them by slow stages toward the rest 

 of the flock. 



Only six or seven miles across coun- 

 try, but it was late night when Lan 

 arrived. 



Tampico gladly turned over half of 

 the promised dust. That night they 

 camped together, and, of course, no 

 Bear appeared. 



In the morning Lan went back to 

 the canon and found, as expected, that 

 the Bear had returned and killed the 

 remaining sheep. 



The hunter piled the rest of the 

 carcasses in an open place, lightly 

 sprinkled the Grizzly's trail with some 

 very dry brush, then making a plat- 

 form some fifteen feet from the ground 

 in a tree, he rolled up in his blanket 

 there and slept. 



An old Bear will rarely visit a place 

 three nights in succession ; a cunning 



