. Lost Lenore; or, The adventures of a rolling stone . It appeared as if it could only stand still and bellow. Parie 120. ,t- ^,. _ - - fUBO R. L A BULL, AND BEAR FIGHT. 121 his body. The bear was killed instantly, though strangeto say, his death was caused by a single bullet, out ofall the shots that had hit him, and there were more thana hundred that had been truly aimed ! The only wound,that could have proved fatal to such a monster, was ashot that had entered one of his ears, and penetrated tothe brain. Many balls were afterwards found flattenedagainst the animals skull, and his skin was l
. Lost Lenore; or, The adventures of a rolling stone . It appeared as if it could only stand still and bellow. Parie 120. ,t- ^,. _ - - fUBO R. L A BULL, AND BEAR FIGHT. 121 his body. The bear was killed instantly, though strangeto say, his death was caused by a single bullet, out ofall the shots that had hit him, and there were more thana hundred that had been truly aimed ! The only wound,that could have proved fatal to such a monster, was ashot that had entered one of his ears, and penetrated tothe brain. Many balls were afterwards found flattenedagainst the animals skull, and his skin was literallypeppered; but though the man, at the time the shotswere fired, was clutching the bears throat with bothhands, he was not touched by a single bullet! There were two circumstances connected with thisaffair, that, happening in any other land but California,would have been very extraordinary. One was, thesimultaneous discharge of so many shots, at the momentwhen the bear was seen to have the man in his might have been supposed that the s
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