The Boyhood of an Inventor - Early Television Foundation

tracks of the sheep in the
paths on the farm back home.
The party, scattering soon
after noon, left the boy alone
in this wilderness of burnedover
terrain, and being only
an amateur "big-game"
hunter, he early turned his
steps toward the descending
sun so as to reach the coast
before the dark should come
down. On his way in he
heard the barking of dogs
ahead of him. Following
the sound of their baying
he came out into a
Cub bear
glade,
in the middle of which he saw
a burned-off stump, perhaps twenty feet tall, on the
top of which perched a young black bear languidly
watching the dogs harmlessly yelping below. It was an
easy shot, but as there was no way to get the meat in
to camp, and having no heart for killing just for the
sake of killing, the boy continued his journey, to the
evident disgust of the dogs, for their noise soon ceased,
with a few parting remarks to the bear that next time
they treed him he wouldn't get off so easily.
Next morn
ing the tide
was unusually
low, so, rolling
up his trous
ers, the boy
took an ax
and cutting
into the soft
sandstone
cliffs below
mid-tide, as he
had been in
structed, he
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A papoose carrier