Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1892 — New England Hour Hunting. [ARTICLE]

New England Hour Hunting.

“Charles Smith, the Jackson bear hunter,” said a trapper, “followed a track through the snow some winters ago and llnally it disappeared In a ledge. He was bound not to give It up that way so he made him a torch, and taking it in one hand and his single-shot rifle in the other, he entered the den. He wasn’t,, long In spotting a pair of eyes in advance of him, and he fired. Retreating until he was satisfied the bear must be dead he i’.gain entered, but there the eyes were, apparently as before. Again he fired and when he next entered the cave he found that he had killed two bears, and both big ones. The most bear I ever got in one day was when I went to visit one of my traps and found an old sne bear in tne trap and two cubs sleeping by her side. In less than three minutes I had three dead bears, and if those two cubs, killed cold, weren’t juicy eating I’ll miss my guess. I got $54 out of that morning’s work. You see it makes quite a difference in the profits of bear hunting whether we kill our game in New Hampshire or Maine. Here the-bounty is only $5, while over the line it is $lO. So, unlike Sawtelle, we are anxious to prove that we do our killing in New Hampshire. For instance, if I trap a bear in Maine, I try to get him across the line before knocking him in the head. One I loaded into a cart and drove up into the dooryard of one of the selectmen of a neighboring town just across the border, and there dispatched my bear and called for and received my order, making $5 in a few hours by so doing.”—Lewiston (Me.) Journal.