. Our big game; a book for sportsmen and nature lovers . tsman. One of his bears weighed 410 pounds. President Roosevelt not long ago was invited to abear hunt in Mississippi, and Mr. Denison, one of thespecial correspondents accompanying the Presidentsparty, wrote a long and amusing account of the the President returned withouthavingburneda grain of powder, He got three bears, they will tellyou in Sharkey County, the reporter says, so thatat the outset it is necessary to appreciate fully that theMississippi bear hunt proper is a communal and not anindividual sport, and that the
. Our big game; a book for sportsmen and nature lovers . tsman. One of his bears weighed 410 pounds. President Roosevelt not long ago was invited to abear hunt in Mississippi, and Mr. Denison, one of thespecial correspondents accompanying the Presidentsparty, wrote a long and amusing account of the the President returned withouthavingburneda grain of powder, He got three bears, they will tellyou in Sharkey County, the reporter says, so thatat the outset it is necessary to appreciate fully that theMississippi bear hunt proper is a communal and not anindividual sport, and that the man for whom the huntis organized is credited with all the killing done by hiscompany and the pack. It was something of a blow tothe sense of Southern hospitality—which is no strongeranywhere than in Sharkey County—to find that thePresident had a vigorous desire to kill a bear was even more of a blow to find, after this prejudiceof the distinguished guest had been discovered, and abear had been captured, at least half alive, to await his. o & c T3C o -> ^. p. oU THE BLACK BEAR 291 pleasure, that he refused with something very like scornto put the finishing bullet into it. Mr. Denison thus describes the ground where thehunt took place: Leaving the plantations, the roadwound through four miles of open forest, carpeted witha brier tangle, knee high, which made travel anywhereout of the trodden trail almost impossible. Here allthe trunks were much darker in color, for fifteen feetfrom the ground, than they were above, showing theeffect of the annual flood, which about Smedes is re-ferred to only as the Yazoo back water. Explainingthe marks on the trees, Jim, the guide, waxed eloquentin describing the prowess of a Mr. Hamilton, who usedto hunt bears through these woods in boats in theback-water season. Then came Coon Bayou, a four-mile-long mudgully, where the flood water caught and lay stagnantthrough all the summer and fall, attracting bear anddeer and raccoons.
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