BEAR-HUNTING 



gings of three bears not one, but three, and all of 

 them very decent ones at that. Evidently they had 

 been feeding along this canon for more than a 

 week. Preferred stock rose rapidly about fifty 

 points, then and there. 



But the sign was so mixed and so abundant that 

 it was hard to trace. The bears had slept here and 

 eaten here, but which way had they gone ? 



Preferred stock took a decided slump in the course 

 of the afternoon; for, do the best I could, I was 

 unable to puzzle out the course of the great brutes 

 which had left their record here. Common stock, 

 also, as represented by Kuroki, was closing weak, 

 Kuroki having, as I could tell through my field 

 glasses, found a warm spot against a rock where 

 he could sit tight and hunt after the fashion of 

 "his peoples." Hunting after the fashion of my 

 own peoples, I pushed steadily on to the top of my 

 mountain, but did not cut the trail. 



Then I crossed over a high shoulder, high up in 

 the clouds of mist, leaving far below me a grand 

 panorama of the sea in bands of dulling colors > 

 such a picture as you must go hunting in these white 

 high hills ever to witness. At six o'clock in the 

 evening, on the breast of a great snow-field, I 

 flung myself down to rest before starting down for 

 the rendezvous at the boat. I had not found my 



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