. The young Nimrods in North America : a book for boys . ss of the skull. Itis the tenacity of life in the grizzly, combined with his great ferocity,that makes him so dangerous to the solitary hunter. There is very littlechance of killing him at the first shot, and, when wounded, he will makea hard and earnest fight for his life. There is a story in California of a man that once found the track ofa grizzly bear, and followed it for a day and a half before giving it friend asked him why he abandoned it, after following it so long, andhe answered, The fact is, that track was getting a littl
. The young Nimrods in North America : a book for boys . ss of the skull. Itis the tenacity of life in the grizzly, combined with his great ferocity,that makes him so dangerous to the solitary hunter. There is very littlechance of killing him at the first shot, and, when wounded, he will makea hard and earnest fight for his life. There is a story in California of a man that once found the track ofa grizzly bear, and followed it for a day and a half before giving it friend asked him why he abandoned it, after following it so long, andhe answered, The fact is, that track was getting a little too fresh to be safe. I was once invited to join an excursion party in southern California, 3 :J4 THE YOUNG NIMKODS. whose object was a pleasant fortnight or so among the mountains of thecoast range. We were a dozen or more, and there were not more thantwo or three of the lot that had any experience worth mentioning inhunting. We had a distinguished judge of the California courts; an A:, ^:--^^MX$:^^,,i .#£ <;*!%&K~LZ^I^ ~^;t ***£ . •• :. CAMPING IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. officer of the army, with the rank of general; two lawyers well known inSan Francisco; and the balance of the party included merchants, miningspeculators, and a doctor of medicine. We made our camp in a pleasantvalley in the mountains, and on the bank of a stream that supplied us A GRIZZLY IN CAMP! 3i) with an abundance of pure water. The first day the hunting membersof the party went out and succeeded in shooting a deer and some smallergame, that gave us all the fresh meat we wanted. The second morning, just as the cook announced that breakfast wasready, and the members of the party were bringing their fresh appe-
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