Stories tagged bear

To the Bear in a Neighbor’s Tree

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In the night, a several-hundred-pound Black Bear scaled our neighbor’s back fence, bounded down the gravel footpath between our houses and, confused by the people and lights, followed his instincts up a large pine tree across the street...

Estoppel Pays For The Souls He Threw Over

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as if holding onto a brick house wife, her reasons for remaining cold, aloof notwithstanding...

The Stuff of Superstition

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When the first newborn went missing from the Hill County Hospital, many thought that an estranged father had run away with it across state lines, but when the second newborn went missing from the same hospital, the deputy sheriff called an emergency press

This Story Will Break Your Heart

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The first years of her life she had been owned by a bear hunter and trained to hunt bear, a terrible turn of luck for her.