LET US GO AFIELD 



in the pot. We all fed deep and slept hard that 

 wild night by the sea. 



Again three of us took the field, and on the next 

 day proceeded to repeat our regular system of cov- 

 ering as much ground as possible. Czaroff and I 

 hunted for a time together, and once more, as for- 

 tune would have it, the boss was the lucky man at 

 first getting sign of game. We had not been out 

 three hours before I found fresh diggings in the 

 alder thickets. Bears again! Yes, and by all for- 

 tunes of war, three of them again! Evidently one 

 large bear and two smaller ones had been living 

 here for a week or more. 



But again the wind was bad. "Natu karosha!" 

 muttered Czaroff. "Go home now! No good!" 

 His courage was easily daunted unless all things 

 were favorable. 



The rules of the house, however, were inflexible. 

 The company had to be whipped fair before it an- 

 nounced defeat. I showed him that by climbing 

 high up the mountain we might get ahead of the 

 game without its scenting us. Grudgingly he went 

 with me a mile or so up the steeps, but with no 

 enthusiasm, for he did not think the Grizzly Bear 

 Company, Limited, could by any possibility repeat 

 such luck as it had had. 



Once more the white man's eye was better than 

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