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him to. He took to a hummock to have a command- 

 ing position, and there the dogs charged him, while 

 Nindemann and Wilson hastened to the scene with rifles. 

 He fought tooth and nail, and flung the dogs off right 

 and left with many a cut and scratch. Chipp saw the 

 fight from the deck-house, and says that when the dogs 

 charged the fur would fly, and then a dog would be sent 

 through the air, torn and repulsed. When the men 

 came within range Nindemann fired, the ball passing 

 through the bear, glancing against some bone, and, to 

 our great sorrow hitting poor Plug Ugly, entering his 

 lungs and causing death. It was not until W T ilson fired 

 that Plug Ugly fell, and it was at first supposed he was 

 killed by Wilson's shot. But our usual post-mortem 

 showed a flattened Remington bullet in the dog's lungs, 

 and the entrance and exit of the ball were found in the 

 bear's carcass. Wilson's piece was an English rifle. 



When injuries came to be examined, we found it a 

 very costly bit of bear. One dog killed, Plug Ugly ; 

 Prince with his back and fore shoulder cut, where Bruin 

 had caught him in his mouth and flung him ; Tom bad 

 a long gash on his rump, which had to be sewn up ; 

 and Wolf, the third hoodlum, had a long cut from his 

 rump to his stomach, requiring considerable sewing. 

 Bingo was torn in his side in two places clean through 

 to the intestines, making plenty of stitching necessary. 

 One of Alexey's dogs had a gash in his throat from the 

 claw. Snoozer had his mouth lengthened by a claw on 

 the cheek. Smike was torn in two places, and cuts of 

 less importance were more common. Such a fight we 

 have never had. The bear was seemingly a mother 

 of recent date, for she was plentiful in milk (in fact, 

 smaller tracks were afterward found alongside her 

 trail), and quite fat and otherwise in good condition. 



