Item - Saved by a Bear

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Online Full Text:	Northern Illinois University
Series:	Beadle's Weekly — v. 2 no. 102 — page 8
Subject / Tag:	Sketch
Part of:	Beadle's Weekly, v. II, n. 102, October 25, 1884 (Issue)
Author:	Ringwood, Captain (pseudonym used by Ringwood, Ralph)
Date:	October 25, 1884
First Sentence:	For several mornings, just after daybreak, two hunters, who had located their cabin on the banks of Stewart's Creek, in the heart of the Kentucky wilderness, were aroused by the shrill scream of a panther, seemingly close by.
Last Sentence:	Humphries was, on the whole, well satisfied, and for many years boasted that he was probably the only man in the wilderness whose life had been saved by a bear.