Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 176, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1912 — BRUIN OBTAINS HIS SUPPER [ARTICLE]

BRUIN OBTAINS HIS SUPPER

Hunter Describes the Clever Work of a Hungry Bear In Catching a Salmon. One year, the berries being destroyed, many bears visited the river for fish. I was walking up the river shore one evening about sunset watching for a deer. Rounding a bend I saw, perched upon a flat rock some few feet from the shore, a large black bear. I could not tell at first what he was doing. He was stooping down with one paw In the water waving it gently to and fro. I watched closely and saw, just beyond his reach, a large male salmon, so nearly dead that he could not swim. The bear was using his paw to create an-eddy which would draw the fish within his grasp. Slowly the salmon drifted toward the rock. It was amusing to watch how carefully the bear moved his paw so as not to frighten his prey. At last the fish came within reach, Bruin reached over, gave It a quick slap, seized It In his jaws and leaped ashore. The whole performance tickled me so that I let him go off, the salmon dangling in his mouth, without even taking a shot at "Oharlos -Btuart-Moody. in the Outing Magazine.