In the land of the bora; or, Camp life and sport in Dalmatia and the Herzegovina 1894-5-6 . e furlongs, could notresist the temptation to a game of long bowls,whereby he did no good, and risked doing a greatdeal of harm.) Immediately after, I saw a bear coming at ahand canter up the sheep-track I have , this path led directly to No. 4 post; andperhaps, strictly speaking, I should have left theshot to him. Be that as it may, the fact remainsthat as Bruin passed a clear space eighty yardsaway, just so that I could comfortably take a restoff my tree, I could not resist taking him jus
In the land of the bora; or, Camp life and sport in Dalmatia and the Herzegovina 1894-5-6 . e furlongs, could notresist the temptation to a game of long bowls,whereby he did no good, and risked doing a greatdeal of harm.) Immediately after, I saw a bear coming at ahand canter up the sheep-track I have , this path led directly to No. 4 post; andperhaps, strictly speaking, I should have left theshot to him. Be that as it may, the fact remainsthat as Bruin passed a clear space eighty yardsaway, just so that I could comfortably take a restoff my tree, I could not resist taking him justforward of the shoulder. His foreleg gave at once,and he rolled over. With something between agrowl and a moan, he recovered his legs; and ashe did so I fired the other barrel at the same spot;and several other shots rang out. During therest of the beat I heard him at intervals, butimagined it to be merely a case of convulsivestruggles among the brushwood. The beat ended in silence, and Miller and Iwith a forester entered the brush to search forBrer Bar. Imagine my surprise when he got. IN THE LAND OF THE BORA. 229 up and shambled slowly off, his right side beingtowards us this time. Two or three shots onlyhad the effect of inakiug him turn half viciouslyon the nearest of his persecutors. Then he wTenton a little further and disappeared. Advancingcautiously, we found him lying at the bottom ofa natural pit some twenty feet deep, where theforester, after two or three shots, despatched himwith one in the ear. When the beaters came, wehauled him out. He had altogether eight bulletmarks on him, of which I had little hesitation inclaiming two large round ones on the hinder partof the left shoulder-blade as those of my shot-and-ball gun. None of the others except the last werewell placed, but there was one through the backwhich had glanced off a rib. Consequently I wasrather surprised when the general claimed firstblood. It seems he had fired simultaneously withmyself, and very poss
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