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of the 45-90 bullets to kill her. She was one 
of the long-legged greyhound kind, but quite 
fat; and, judging from the impression she 
made on a small tree she ran against and 
clawed like an angry cat, she would have 
badly damaged any man she might have met. 
Her jaw had been shattered by Hanna’s first 
shot; the second had traversed her body, and 
there, were) two through her | heart.’ Hier 
vitality was really astonishing. We got the 
wounded cub, but the other had rolled down 
the gulch; and as we could not reach him 
without a long detour, we left him behind. 
We skinned the two animals and packed their 
hides to camp on our backs, finding the loads 
very heavy before we reached there. 
Porcupines were very plentiful, as they are 
in most parts of the Rockies, and grow to a 
great size. They sometimes fall victims to 
bears, which manage to turn them over and 
get at the unprotected parts, eating every- 
thing but the quill-covered skin. In one 
day’s hunt I saw the remains of three that 
had been thus treated. Bears also dig up the 
nests of yellow-jackets for the larve they 
contain; and we came upon a nest so lately 
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