Show ELUSIVE BEAR T vice he ha thou ht lie ho IT had it but lie he seen asen it yet stripped UIS ui vat best apple tree alys Itt uthe the Toler APIL laires Stutt scuttled led up A and its end is ii as an biar am as eer lul is as al a wild race wita wim ci liance tc t ue ine in in favor of the bear the rhe be bos s fol 0 oil a forest road naich went down ll 11 1 fiill I 1 i toward the rh or giving them con id crable erable advantage but their heavy heary ails handicapped handicap peI their progress pre press anil and ny fly the time lime the highway was pined gained he bear was riot not more than 20 rods be nind they were on the old air line turn mke which the federal government con from old od town to Il oulton at lie time lime of the aroostook Aroos tooh took war at leore orestie the railroads were built it was a touch much traveled highway arid and the hotels and aind grog greg geries which stood as is mile tones along its course were vere well pat pal ionized with the he advent of the steam agine all trade was stopped and most I 1 the houses are now besci ted and have lone to ruin fifty rode ahead of I 1 the lie toys was the miles house a wide low ne story wooden building which ac M ears ago was famous all it oer maint aim or the potency of nt its liquors for a line it was kept up as a road house ut mt tour four or five years ago its owners carded up the win windows dovis and left it for lie balsand bats and mice to play iu in the boys lad iid pulled the padlock from ane front loor foor a few weeks before and knew they bould be safe if they con could reach lite he louse aboab of the bear with the bear olla oming irig up fast fasi they the burs buro in ill the door n time to place thir tin r pails in a closet be bc aind the door and climb uati up a ladder to he be I 1 loft laft when the bear came through lie he door they had the ladder half IN ay 0 the chamber floor and laughed loud lying on their faces and an d fanning fann id them ch i IN es with their hats the boys v lie bear it came in ID gazed althem at them for or moment and then began to smell aniell i bout for the berries at times it sat ip p on its haunches and looked at the boys as if asking them where they had i nut ut their pails finally with the as stance istance of his nose it found foulad where the ferries were nere and began to scratch at al he be cload door the door was of beavy pine and hard to open some low in moving about alic he bear lilt hit against the front door and shut it AN n ith a tang though the bear was avas now a prisoner unable to escape from the house louse it did not seem to be worried at L I 1 all wua zo V I 1 THE BEAR GAVE CHASE all but kept pulling away at the closet door until this flew open and the pails were discovered IN hile lite bear was N as eating up the the boys shove I up a chamber window aindow and hi knocking taching oft off thi boards ran out ladder and hurried home loaded with wonderful news they wre not intending to tell bauzell anything about their prisoner preferring to carry the flu tidings tiding fc to their fathers but buzzell me met A them on the road and soon boon pumped I 1 the lie details ile tails from their reluctant mcmorse niem ornis all and d paid each or of the bos one dollar provided they would tell nobody else hiie the weary boa boys s trudged back bach to t the lie miles house v ith louzeil liu zeil they 1 he door ins Inside alc were tio dented tin palls pails arid and a lot of stains chere here the bear had eaten his supper they I 1 0 cd in the office the hirtio sitting oom loom I 1 M scheri ditting room I 1 arid and ail all over the house without finding findert fin dirt the bear the he p cellar e ilar door was fir firmly lally nailed the window windo w boards were in ili place and the shamber ladler ladder was nas ouid ahrn I 1 ahe be boys had bad left it v when bell they the tin pails that a bear had b been e it there lati 13 he 10 buzzell could not alb d dispute bilte N hat the boys hall told him py by all 11 the rules of logic the dear oear should be in the house but from the hie et idenie ol of eualla Euc Du zells lla senses the bear wah NN at not dot there it was ills his plain duty ditty to bil Ill bo s and recover ills his money while lie hebi bated the boys made a close study ot of the situation by chance one looked into the great fireplace fre place am abill haw something A aich hud had escaped DurL Buzzel ells Vs el cheb eb thi bear s gone up th ill chim chambley bley said ill the boy with confidence buzzell also haw bear tracks in the ashes and found bears I 1 hair in ir on the jacubs jambs of the flue lie climbed to the roof of the house like a cat and a a hall half it a bunch of matches threw them down the chimney when the he matelle had gono gone out buthe he made remarks not fit to print the bear had gone out through the great chin chimney incy leaped to the roof and hurried evilly to the woods for more blackberries defore ci fore euzzell buzzell had re lieveld liis bis congested feelings enough to conse come lown down the boys boya lad had gone honie carrying their money and berry pails N T Y sun |