FEB. 17, 1906.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 

Up a Tree. 
WHEN the little party of United States Fish 
Commission explorers, on their return from Kar- 
luk Lake, wére resting their tired limbs in the 
genial company of Captain Larsen, in Uyak Bay, 
they found themselves temporarily storm-bound 
behind a little island which makes a good lee for 
the salmon fleet in westerly winds. The steam- 
ers Haytien Republic, Bertha and Aleut and the 
bark Coryphene were anchored in this snug har- 
ben when Captain Larsen’s Ella Rohlfss dropped 
anchor in their company. Our natives speedily 
paddled themselves away to the barabaras of 
their friends, and we joined a sociable gathering 
in the cabin of Captain Brown, of the Haytien 
Republic. Here Captain Anderson, commanding 
the Bertha, related one of his celebrated bear 
stories in language somewhat as follows: 
An exceptionally brave man of Kadiak was 
noted for his intimate acquaintance with all the 
appliances for killing big game, and particularly 
bear. There was apparently nothing about the 
pattern and caliber of rifles, size, shape and proper 
combination of parts in shells that this man did 
not know to the tips of his fingers. The vulner- 
able points of a bear were open as day to this 
mighty man of the gun. 
A short time ago this bear slayer went forth 
heavily armed to search for his favorite quarry. 
He stepped briskly and confidently into a densely 
wooded glen, through which a salmon stream 
tumbled and sparkled on its way to the sea. A 
sudden noise startled him and, looking for the 
cause, he was astonished, grieved and finally terri- 
fied in beholding a bear which looked totally dif- 
ferent from the one he was gunning for. The 
bear was not in the least disconcerted by the un- 
expected meeting; he welcomed the intruder and 
acted altogether unlike the conventional bear of 
our hunter’s experience. What did the hero do 
then? I blush to say it, but he promptly and un- 
mistakably ran toward a convenient tree, and the 
shameless brute came lumbering after. It was a 
tremendous dilemma, with a bare chance of escape 
from both horns, if the odds in climbing turned 
in favor of the man. The precious rifle fell from 
the nervous grasp of the climber, whose sole ac- 
_tivity (both soles in fact), was concentrated in 
the effort to get up higher. 
The bear had not seen a gun of that pattern 
before and he sat down to look it over, while the 
hero barked his shins in agony overhead. Bruin 
felt comfortable with his new toy, and, not being 
in a hurry, lay down to wait for its agile owner. 
Time passed and it was growing late and the hun- 
ter was becoming cold, hungry and verv red in 
the face. Presently a small boy appeared in the 
distance, and the prisoner was horrified to see him 
coming in the direction of the bear. He shouted 
at the top of his voice, “Boy, run for your life! 
Danger! Bear!’ Apparently the boy did not 
realize the dreadful state of affairs, for he came 
straight on. “Boy! Danger! Go away! Run 
fer your life!’ again shrieked the frantic hunter. 
But the boy heeded him not. Right into the jaws 
of death he marched. He deliberately walked up 
to the bear, took him by the ear and said: “What 
are you doin’ here, you young scamp. Come 
home and let the gent come down outen that 
tree.” Ws ele 18% 
AN honest old Pennsylvania farmer hada tree 
on his premises he wanted cut down, but being 
weak in his back, and having a dull ax, he hit 
upon the following plan. Knowing the passion 
among his neighbors for ’coon hunting, he made 
a ’coon’s foot out of a potatoe, and proceeded 
to imprint numerous tracks in the snow to and 
up the tree. When all ready he informed his 
neighbors that the tree must be filled with 
’coons, pointing to the external evidence made 
with his ’coon’s foot. The bait took, and in a 
short time half a dozen fellows with sharp axes 
were chopping at the base of the tree, each tak- 
ing their regular turn. The party also brought 
dogs and shotguns, and were in ecstacies over 
the anticipated haul of fat ’coons. The tree 
finally fell, but nary ’coon was seen to “drap.”— 
Germantown Telegraph. 













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