Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1883 — A Bear’s Paw in Hot Beans. [ARTICLE]

A Bear’s Paw in Hot Beans.

I was pleased with an anecdote about a party of young men who once went hunting up a California ravine. At night they sat around their fire watching the boiling of a mess of beans, when a bear suddenly joined the circle, whipped the cover of the pot, and, without so much as by your leave, thrust his paw into the seething supper. Bearing with pain and astonishment, he as quickly drew it out again, and throwing the hot beans into the young men’s faces, lumbered off growling into the darkness. What the young men did for supper I never heard.— Cor. New York Tribune. • ...., ■ ... ,—.—