Best Bear Story 



Bruin Tired of Holding Hunter On His Back 



The best bear story of the season concerns A. J. 

 Gilfillan and Messers Swanson, Crawford and Thomas, 

 employes of the Holmes & Gilfillan plant and the Roy- 

 alba farm, and Chas. Croissant, a Game Warden and 

 a 200 pound Black Bear. The bear was sighted in the 

 vicinity of Daly Brook last Friday and the above nam- 

 ed party of enthusiastic hunters on receipt of the news 

 lost no time in starting for the scene. Arriving there 

 the party deployed through the woods in an effort to 

 round up the bear. Croissant took up a watching posi- 

 tion on a vantage point offered by a pile of brush and 

 the other hunters scattered through the woods. After 

 a futile search, the hunters abandoned the chase and 

 on returning, were greeted with the sight of fresh bear 

 tracks crossing their own tracks, indicating that the 

 bea'r had been hunting them instead of them the bear. 

 It developed that bruin had secreted himself under the 

 very brush pile upon which Mr. Croissant took up bis 

 position and evidently becoming tired of bearing 

 Charlie's weight on its back had crawled out from in 

 under and made its get-away, and the hunter never 

 saw or heard the animal when it departed. McKean 

 County Democrat, 1920. 



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