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craft* aim and hlaztd away with such pre cision that old Bruin came down on the double quick and a way he went With h >th HV JOHN 11. C.RIFHX d< gs at his heels. He did ni go iar Imw*- ever. until they brought him' up again, • « The first I »ear that Trailer cvcrMreui this time in a dead fir. I took the gun was on (irifLn creak mar the «Id home which Miller seemed to l>e willing to give ranch. I was living on the placethen a- up and went over to the tiee; '1 he bear luiut one hundred and fiftv • • vards north of was up about 80 or 10 feet and as there the old farm /muse, where *mv sister was were no limbs to bother 1 could see him living at the time. One night- in the plainly, t*u 1 pulled away without stop month <>f June ’KJ I had just g»ne to bed, ping to study over consequences. At rhe when my sister cany* running down and crack of the gun he fell over backwards cille I to- mo t > get up as she th night and down he came, landing in the brush a bear had caught a hog un above the ¡»clow. The dogs attacked him furiously house, as she beard onesqueallng. I hur but there was no fight left in the bear as ried out as quickly as possible, grabbed my the bullet had passed through the heart gun and ran up to the house wm*rel»«>tn killing him so dead that he never knew (logs, Trailer, then a young dog a little what hurt him. We dressed him and over a year old. and 1 Jon. a cur that had hung him up, then went back to the lieen in one bear fight and got the worst house and to bed but, a? may In imag- of it, were lying; but neither had heard ilied, I was too excited to sleep mucl;. now — sure that i I had a ....... bear dog, ............. nor scented the bear on account of be’ng ' ; I was on the opposite Bide of the house from something 1 had wanted for years. In where he Was.1 1 called them.out at once J this I was not mistaken as the career of and as soon they got around to the other ! Trailer has proved him to be one of the Bide thev • scented the bear and awav • thev • best hear dogs ever known in this or any went; the bear bad a I readv “racked" out. other country. An account of the bear Neither dog barked rtopmade any noise hunts in which he was engaged would . until they got to the place where tlie bear make a good sized book; and if you wish had lx*en, w hen Trailer imm» diatelv • took it and think it would interest your read up the track and started after him yelp ers I wrll give at some future time an ac ing at every jump, nut old Lion; remem count of other bear fights that Trailer and bering his former experience, stopped and 1 have’ ‘enjoyed’’ together- particularly the last, or one-hand red and cujhtk bear commenced to bark, afraid to go farther. 1 broke and ran as fast as 1 could and scrape in which the poor old fellow par • , as soon as I got near enough shouted at ticipated. . « ■ - -- him and urged him to go. W hen he found out I was coining he racked out, Place your subscriptions with but Trailer had already got at least a half- the Ashland N»*wr Stand for the various mile the start of him and was just going pap< :s ami magazines which \ou dtsiie over the hill out of hearing. \l waited to take and w ill save cost of nmncv- then until I heard the old dog "across'(he order and postage. hill when I turned down t*»wards the • • • ertek to the wagon road as I supposed The Rev. Robert Sherrill, a“Soul-idtep- tn.it the I car would probably tree some cr’ clergyman, has been preaching or where near the creek. I hftd not gone f ir h-cturing in the U. M. L. 1 ¡all. of course when 1 was joined by John S. Miller, an with the object of getting | e- ple to think old I »car hunter, who was cool as a cu ing his way. Baptists. Meth« diets. I)unk- cumber while 1 was all excitement. ards,. Seventh-day Adventists, Seventh- We did not go far until we heard Imtli day Baptists, AgnosticTand Sj ¡ritualists, dogs barking furiously and knew by the each have quite ft number of adherents in bark that Bruin was treed. Wequi< ki ll our community, but as competition is the ed our steps then, Miller all the time great stimulant in every department of caut’oning me to go slow, as, if we made' human endeavor, we should not pbject to ‘much racket the bear might hear Us and a ‘right smart sprir.kimg’of Soul-sleep- come down. We soon reached the tree ers. Camphellites. Presbyterians, Viuted and, sure enough, then* he was, a hirge Brethren, Christian Scientists, Sweden- br<»wn Lear < linking to the side < f a big Im.glans, Lutherans. Occultists, I’nitari- pirn*. It W'JIS |X»W about Hl «>’« hick blit ans. Episcopalians, Catholic s, et< tc, mf the star- were shining brightly and we / / b • 1l( lit. could plainlv wee the I »ear. <>f course I Don’t forget that E. M. Drativaul is the want’s! to shoot ami so did Miller, but finally I gave my gun over to him as he 'Lalent sin cm al ♦ r, and does bls wt i k lip I w : ib an old I »car hunter. He took dclib- in good shape. f*»r moderate prices. TRAILER’S JTRST BEAR. I . t I BKiMM»- -W • tl *___ - * I