American Big-Game Hunting 



his left side to rather more than a quartering 

 shot. Aim was quickly taken for his heart. 

 A report followed, and the little express- 

 ball did its work well. It broke two ribs, 

 three or four large fragments entered the 

 heart, and the balance of the splinters scat- 

 tered through the lungs. Making but little 

 noise when hit, an ugly sigh, he, as this 

 species of bear almost always does under like 

 circumstances, tucked his head between his 

 hind legs, and rolled down into the gulch, using 

 his fore legs for guides. He came up with a 

 bounce, was on his feet in a moment and mak- 

 ing a rush straight for me. I had loaded in a 

 jiffy with the other i io-27o-grain cartridge, 

 but waited a moment until he commenced as- 

 cending my side of the gulch, hoping with 

 a good shot to roll him back. Crossing 

 rapidly the bed of the gulch, he was in a 

 moment ascending toward me, and when 

 within about thirty yards (he was originally 

 about seventy yards at the first fire) I fired at 

 his front, hitting at the point of the right 

 shoulder, shattering the socket-joint and that 

 bone half-way to the elbow. He did not 

 roll back, but was demoralized and sickened, 



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