n6 Hunting the Grisly 



the low scrub, where the enraged sailor folk 

 were unable to get at it. 



The truth is that while the grisly generally 

 avoids a battle if possible, and often acts with 

 great cowardice, it is never safe to take lib- 

 erties with him ; he usually fights desperately 

 and dies hard when wounded and cornered, 

 and exceptional individuals take the aggres- 

 sive on small provocation. 



During the years I lived on the frontier I 

 came in contact with many persons who had 

 been severely mauled or even crippled for life 

 by grislies; and a number of cases where they 

 killed men outright were also brought under 

 my ken. Generally these accidents, as was 

 natural, occurred to hunters who had roused 

 or wounded the game. 



A fighting bear sometimes uses his claws 

 and sometimes his teeth. I have never known 

 one to attempt to kill an antagonist by hug- 

 ging, in spite of the popular belief to this 

 effect; though he will sometimes draw an 

 enemy toward him with his paws the better 

 to reach him with his teeth, and to hold him 

 so that he can not escape from the biting. 

 Nor does the bear often advance on his hind 

 legs to the attack; though, if the man has 

 come close to him in thick underbrush, or has 



