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miniously “broke” and stirred him up. We 
chased him on horseback and afoot for three 
quarters of a mile, but did not get near 
enough to get in an effectual shot. The dogs, 
that had never before chased a live bear, 
could run alongside of him, but did not take 
hold. Probably you or I would have done 
the same thing under the circumstances. 
Haying-time cut short this hunt. A short 
time afterward one of my neighbors com- 
plained of the depredations of bears among 
his thoroughbred cattle, having recently lost 
two yearlings. I suggested that if he would 
furnish the medicine in the shape of a car- 
cass, a repetition of such business might be 
stopped. ide agreed, and I at once cecone 
noitered the locality and selected a point 
in the valley of a small mountain stream, 
where he promptly had the carcass planted. 
An almost daily inspection was made of the 
medicine, but not until the morning of the 
seventh day were there any indications of 
its being disturbed. Promptly on hand at five 
o'clock that evening, I was rather incau- 
tiously approaching under cover of a slight 
rise of ground and the sage-brush, and had 
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