Being asked if he was not frightened, he replied, "Deed I think
the bear was 'maist frightened o' the twa', for he just stood up on his
twa hind legs, and glowered at me for a wee while till I waved the torch
light toward him, when he gi' an awfu' snort, and ran into the woods as
fast's ever he was able, an' I cam awa' hame no a bit the war, an' I
think I'll never be sae' muckle feared about bears again." But these
early settlers certainly found these animals very troublesome from their
frequent depredations upon their fields of grain, and they often spent a
large portion of the night watching for them, prepared to give them
battle, but it was not often they saw one on these occasions, for these
animals are very cunning, and seem at once to know when they are
watched. It sometimes also happened that during the early period of this
settlement people lost their way in the bush while going from one house
to another. A woman once set out to go to the house of a neighbour who
lived about a mile distant. Supposing herself on the right path she
walked onward, till thinking the way rather long she stopped and gazed
earnestly around her, and became terrified as she noticed that the trees
and rocks, and every other surrounding object had a strange unfamiliar
look; and she knew at once that she had taken a wrong path.
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