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Rhymes of The Stream and Forest 
FRANK MERTON BUCKLAND 
One of the freshest, most delightful collections of outdoor verse offered for 
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FOUR BEAR'S. 
William Misner, of Frost Valley, proved 
himself the banner b6ar hunter of the Catskills 
this winter by shooting four bears recently on 
Graham Mountain along the West Branch of the 
Neversink. Misner took the bears down to 
Kingston and was about town looking for a 
purchaser, says the Catskill Daily Mail. It is 
not often that a bear hunter is as fortunate as 
Misner in getting four bears at once, and in 
as short a time, for he was on their trail less 
than four hours when he found where they had 
holed up. 
He struck their tracks in the snow just below 
the dam at Winnisook and followed them 
around the side of Hemlock Mountain down the 
West Branch to Rock Brook, where they fol¬ 
lowed up the stream to a ledge on the side of 
Graham Mountain. He had not followed their 
tracks far along the side of this ledge when he 
saw about twenty rods ahead of him where they 
had gone into a cave. As he stood watching 
the mouth of the cave wondering how he could 
best approach it without alarming the bears, one 
of them came out on a run and started up the 
side of the mountain. Misner was prepared for 
just such a move, and, as the bear started across 
an opening in the brush about twenty-five feet 
from the cave, fired, hitting it in the shoulder. 
The bear dropped to the ground, but was up 
again in less than a minute. As it started off 
Misner fired again, hitting it in the head and 
killing it. 
After determining that the bear was dead, 
Misner set about trying to get the other three. 
He crawled in the cave a short distance to make 
sure there was no other opening for the bears 
to go out by, then formed his plan to get them 
out. He found there was a rock across the end 
of the crevice that could be pried away with a 
crowbar, so after firing five or six shots in the 
cave he gathered a lot of rocks and walled up 
the mouth. After fixing this so he was sure the 
bears could not throw it down, he went home 
for a crowbar. This he got, and secured two 
other men to help him. When they reached the 
cave it took but a short while to pry away the 
rock at the end of the crevice. When this was 
done, the stones were removed from the mouth 
of the cave, and while one of the men went into 
the crevice and drove the bears down to the 
mouth of the cave, Misner shot them as they ap¬ 
peared. 
The first bear shot proved to be the mother 
and the others were cubs. The she bear when 
dressed weighed 164 pounds and the cubs 52, 58 
and 61 pounds. Had the cubs been smaller the 
she bear would probably have put up a fight, 
but as they were well grown, her object in run¬ 
ning away was to get the hunter to chase her 
and allow the cubs to escape. 
PHEASANTS TOO TAME. 
Out of some 6,000 English pheasants dis¬ 
tributed in various parts of Missouri late last 
summer by State Game and Fish Commissioner 
Jesse A. Tolerton, reports have been received 
from all but fourteen shipments, according to a 
Missouri paper. In these latter cases it ap¬ 
pears that nothing has been seen of the birds 
since they were liberated. In the case of all 
other shipments reports are satisfactory. 
One thing that is worrying Mr. Tolerton not 
a little is the fact that in a number of instances 
these birds show a disposition to become 
domesticated. Many persons to whom he 
shipped the birds report that they are disposed 
to stay about the barnyard and in some in¬ 
stances have become almost as tame as 
chickens. Whether this will continue when the 
mating season arrives Mr. Tolerton does not 
know, but the presumption is that in the spring 
the birds will pair off and seek the woods and 
fields for nesting purposes. But should it de¬ 
velop that these birds become thoroughly do¬ 
mesticated, their value to the sportsmen will 
deteriorate, for there would be no more sport 
in hunting them than in going into a chicken 
yard and shooting chickens. 
