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tooth of the 
stolen the moccasins. I had to walk 
eight miles in my stocking feet to get 
another pair. Before starting, I set 
the trap and left it, but the bear never 
came back. Perhaps the moccasins 
killed him. 
One winter I was passing a lumber 
camp where a horse had died and had 
been hauled out behind the stable. I 
saw where a bear had dragged it out 
into the road, nearly a hundred yards 
up a hill and then dragged it off into 
the woods and left it. The horse 
weighed about thirteen or fourteen 
hundred pounds, I should judge. 
Another time a moose travelling up 
a lake and then up the brook running 
into it had broken through the ice. 
The snow being four or five feet deep 
on each bank, he was unable to get 
out and had died there. Later I went 
there to set an otter trap and found 
there had been a bear around and had 
hauled the moose out upon the bank 
some ten or fifteen feet from the wa- 
ter. It would have taken six men with 
ropes to do it. 
I once set a trap near a lumber 
camp and on going back to look at it, 
I found a bear had got into it; but 
I could find neither bear nor trap. 
The door yard was torn up as far as 
the bank of a large brook. I had been 
up and down the bank several times, 
but could find no trace of where the 
bear had crossed. Just above the 
camp a large tree had fallen across 
the brook with the top on the oppo- 
site side and raised about ten feet 
from the ground. I decided to go over 
and see if there were any signs of 
where the bear had crossed. I found 
him, trap and all, just under the top 
of the tree. The clog to the trap 
chain weighed about sixty pounds. 
He had evidently dragged it to the 
foot of the tree, then he must have 
taken the trap and clog up in his arms 
and carried them across the tree; for 
there was no sign of where either clog 
or trap had touched the tree. Arriv- 
ing on the other side he had jumped 
the ten feet to the ground and dropped. 
He had been caught by the nose, one 
trap going through close 
and tearing his nose al- 
eyes. He was probably 
trap and pressed a little 
too hard. I was short of bait when I 
set the trap and had put molasses in 
my frying pan after lunch, then wiped 
out the grease and molasses with moss 
and put it behind the trap. No doubt 
in doing so I had dropped some on 
the trap. 
to his teeth 
most to his 
smelling the 
Once a bear came to one of my hunt- 
ing camps and broke a hole in the 
roof. The camp door was open, but 
whether it was open before he broke 
the hole in the roof or whether he 
opened it, I do not know. He had evi- 
dently gone in and out of the hole sev- 
It will identify you, 
eral times, then he took all the bed- 
ding and piled it under the hole. He 
took a bag of flour out and set it in 
the door yard without breaking it 
open. He destroyed practically every- 
thing in the camp and carried off a 
two-gallon jug half ful! of molasses. 
I hunted everywhere for the jug, hop- 
ing he would Le unable to get the cork 
out and I might be able to save it. I 
even set a trap for him but as the bear 
hunting was about done, I failed to 
catch him. Upon returning in Sep- 
tember the next fall, I found the mo- 
lasses jug in the middle of the door 
yard, cork and molasses gone. 
The summer I ‘shot so many bears 
on the wing, a bear got into another 
camp where there was a table thirty 
feet long, with three hanging lamps 
above it. He took one of the lamps 
out in the yard, removed the chimney 
without breaking it, turned out the oil 
and then rolled in it. Next he broke 
open a barrel of coal tar used for 
marking the ends of logs, and rolled 
in that. Then he got up and walked 
the length of the table and sitting 
down he looked behind to survey his. 
tracks. 
One spring while hunting, I met an- 
other bear hunter who told me of an 
adventure he had with a bear, which 
no doubt was true. He was lying in 
his camp when he heard something 
coming down the smoke hole. Uncov- 
ering his head, he looked up and saw 
a bear coming down backwards. The 
fire was very low, only embers and 
ashes. Just about the time he looked, 
the bear dropped his hind feet in the 
coals. He let out one tremendous 
snort and went up the smoke hole 
faster than he came down. Carson 
said the bear might have stopped in 
the United States, but he was quite 
sure he never stopped in Canada. 
Another adventure I had with a 
bear happened while on a fishing trip 
with the late Mr. Irland. We had 
caught five or six little salmon and 
had run a piece of cod line through 
their gills and hung them up to our 
tent pole over our feet. A bear delib- 
erately walked in in the night, broke 
the line and let the fish fall on Mr. 
Irland. It woke him up and he de- 
manded an explanation. Bruin an- 
swered no questions but left in a 
hurry. 
A number of years ago when the 
Imperial Troops were here in Fred- 
ericton, they had a pet bear which 
eventually grew to great size. It 
was very good-natured and they could 
play and romp with it as much as 
they liked. They kept it chained to 
a big post in the barracks square. 
Lumbermen used to amuse _ them- 
selves by giving him bottles of beer 
and watching him open them, which 
he could do as well as a man with a 
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