74 HUNTING THE GRISLY. 



mountain hunters who disappeared, and were 

 found years later in the lonely wilderness, as 

 mouldering skeletons, the shattered bones of 

 the forearms still held in the rusty jaws of the 

 gin. 



Doubtless the grisly could be successfully 

 hunted with dogs, if the latter were carefully 

 bred and trained to the purpose, but as yet 

 this has not been done, and though dogs are 

 sometimes used as adjuncts in grisly hunting 

 they are rarely of much service. It is some- 

 times said that very small dogs are the best 

 for this end. But this is only so with grislies 

 that have never been hunted. In such a case 

 the big bear sometimes becomes so irritated 

 with the bouncing, yapping little terriers or 

 fice-dogs that he may try to catch them and 

 thus permit the hunter to creep upon him. 

 But the minute he realizes, as he speedily does, 

 that the man is his real foe, he pays no further 

 heed whatever to the little dogs, who can then 

 neither bring him to bay nor hinder his flight. 

 Ordinary hounds, of the kinds used in the 

 South for fox, deer, wild-cat, and black bear, 

 are but little better. I have known one or 

 two men who at different times tried to hunt 

 the grisly with a pack of hounds and fice-dogs 

 wonted to the chase of the black bear, but 

 they never met with success. This was pro- 

 bably largely owing to the nature of the country 

 in which they hunted, a vast tangled mass of 

 forest and craggy mountain ; but it was also 

 due to the utter inability of the dogs to stop 

 the quarry from breaking bay when it wished. 



