. The Big game of North America [microform] : its habits, habitat, haunts, and characteristics : how, when, and where to hunt it. Hunting; Hunting; Big game hunting; Big game hunting; Chasse; Chasse; Chasse au gros gibier; Chasse au gros gibier. 1 ! TIIK ( !. •i-if) h :i u-<l 1)111 ly. 'Ive itiy lese g\i or the it; lu- robe, Jiiul lay down between two iiiiu'-trees, in a dark liol- low, til'teen feet or so to the windward of tlie bait, and arraiij5^ed a light cord round the carcass in such a way, at about three feet from the ground, that if 1 should fall asleep, and while 1 was
. The Big game of North America [microform] : its habits, habitat, haunts, and characteristics : how, when, and where to hunt it. Hunting; Hunting; Big game hunting; Big game hunting; Chasse; Chasse; Chasse au gros gibier; Chasse au gros gibier. 1 ! TIIK ( !. •i-if) h :i u-<l 1)111 ly. 'Ive itiy lese g\i or the it; lu- robe, Jiiul lay down between two iiiiu'-trees, in a dark liol- low, til'teen feet or so to the windward of tlie bait, and arraiij5^ed a light cord round the carcass in such a way, at about three feet from the ground, that if 1 should fall asleep, and while 1 was sleeping the Bear came, his pressure on the string would awaken me by pulling at my wrist. About two hours after sundown, I heard the stealthy ai)proach of a large animal in the underbrush; but it was so pitch-chirk that, though the noise did not seem more than twenty feet away, I could see absolutely nothing; and the Bear must have smelt me, for he went olY. Toward morn- ing I fell asleep, and must have slei)t about an hour, when sudde" I felt something soft press on my head. For a monu 'as badly scared, as I thought the Bear had mis- taken me for the bait, and had stepped bodily on top of me. In my half-awake condition, 1 had mistaken a big scpiirrel—that, falling olf I he trees hit me full in the face—for the game I was after. After the sun was uji, I went back to camp, hungry enough, and rather chilled. Next tUiy 1 iletermined to explore a distant gulch that none of our i)arty had yet visited, and taking one of the men and a couple of horses with me, with food for two days, we started oil'. When we made camp, we were about eighteen miles from our party, and found ourselves in a splendid valley, in which there was considerable P^lk-sign. All that day and the next we saw a good deal of fresh Elk- sign, and some Bear-sign, but saw no game. Anyone who has hunted in the mountains will remember how many dis- appointments of this kind he has had. You sometimes find trac
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