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and had not the sand to come further, but 
changing his direction to the left about forty- 
five degrees, passed within twenty yards of 
my right front. I was loaded and ready for 
another shot as he passed. He appeared so 
near done for, however, that I hesitated to 
fire, wishing to have some practice on him 
for my two young dogs Bob and Snip, which 
had never seen a live bear. He, however, 
seemed, after passing, to mend his licks so fast 
that I feared he would give trouble in de- 
spatching him, so I ran rapidly after him, 
he in the mean time having partially dis- 
appeared under the bank; and when within 
fifteen or twenty yards he turned at bay, 
facing me. Before he could charge, if such 
was his aim, the 110-340-grain cartridge was 
delivered into the side of the neck within the 
collar-bone, making a fearful wound, and roll- 
ing him down into the gulch, where he soon 
died. It was only after my man had come up 
and the bear had been rolled over that his 
dimensions and the danger I escaped by the 
little ball doing such execution at the socket- 
joint were realized. Had it struck an inch 
and a half to the left, he would have been on 
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