RECREATION. 



Volume XXII. JANUARY, 1905 Number i 



G. 0. SHIELDS (COQUINA), Editor and Manager 



A BLACK BEAR AND A WHITE SWEDE. 



FRANK MOSSMAN. 



The black bear of Washington is their dining room he saw a big bear, 



not particular what he eats as long as with a pig in its arm, climbing over 



it fills a want on the belt line. He loves the swill buffet. 



honey and will knock over a beehive The Swede was naturally wroth. As 



and fight off the bees with one paw he had no gun he took the first wea- 



while he helps himself to honey steaks pon handy, which happened to be a 



with the other. He likes salmon eggs, pitchfork, and made for the bear. The 



and when salmon ascend the small brute paid little attention to this as- 



streams to spawn, our friend is on sault until he got a jab in the solar 



hand to rob the nest, or rather the sal- plexus. Then he dropped the hog 



mon. He will catch a salmon, split and the fight was on. . They sparred 



her open, eat the eggs, and repeat the cautiously for an opening. Bruin 



play until he is eggs-hausted, or runs thought he saw one and made a swipe, 



out of material. but Olsen's face got in the way. Hon- 



He also loves pork, and will go to ors were even, with first blood for the 

 the hog pen and gather a squealing bear. About that time the thought 

 hog in his arms as a mother does her struck Olsen that he could fight better 

 baby boy. Every time the hog yells if he was not in his Sunday clothes, 

 the bear sits down and cuffs its bris- It must have struck the bear, too, for 

 ties off. If the bear gets into the tim- with a right and left swing he re- 

 ber with it, he sits on his haunches moved the Swede's glad togs. As the 

 and cuffs the poor swine until it is fight then stood it was 2 to one on the 

 converted into pork chops, spareribs bear and 2 to one against the bear. Ol- 

 and other appetizing eatables. After sen backed around the ring, wearing 

 eating a whole hog our friend does not only a look of agony and a pair of 

 like hog meat for a day or 2. He straw colored whiskers, 

 crawls into a thicket, looking as if he j wo , voun g ladies from a neighbor- 

 would like to unload some of his stock m g ra nch, attracted to the scene by 

 on his friends at a big discount. the noise looked into the pen, saw a 



A Swede farmer named Olsen dis- bi utl draped Swede playing peek-a- 



covered a bear with a hog m its arm boQ with a bear and kt QUt a few Ug 



and chasing another That bear be- & ^^ thektter tQ break for the 

 lieved in going the whole hog or none. 



Olsen had been to a country dance, tall timber The Swede dusted for 



not getting home until about daylight, the house ; he was of a retiring, mod- 



As he neared his wickiup he heard his est disposition. The fight was off, but 



hogs yelling fire. He ran to the resi- Olsen will never again try to pitch- 



dence of the porkers, and as he entered fork a bear into the Great Beyond. 



