LET US GO AFIELD 



Then, slowly, an inch at a time, all lifting and pull- 

 ing together, all wet to the skin in the ice water, 

 we hauled her forth, a monster weight. 



I shall not soon forget the grim look of that 

 great gray head when it showed above the rim of 

 the snow roof. Hers was a splendid robe, with- 

 out a blemish save where her nose had been skinned 

 in the slide down the rocks two or three hundred 

 feet, and one missing toenail, perhaps lost in the 

 same way. More priceless than any Oriental rug 

 is this one which covers a certain space in a certain 

 floor today. 



A meeting of the directors and stockholders of 

 the Grizzly Bear Company, Limited, was called for 

 twelve o'clock that night, at which time we got 

 home with the last of our six hides, all secured 

 within six days and under conditions where every- 

 thing was against success. Now we talked with four 

 mouths full and eight hands in the stew kettle. In 

 the democracy of successful sport the stocks com- 

 mon and preferred were merged in one. 



