TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tuttle,W.C.
TI  - Magpie's night-bear
T2  - Produced from the March 1915 issue of Adventure magazine
AV  - PS 
PY  - 2026///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Short stories
KW  - Western stories
KW  - Bears -- Fiction
N1  - This story may be a precursor to Tuttle's stories about Magpie Simpkins and Ike Harper. A central character is named "Magpie Peters" and the narrator is referred to only as "Ike."; Release date is 2026-04-25; Prepared by volunteers at BookCove (bookcove.net); Originally published; New York, NY: The Ridgway Company, 1915
N2  - Magpie's night-bear by W. C. Tuttle is a humorous Western short story written in the early 20th century. It centers on a comic frontier mishap in Montana, where two prospectors’ quiet night turns chaotic when a bear wanders into their cabin and a phonograph unexpectedly becomes the key to escaping trouble.

Two prospectors, the narrator and Magpie Peters, are mining on “Plenty Stone Creek” and living in a cluttered cabin prized for its phonograph. In the moonlit night a huge bear slips in, wrecks the stove and cupboard, gets tangled in flour, bedclothes, and a high chair, and drags the protesting Magpie around the room. As the bear seems ready to turn dangerous, it accidentally starts the phonograph, which blares a bugle and marching orders; the bear, trained to drill, shoulders Magpie’s rifle and marches off into the timber. Next day a newspaper notice reveals a lost trained black bear named Gladys “versed in the manual of arms,” confirming the absurdity of the night. The partners briefly consider the reward, but Magpie refuses to pursue a bear that might also be a sharpshooter. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78551
ER  -