. Pleasures of angling with rod and reel for trout and salmon . duty, butkindly consented to overlook the delinquency inview of the frankness of our confession and thecircumstances under which the delinquency oc-curred. CHAPTER XXIV. A BEAR CHASE A GOLD HUNTEB TACKLING FOE SALMON FISHING. I had a glimpse of him, but he shot by meLike a young hound upon a burning scent. — \_Dryden. Knowst thou not any whom corrupting goldWould tempt into a close exploit of death? —■ f Snakspeare. EER, were at one time very abun-dant in this region, but mercilesshunting at all seasons has eitherextinguished or d
. Pleasures of angling with rod and reel for trout and salmon . duty, butkindly consented to overlook the delinquency inview of the frankness of our confession and thecircumstances under which the delinquency oc-curred. CHAPTER XXIV. A BEAR CHASE A GOLD HUNTEB TACKLING FOE SALMON FISHING. I had a glimpse of him, but he shot by meLike a young hound upon a burning scent. — \_Dryden. Knowst thou not any whom corrupting goldWould tempt into a close exploit of death? —■ f Snakspeare. EER, were at one time very abun-dant in this region, but mercilesshunting at all seasons has eitherextinguished or driven them toother feeding-grounds less acces-sible to their inhuman is, however, the Bears seem to have a penchant forthe sheepfolds lying on forest bor-ders. Every farmer considers abear-trap as necessary as a plow, and captures arefrequent. Our first camp was in the neighborhood of sev-eral farms where bruin had marauded , being the most ambitious hunter in theparty, was in constant expectation of an opportn-. 188 PLEASURES OF ANGLING. nity to prove himself as skillful with the rifle aswith the rod. In the pursuit of minor game hehad found a foeman worthy of his steel inJudge Fullerton, whose eye is as keen as his wit,and who bags his game as expertly as he extractstruth from a reluctant witness. The two were wellmatched. Some of their contests for the cham-pionship astonished the natives, and would havesecured them backers for the proposed interna-tional shoot at the Centennial. Both of themhad slain their thousands of every living thing,from chipmunk to deer, but neither had everfleshed his maiden bullet in a bear. Both hopedand waited; but Dun had the advantage in thathe was the owner of the only rifle in camp, andmade it his constant companion. He had begun to despair of a chance to bring abruin to book, when, while quietly enjoying hisafter-dinner pipe, a tiny dug-out was seen glidingrapidly across the river from the farm-h
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