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this furry elephant ; he would not come 

 to a bait; he never fed twice from the 

 same kill. 



Two reckless boys once trailed him 

 to a rocky glen. The horses would 

 not enter; the boys went in afoot, and 

 were never seen again. The Mexi- 

 cans held him in superstitious terror, 

 believing that he could not be killed; 

 and he passed another year in the 

 cattle-land, known and feared now as 

 the " Monarch of the Range, " killing 

 in the open by night, and retiring by 

 day to his fastness in the near hills, 

 where horsemen could not follow. 



Bonamy had been called away; but 

 all that summer, and winter, too, for 

 the Grizzly no longer " denned up," 

 Kellyan rode and rode, each time too 

 late or too soon to meet the Monarch. 

 He was almost giving up, not in despair, 

 but for lack of means, when a message 



