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of the 45-90 bullets to kill her. She was one 

 of the long-legged greyhound kind, but quite 

 fat; and, judging from the impression she 

 made on a small tree she ran against and 

 clawed like an angry cat, she would have 

 badly damaged any man she might have met. 

 Her jaw had been shattered by Hanna's first 

 shot ; the second had traversed her body, and 

 there were two through her heart. Her 

 vitality was really astonishing. We got the 

 wounded cub, but the other had rolled down 

 the gulch; and as we could not reach him 

 without a long detour, we left him behind. 

 We skinned the two animals and packed their 

 hides to camp on our backs, finding the loads 

 very heavy before we reached there. 



Porcupines were very plentiful, as they are 

 in most parts of the Rockies, and grow to a 

 great size. They sometimes fall victims to 

 bears, which manage to turn them over and 

 get at the unprotected parts, eating every- 

 thing but the quill-covered skin. In one 

 day's hunt I saw the remains of three that 

 had been thus treated. Bears also dig up the 

 nests of yellow-jackets for the larvae they 

 contain; and we came upon a nest so lately 



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