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o'clock. We wanted to be up in the 

 likeliest place for bear in the late 

 afternoon and it takes all day to get 

 anywhere, for most of the travel, 

 over merciless rocky steeps, has to 

 be done on foot. Sally and I can go 

 anywhere a horse can go, but the 

 necessity for personal locomotion im- 

 mediately puts us at a disadvantage. 



Nimrod and I took Sommers and 

 started off westerly. The Tevi and 

 five guns of various makes and sizes 

 (Bobbie believed in being ready for 

 all emergencies) went with Lusk in 

 the other direction. Of their luck 

 Sally told at the campfire later 

 much later. 



They did much hard travelling but 

 saw nothing except a martin sitting 

 in a black ball up a tree. About four 

 o'clock afar off they heard shots and 

 thought we must be firing, as there 

 was no one else in the mountains. 



" Should judge that was about two 

 ridges over, wouldn't you? Wonder 

 what they have struck?" Lusk said. 

 " Two shots, that will hardly be a 

 a bear." 



" Now keep a sharp look out, Pet," 

 Bobbie called excitedly," that may 



