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45 sufficient for bears. Mr. Shields had killed his boss elk, 

 Uncle Ed. had hammered the game all around. So we broke 

 camp after five weeks of unbounded pleasure in the Patohar 

 basin. 



After traveling seventy-five miles over the Clark's Fork 

 valley, we landed in Billings, all brown with sun and wind, 

 as stout and hearty a set of fellows as ever returned from a 

 hunting trip. From here each went his way, but it will be a 

 long time before the events of that hunt will be forgotten by 

 the participants. 



