came snorting up the steep acclivity 

 wounded and raging, only to receive a 

 final shot in the brain that sent her 

 rolling back to lie dead at the bottom 

 of Pocket Gulch. The hunter, after 

 waiting to make sure, moved to the 

 edge and fired another shot into the 

 old one's body; then reloading, he went 

 / | cautiously down to the tree where still 



/ werethecubs. They gazed at him with 



wild seriousness as he approached 

 ( v ^ *' y them, and when he began to climb they 

 -\ a te ) scrambled up higher. Here one set up 

 ^ *5'* i a plaintive whining and the other an 

 N ^ an ^ r y growling, their outcries increas- 



ing as he came nearer. 



He took out a stout cord, and noos- 

 ing them in turn, dragged them to the 

 ground. One rushed at him and, though 

 little bigger than a cat, would certainly 

 have done him serious injury had he 

 not held it off with a forked stick. 



