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miniously " broke " and stirred him up. We 

 chased him on horseback and afoot for three 

 quarters of a mile, but did not get near 

 enough to get in an effectual shot. The dogs, 

 that had never before chased a live bear, 

 could run alongside of him, but did not take 

 hold. Probably you or I would have done 

 the same thing under the circumstances. 



Haying-time cut short this hunt. A short 

 time afterward one of my neighbors com- 

 plained of the depredations of bears among 

 his thoroughbred cattle, having recently lost 

 two yearlings. I suggested that if he would 

 furnish the medicine in the shape of a car- 

 cass, a repetition of such business might be 

 stopped. He agreed, and I at once recon- 

 noitered the locality and selected a point 

 in the valley of a small mountain stream, 

 where he promptly had the carcass planted. 

 An almost daily inspection was made of the 

 medicine, but not until the morning of the 

 seventh day were there any indications of 

 its being disturbed. Promptly on hand at five 

 o'clock that evening, I was rather incau- 

 tiously approaching under cover of a slight 

 rise of ground and the sage-brush, and had 



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