RECREATION. 

THE BEAR WAS SAFE. 
O. F. LAMBERTSON. 
As I listened for a sound in the perfect 
stillness around me I became aware of a feel- 
ing of nervousness, trifling at first, but which 
later developed into a genuine chill. 
Before proceeding, let me set the scene, 
that you may understand my position. Be- 
hold me up a tree, at II p. m., with no habi- 
tation within 50 miles and my 2 companions 
3 or 4 miles distant. 
We were a party of young fellows canoe- 
ing through the waterways between Ver- 
milion lake and the Rainy lake country, with 
too much confidence in our own ability and 
too little money in our pockets to hire a 
guide. One afternoon, while paddling up a 
small stream that emptied into a lake near 
our camp, we saw numerous signs of moose 
and bear. It is natural for every one with 
sporting proclivities to want to kill a bear, 
and we were not exceptions to the rule. We 
began our arrangements for the slaughter of 
Bruin by killing a bull moose for bait; and 
that is how I happened to be in the tree. Of 
course I was not afraid to stay on the 
ground. I climbed the tree merely to be 
able to see over the underbrush and obtain 
a good view of the carcass. The increased 
gravity of my nervous symptoms was caused 
by the crackling of sticks, followed by the 
appearance of a bear. My sudden start—of 
surprise, shall I say?—dislodged my rifle 
which I had laid across 2 limbs. Of course 
it went to the ground. The bear stopped for 
a moment, listened, and then went directly 
to the carcass of the moose. Giving a grunt 
of satisfaction over his discovery, he imme- 
diately began to invite an acute attack of 
dyspepsia by overloading his stomach. 
A few minutes passed, and an old she bear 
with 2 cubs joined in the feast. More guests 
were likely to appear, and there I was sepa- 
rated from my old partner, the Winchester, 
by many feet of altitude. I must have that 
gun, I mused; but how to get it? Go down 
and get it, of course! To be candid I was 
afraid to go down after it, and afraid to stay 
in the tree without it. Yet it would never 
do to let the bears go without having a shot 
fired at them. What would my partners say 
when they found the moose torn to pieces 
and no dead bear? I finally concluded, like 
Johnny, to get my gun. I descended quietly 
and slowly, grabbed my rifle and scrambled 
up the tree again faster than any squirrel 
ever did, urged as I was by the fancy that all 
4 of the bears were nipping at my legs. I 
had just regained my position, when I 
caught a glimpse of the last cub disappear- 
ing in the underbrush. I risked a hasty 
shot; the limb I was sitting on broke, and I 
knew nothing more until I was restored to 
consciousness by about 6 fingers of old rye, 
poured down my throat by one of my com- 
panions. 
From early boyhood I had been a great 
bear hunter—in my mind—but my short 
vigil that night, in a Minnesota pine tree, 
taught me the difference between imagina- 
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