Show A real fishing yarn seeing some of your elsh and bear stories in maine woods 1 must con fess some of them do smell a little fishy and for a change I 1 will give you one founded on facts you see it was this way we were fishing on one of the keswick lakes in the spring of 1893 and our catch had been enormous about 3 clock in the afternoon we heard a peculiar noise on the bank of the lake like tearing of roots so we went to investigate and on nearing the shore were sur to find a large black bear dig ging up the ground to beat nine of a kind we lay low to watch and what do you think he was doings why he was digging worms and after putting nice tat angle worms on each of his forepaws tore paws he ventured out in the lake on an old sunken log put down his forefeet in the water and actually scooped out huge trout so thick and fast that he almost darkened the sun after a while thinking there was enough fish for us we put an ounce ball in his head talk about fish great heavens there lay trout two feet deep on which two young cubs were gorging themselves well we skinned that bear and wishing to se cure the cub alive I 1 just threw the bearskin over me and got down on all fours and those cubs followed me right into camp thinking it was moth er bear the cubs I 1 afterward sold for 25 each and the hide of the mother bear which was a very large one brought me 40 not too bad a days work oh yes about those fish on the bank well we went back the next day and up twenty four barrels of the best of those trout the rest were left to rot in the sun we put those elsh in cold storage and we have some of them yet next maine woods |