The man, Mr. Edmund Ansty, a shopkeeper, was returning home from the Woodbery-Hil Fair on "a good Horse," when he was overtaken "by a dark night" about a dozen miles from his home. However, Mr. Edmund Ansty resolved to continue until he reached his house, when suddenly, "his Horse rushed very violently with him against one side of the Bank," all the while "snorting and trembling very much," so that he could not control the horse. They went "nearer to the Bushes," and Mr. Edmund Ansty heard "the Hedges crack with a dismal noise." He perceived the, in front of him, "a large Circle of a duskish light, about the bigness of a very large Wheel, and in it he perfectly saw the proportion of a huge Bear, as if it had been by day-light." This apparition (Anonymous 173) passed by him, looking "gashfully at him, shewing a pair of very large flaming Eyes." The horse then "sprung into the road," and galloped home so quickly, that there was no way to "rein him in," and Mr. Edmund Ansty "had much ado to keep the Saddle."(199-201)