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neglect, or choose a trail — for in t]io<e indistiiic-t patlis, 

 are visible to his mind's eye. bear that arc young and 

 old, lean and fat. You look into the forest, all is va- 

 cant ; the hunter, at a casual glance, detects where 

 has passed his object of pursuit, and grows as enthusi- 

 astic over this spiritual representation as if the reality 

 was before him — and herein, perhaps, lies the distinction 

 between the sportsman, and the huntsman. The hunter 

 follows his object by his own knowledge and instinct, 

 while the sportsman employs the instinct of domesticated 

 animals to assist in his pursuits. 



The different methods by which to destroy the grizzly 

 bear, by those who hunt them, are as numerous as the 

 bears that are killed. They are not animals which per- 

 mit of a system in hunting them; and it is for this reason 

 that they are so dangerous and difficult to destroy. The 

 experience of one hunt may cost a limb or a life in the 

 next one, if used as a criterion ; and fatal, indeed, is a 

 mistake, — when you grapple with an animal, whose gi- 

 gantic strength enables him to lift a horse in his huge 

 arms, and bear it away as a prize. There is one terrible 

 exception to this rule ; one habit of the animal may be 

 certainly calculated upon, but a daring heart only can 

 take advantage of it. 



The grizzly bear, like the tiger and lion, have their 

 caves in which they live ; but they use them principally 

 as a safe lodging-place when the cold of winter renders 

 them torj>id :ind disposed to sleep. To these caves they 



