. Prairie and forest [microform] : a description of the game of North America, with personal adventures in their pursuit. Hunting; Fishing; Chasse; Pêche sportive. A DISAPPOINTMENT. 317 Just as I was thinking of closing up for the night, my companion shouted to me that there >vas a bear in the water. On looking up stream, sure enough Bruin was in sight, stemming the current and boldly pushing for this side. With hasty impulse I laid my rod down to grasp my rifle, but, alas ! my attendant, fatigued with carrying it, and seeing small prospect of its being required, had left it leaning against
. Prairie and forest [microform] : a description of the game of North America, with personal adventures in their pursuit. Hunting; Fishing; Chasse; Pêche sportive. A DISAPPOINTMENT. 317 Just as I was thinking of closing up for the night, my companion shouted to me that there >vas a bear in the water. On looking up stream, sure enough Bruin was in sight, stemming the current and boldly pushing for this side. With hasty impulse I laid my rod down to grasp my rifle, but, alas ! my attendant, fatigued with carrying it, and seeing small prospect of its being required, had left it leaning against a rock some distance off. You may well imagine my disappointment, for when the bear l^^^t the wa- ter he was not over twenty-five yards above my position. This animal, judging from his size, must have been quite four hundred pounds—a size much greater than it general- ly attains in the north-west. Until he had firmly gained his footing he had not observed us, and the ludicrousness of his alarm and astonishment when he became aware of our vicinity was laughable in the extreme. Off he went with a rush into the brush, making dry and withered limbs crash before him. As the constant and severe attention of the flies put fish- ing out of the question, and I had become surfeited with tobacco from the number of cigars I had consumed, under the fallacy that the smoke would deprive me of their com- pany, I was compelled, as a last resource, to start on a tour of inspection, at the same time hoping that ray exertions would be rewarded with the discovery of some quadruped or bird with which I had been previously unacquainted. On entering the scrub-bush the mosquitoes became more numerous, and I have little hesitation in saying that the blood-suckers of Arkansas and Mississippi, which bear the same name, are far from proficients when you com'pare tliem with those of Labrador. After half an hour's rougrh scrambling through the morass, I succeeded in gaining more open ground. Rising towar
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