Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

Mr. G. Decker, of Shawangunk, a young man of spirit and resolution, while on a bear hunt not long since, in the Shawangunk mountains, discovered a large fierce looking black bear up about twenty feet in a large pin oak tree. Mr. D. was not discovered by the bear until he was within gun shot, when he leveled his never failing piece and wounded the monster in his foreleg. The bear sprang from the tree and pursued Mr. D. and before he had time to reload, he was compelled to draw his bowie knife, with which, after a desperate conflict, and with the assistance of a fierce bloodhound, he succeeded in dispatching the monster.-We are happy to say that Mr. D. came off uninjured.-Ulster Rep.