Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . d when they surrenderedto General Putnam, the clod-hopper sarcastically remarked, Gentle-men, I have only kept my word. I told you I would call, and payyou for your kindness and condescension. JOHN MINTERS FEARFUL ENCOUNTER WITH A BEAR. Some fifteen or twenty years ago, there lived in the state of Ohioa man by the name of John Minter. In his younger days he hadbeen a great hunter, spending most of his time in the woods in pur-suit of
Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . d when they surrenderedto General Putnam, the clod-hopper sarcastically remarked, Gentle-men, I have only kept my word. I told you I would call, and payyou for your kindness and condescension. JOHN MINTERS FEARFUL ENCOUNTER WITH A BEAR. Some fifteen or twenty years ago, there lived in the state of Ohioa man by the name of John Minter. In his younger days he hadbeen a great hunter, spending most of his time in the woods in pur-suit of game, and such was his proficiency with the rifle, that heseldom failed in bringing down the swift-footed deer, or the fleetestwinged denizen of the air. He was celebrated for a terrible fightwhich he had on one occasion with a bear, in which he came so JOHN MINTERS fearful ENCOUNTER WITH A BEAR. 155 near losing his life, that his passion for hunting was changed todisgust, and giving up the use of the rifle, he turned his attention toagriculture. The circumstances of that fight, are as follows :— He had been out one day, as usual,with his rifle, in pur-. DREW HIS LONG KEEN KNIFE AND PREPARED FOR FATAL ENCOUNTERWHICH HE KNEW MLST ENSUE. suit of a flock of turkeys, but had been unsuccessful, and was return-ing home in a surly mood, when he came, rather unexpectedly, upona large black bear, who seemed disposed to dispute his as thought, his piece was at his shoulder, and the bulletwhizzed through the air, striking the bear full in the breast, and hefell to the ground—as Minter supposed—dead. Carefully reloadinghis rifle, not to throw away a chance, he approached the bear, andpoked his nose with the muzzle, to see if any spark of life was only playing possum, as it seems, for with far moreagility than could be anticipated of a beast who had a rifle ballthrough his body, he reared upon his hind feet and made at thehunter. M
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