. On the headwaters of Peace River : a narrative of a thousand-mile canoe trip to a little-known range of the Canadian Rockies . Reproduced from a photograph by M. B. Huston. HUSTOX PARTY OX WAY UP He was a fixe, fat. black bear. OPPORTUNE MEETING WITH A BEAR 223 that if he made off in the opposite direction he mightnot get away. Presently, however, above and to theright, I saw a spot where the grass was bent down as ifby some animal dragging over it, and both grass andearth were copiously sprinkled with frothy red blood—the sure sign of a lung shot. Following this trail a fewyards
. On the headwaters of Peace River : a narrative of a thousand-mile canoe trip to a little-known range of the Canadian Rockies . Reproduced from a photograph by M. B. Huston. HUSTOX PARTY OX WAY UP He was a fixe, fat. black bear. OPPORTUNE MEETING WITH A BEAR 223 that if he made off in the opposite direction he mightnot get away. Presently, however, above and to theright, I saw a spot where the grass was bent down as ifby some animal dragging over it, and both grass andearth were copiously sprinkled with frothy red blood—the sure sign of a lung shot. Following this trail a fewyards, I found the bear lying dead against the trunk ofa sapling. A sort of bellow he had uttered as I wasdescending the cliff had evidently been his death-cry. He was a fine, fat, black bear, not too old, and hiscoat for the fall was unusually fine. When we came toexamine him closely, we found that two bullets hadstruck him. One had hit his left thigh, tearing themuscles badly and shattering the bone. The other hadpenetrated his left front leg, had passed out under thearmpit, had entered the body, and had passed out onthe other side. When Joe had examined these holes, hesaid: Of course, you hit him In th
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