Hunting The Fear Bear

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Hunting The Fear Bear
Back when I was 12, my best friend Shane and I spent most of our summerweekends camping in the thick woods behind my family's farm house. We'dpitch our tent next to the fishing pond and would spend the weekend in thegreat outdoors.While we imagined we were living off the fat of the land, we were reallyliving off the larder of my father: Once or twice a day we'd go to thehouse, a mere quarter mile away, share a meal with my family, and stock upon chips, snacks and thermosfuls of sweet iced-tea. On Sunday mornings wewould breakfast at the house for Sunday was the day that my fatherventured into the kitchen to make a batch of his famous (at least amongthe Allen clan) biscuits-and-sausage-gravy.It was one of these Sunday mornings that the great bear hunting incidenttook place.We woke early one morning and set upon the task of fishing. If we werelucky we could catch a few fish before going on up to the house forbreakfast. It was a peaceful day and we were enjoying the silence until wewere disturbed by the clamor of something moving in the woods. (bear hunting)

Quiet atfirst but increasingly louder, the raucous noise quickly proved to benothing than my younger sister, all of seven, traipsing loudly down thetrail from the house. "Keep it down, will you, we're fishing!" I yelled."Fine," she said, sticking her tongue out at the two of us. "Then I won'ttell you that Dad said breakfast is ready." And she turned and trompedback up the trail louder than before.As soon as she was gone, Shane and I eagerly started winding our reels in.Both our stomach's were growling at the thought of the meal to come. Justas we we're setting our poles next to the tent, we heard a scream that wasobviously Michelle. Shane and I ran down the path, towards the noise,going just a short distance before seeing my sister who was tearing backdown the path towards us."What's the matter?" Shane asked, putting his arm around her shoulder.

Hereyes were wide and wet with tears and she was shaking