Show RUTH TALE I 1 DU r editors note the writer of t ol lowina lowing tale is well known i lo 10 lie ile is a nephew augh edwards and visited hr he ast summer his grand grandi mohe nohe J edwards of borger texts ent bent the story to us while vacationing in the blue mountains fountains last summer I 1 me met an lid id man who had spent all his ife hunting in that region one lay ay while I 1 was talking to him he wung upon me with this tale when I 1 was a young feller here was an old wolf in these darts called old four toe ile he rt it this name ba b bad oell four faur toes on one foot which made his is tracks very noticeable deer season had opened and I 1 was hunting in the hills when I 1 ran across the tracks of old four toe toc I 1 started tracking hirn him and had walked for miles when I 1 saw him fighting with a hig big bear I 1 shot at the wolf and killed him imy aly bullet went clear through him and struck the bear but only dazed him I 1 reloaded and fired again and killed him this time when I 1 got to my prey I 1 found they had been fighting over a large deer tie the leer deer was still fresh and good 1 I loaded the animals on my pack horse and went back t to camp I 1 had bagged my limit in deer a big 1200 pound bear and a handsome reward which vilich had been offered for old four toe in two shots you can never tell when an old mountain man is telling the truth or just a big whopper and so ill just call this a questionable tale dick edwards |