LET US GO AFIELD 



surely must be dead. Business again resumed sway 

 in our councils. I preferred to take it easy on the 

 beach for a few hours. Kuroki, in view of ten 

 dollars more in hand paid, reluctantly consented to 

 guide the new troops up the mountain. He lasted 

 until the scene of the battle was reached. Then he 

 grew very much fatigued, and fain would pause. 

 No Aleut likes crippled grizzlies. 



Ten hours later I heard a shout and saw the rest 

 of the staff appear on the edge of the shore far 

 down the bay. They threw down from their shoul- 

 ders not one, but two more hides ! Common stock 

 was marked up on a sharp bulge. 



It turned out that they had found the third bear 

 which had escaped unhurt, and Barnes killed it close 

 up as it lay near the cripple. The latter he fired at 

 in a thicket several times, and finally finished with 

 almost his last shot, close at hand, it acting rather 

 ugly. This hide had eight bullets through it and 

 was fairly a partnership affair, as well as the one 

 Kuroki and I had accounted for together. Had I 

 reserved all the shooting for the preferred stock 

 we might not have had nearly a doryful of prime 

 hides, as we now had. 



It was now night of the second day since we had 

 started on this hunt, having been on our feet for 

 thirty-six hours with only one real meal during that 



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