. 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. if I <«^ wiernr htriiitt'd. two or three hundred yards below. On hits way upward, a big (trizzly had been joined by a relaiivf> or aCTjuaintanee (history will never say which), and, as ill luck would h;n>' it, they both came siuhh'idy on the lioises, hiddAH and securely ti 'd in a little hollow. From where 1 sat I r*>uli\ see notliing; bnt
. 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. if I <«^ wiernr htriiitt'd. two or three hundred yards below. On hits way upward, a big (trizzly had been joined by a relaiivf> or aCTjuaintanee (history will never say which), and, as ill luck would h;n>' it, they both came siuhh'idy on the lioises, hiddAH and securely ti 'd in a little hollow. From where 1 sat I r*>uli\ see notliing; bnt running (h)wn a few yards, I caniK- in sight of two sturdy fellows surveying our plungin;: majs^. as for one moment they evidently held a hurrit^d c/«Ilf^^ltation. The conclusion they arrived at was that they wereonit for venison, not for horse-tiesh, espechdly when theiv wa^ more than a suspicion of a dangerous smell around: in htifri. fht-y struck our trsiil, and scented the saddle, and so in an instant were olf. Of course, we had settled on a kimA toward which the wind blew from the ravine (Frank wa.^ a quarter of a mile away, on the other side of the inairiei. f«>r FVars almost always come uj) at evening from the *siblH. There is no better position than with an elix>w on thither knee; you can shoot fast and straight, and the iiKmtio>n is high enongh to carry your head and rifle alx>re smiall inequalities of the ground. I let drive, and niisw^*!—*b'>t too far ahi'ad, I fancy. Always shoot too fai' ah^-'ji'L rather than too far behind. Nine times out of ten, a ballet plumped in front of running game will halt it for a niioment; and so now it turned out. The leader reare<i U]i for an instant, and the instant's pause was fatal. The uex! iirtilet took him fair in the center of the chest. He had ja*t tiinje- to give his solicit- ous companion a wipe with his i*aw, that would have come near wiping out a strong man, wjien h^ n)Ilf-d ov^r. Bear No. 2 concluded
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