horse country and not fit for humans 

 to travel in. We left our horses 

 about noon. We had been off them 

 most of the time, anyway, and soon 

 after we heard the shots, we saw two 

 bears feeding on the mountain side 

 about a mile away. In order to ap- 

 proach them we had to climb back 

 on the ridge we had just left. We 

 had trailed for an hour my gun 

 weighed over three hundred pounds 

 by then, and the thing I breathe with 

 had struck work, only got a good 

 breath about one in twenty when 

 we sneaked out of cover and saw that 

 the bears had hardly moved. It was 

 a long shot, good three hundred yards, 

 but Bobbie was not doing much 

 better in the way of lungs, and he 

 decided to risk the shot. The bullet 

 struck one of the bears, and both of 

 them sought the bushes. Bobbie got 

 another shot into the wounded one, 

 I think, before it dropped. Of course 

 we started pell mell in pursuit. We 

 slipped and fell and tore our hands 

 and ' barked ' our shins until we were 

 about half way down the mountain 

 where there was a little level place. 

 That was my limit. Go further with- 



