Show MAN UP A TREE TR EE IS SHOT B BY va OWN DOG 0 G pennsylvanian OUT AFTER HONEY FEELS THE C CRUELTY OF FATE CANINE KNOCKED OVER GUN owner falls V ct m to coward ce of animal when latter Is attacked by raccoons peppered ered with shot trout run pa hardly could hard abr r luck befall mankind or one more usual than to which george man of the sugar camp end of rose valley fel a victim a few days ago Stel gleman early in the season when his buckwheat was in blossom had trailed a bee to its lair air about two miles over the hill from his place near the head of the sugar camp tim tire ber her he ile found that the swarm had lived in a leaning oak about 30 feet from the ground in a generous open ing frig caused by the falling out of a rot ted limb the number of bees at work showed to him that the hive was a large swarm and nearly all of them appeared to be working on his buckwheat A few days ago carrying a 50 pound lard can and his big do ible shot gun and accompanied by a small spaniel mr Stel gleman started to harvest the honey tt tie e tree was an easy eazy one of ascent but because of the location of tie tl e opening in which the swarm were hived he bad had difficulty in applying the sulphur fire used by him to destroy the bees so that he might proceed unmolested and to rob the hive he had rested his gun on the ground the muzzle lea leading laing against a small sapling while engaged at smoking out the bees his attention was attracted to the spaniel dorn down on the ground which seemed to be terribly wrought up over something and was barking and growling tor for dear life thought the dog might be putting up a bluff at a bear but he could see nothing so he resumed ned bis his honey gathering he had succeeded in more than half filling his lard can when suddenly the dog again set up a terrible ado this time Stel gleman saw what the trouble was A pair of raccoons that had been nosing nosing abo it under a nearby tree at that in stant making a charge upon the no sy dog the latter in his cow ardice and fright leaped backward against the I 1 merless am gun and his head coming into violent contact with it d the gun went off the great portion of the charge came up into the tree and Stel gleman was fairly riddled addled with shot lie ile lost hold of his honey can and it went fly ing down among the rocks the hone scattering ina in a dozen directions for tuna tely he was able to maintain chiq hi Y 0 I 1 44 the gun went off equilibrium in the tree and after a time succeeded in sliding down to the ground where from pain and loss of blood he lay helpless the spaniel evidently appreciating that something had happened to bis his master set up a terrific barking until several men who were driving along the sugar camp road in the direction of proctor came into the woods and investigated they found Stel gleman helped him out to the wagon and hur ned ried mm him home Stel gleman says that if he had been a boy in a farmer s red rei apple tree and the farmer had turned a blunderbuss blunder bus on him the shot could not have come thicker or straighter than when his I 1 dog fired his own gun at him |