180 SPORT IN NORWAY. 
CHAPTER IY. 
BEAR AND LYNX HUNTING, ETC.—REMARKS ON 
BIRDS OF PREY. 
ENGLISH bear-hunters in Norway may be declined like 
adjective pronouns, 7. ¢., divided into three degrees—the 
positively unfortunate, the comparatively lucky, and 
the superlatively successful. 
The first are those who have toiled and moiled at 
‘‘bear-slaving,” without ever catching even so much as 
a glimpse of his shaggy highness; the second those 
who have been fortunate enough either just to have 
seen him, or to have missed domg so by an in- 
appreciable punctum temporis ; and the third, those 
who have actually shot a bear, and perhaps brought 
home with them a pot of the genuine grease as a 
trophy, which in all probability proved so unpleasant to 
the olfactory nerves as to have been thrown away from 
not having been properly prepared. 
That there are a good many bears in Norway, the 
remarks interspersed above, and the returns which have 
