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     A hear if hungry and savage enough, would attack and kill 
     
     anything in its path. A story has been told of a large bull be— 
     
     longing to Neil Stewart, walking leisurely home from his feeding 
     
     place one evening, when a bear leaped on him from behind a tree. 
     
     The bull ga110ped with the monster on his back for two or three 
     
     hundred yards and when going down a steep hill back of Captain 
     
     James Stewart's property, the bull fell. This gave the bear a 
     
     chance to hold him down and kill him. One could see from the 
     
     bull's tracks when the bear caught him and also where the bear 
     
     was sticking his claws in the trees trying to hold the bull but 
     
     couldn't until he fell. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Another story has been told of two cows that were attacked 
     
     and killed by a bear, within five yards of each other. The 
     
     reason assigned for these cows being attacked so near each other 
     
    
   
   
    
     is that when one was caught by the bear, it bellowed and the other 
     
     one came to rescue it. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Sometimes a trap was set for a bear. 
     
    
   
   
    
     A pen was built with an opening large enough for the bear 
     
     to go through. Bait was placed inside with a string attached 
     
     from it to the trigger of a gun set in direct line with the 
     
     opening. 
     
    
   
   
    
     When the bear entered and began to eat the bait, he caused 
     
     the gun to discharge, and kill him. 
     
    
   
   
    
     One day a farmer's pig wandered into the pen and met the 
     
     same fate as bruin.