Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1859 — Great Bear Fight Between one Old Bear, Three Cubs, Two Little Boys and a Dog. [ARTICLE]

Great Bear Fight Between one Old Bear, Three Cubs, Two Little Boy s and a Dog.

A subscriber writing to us from North Twin Dam, June 3, thus tells o a bear fight that took place on the farm of Col. Thomas fowler, on the 30th: “One o. the boys was sent to drive the cows home, which were about one hundred rods from the house, at the edge of the woods, where he saw an old bear and her two cubs; he hallooed to his elder brother, some fourteen years of age, to come to him with a pistol; he brought out one of Ramsdell’s ten inch pistols, as the other had a gun loaded with shot only. John, for that was his name, fired the pistol at the bear’s head, and then went up a tree where her cubs were. The old bear turned to come down and give battle; the boys then fired again, and the hear came down and took for the boys. John took the gun. from the other buy and in'tiled her over the head until he bent, it badly, and the dog made such inroads upon her right flank at the same time that she was forced to give battle to him—the ff.jg—vhich e:i lble 1 t le b >vs to put an end to tier. They then killed two cubs, and wjent home with <ine live one to their incthylfieing the only person in the house.) with much honor of victory as Gen. Scott or Taylor i i the Mexican war.— Piscutaguis (J Me.') Observer.