Draper Manuscripts 18 S 248
Once Yelverton Peyton and Mike Stoner were in the woods together and came across a bear tree. Stoner said he would climb up an adjoining tree and rout the bear out, when he desired Peyton be in readiness to shoot it. Peyton remonstrated, but Stoner never faltered–clambered up the adjoining tree and out on a limb so as to reach the tree at a large aperture where the bear had ingress and egress, and then with his tomahawk pounded sharply on the tree and hollowed out ‘who keeps de house?’ A stirring was heard within when Peyton again begged Stoner to desist and come down quickly. Stoner renewed the pounding–soon the bear appeared, first thrusting his head out of the hole, looking around and reconnoitering and then made a dash for the limb on which Stoner sat. As the bear got near enough he cooly chopped off the toes of his fore paws and the bear in pain tumbled to the ground, where the dogs attacked him and soon Peyton shot him.
Sept 10th 1863
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