learn something about bears they got their X guns guns called ft ditc re dogs together and way they went they followed the trail tor for three miles I 1 the file dogs were ahead and evident evidently y comer eager 0 for the fray by find and by the hunters bunters heard a great commotion and in a short little lime four out of the five dogs do t 9 come came tearing a back they never r stop stopped wit when en they reached the hunters but kept kepi rim right h it on oil lit tho the direction of open country from the expression of their eyes the amateur hunters concluded that the do dos dogs s had seen secil something presently there came from somewhere beyond them the sound of a heavy body approaching through the brush and the next instant instant S the huge form of the bear opp appeared cared and it kept coming 0 right 0 on the hunters turned oil aud d followed thy the dogs and soon left the boar bear far in the rear the hear bear however followed and shortly after the young men reached snyders house bruin appeared on tile hie edge of the field ind and afterward walked composedly across it within ten rods of the house when ho he got opposite the house he topped stopped and the hunters fired it a volley at him A shot or two took effect for the bear made off limping badly and disappeared in tile the gulley below the mill the litin hunters the courage to follow him all and it at lau last accounts he was still at large the fifth do dog was found iu in the he 1 at it the spot where tile the bear hall had evidently fallen foul out of the five it was dead and every bone in its body broken braken new yo york tic sun |