A MOTHER'S COURAGE. After a Fearful Struggle She Kills a Savage Bear.
Everyone is familiar with the story of the mother whose child had been carried off by an eagle, and who, to rescue hhre r child, climbed alone to the eyrie from which the boldest mountaineer shrank back appalled. This stock illustration of the force of the maternal instinct is now capped by a bear story from Savoy. A bear having killed a shepherd boy, the villagers organised a hunt for the animal. The mother, armed with a gun, insisted upon accompanying the party. Tbey came back. She did* not. Next day the poor woman was found lying in a secluded spot, her dress in rags, her arms crushed, and her faco covered with blood. At her side was a huge bear quite dead, its head smashed by a discharge from the gun which she had taken with her. The hope is entertained that she may eventually recover, but the woman has not yet been able to give an account of her struggle with the bear which had killed her child, which must have been terrific. When we get the story of that) straggle it will make the grand tour of all the Sunday-school books in the whole Eng-glish-speaking world.
" I am going to buy alight coat to match the trousers," he remarked to his wife the other day, "and a light pair of gloves to match the coat, and a light soft hat to match—" " Your head, I suppose," interrupted the spouse, gently, and the household knew no harmony that day. " I wish I could afford to have the house painted thfe spring," said Mr Chippenberry, as he stood out in the front yard nftov supper and looked over his domicile. "Can't you get it lithographed?'' suggested Mrs Ohippenbeny. "Lithographs are so much cheaper than real painting, you know." Proctor, the astronomer, says he has discovered a couple of new suns. If he can only invent some method of preventing the suns from discovering us we can manage to get along with old Sol, at least during thesummer season.
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 232, 10 December 1887, Page 12
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