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HUNTING ADVENTURES. 



other animal of the same weight, he is much more an loyecl by the 

 dogs than before. This makes him take to a tree again for refuge, 

 he then climbs as high as it will bear him, and endeavors to con- 

 ceal himself among the thick foliage. The hunter now strikes 

 against the trunk of the tree as if he were felling it, which soon 

 nuts the bear in motion. He makes his way to the extremity of 

 a long and lofty branch, at which he draws himself partially into 

 the. form of a ball, and drops down, often from such a height as 

 hat he rebounds up again for several feet, as if he were an 

 elastic substance. He rises again from this fall, still uninjured, 

 and seeks safety by flight as before. His exertions are, however 

 so much greater than those of his pursuers, that, whatever may 

 be his strength, they in time wear him out, and he is ultimately 

 sh.it, either when standing up to give battle to the dogs, or when 

 attempting to hide himself behind the trunk of a tree. Such is 

 the mode of beur hunting where there are trees ; but in the large 

 open prairies he runs much farther, and the hunt is one of 

 greater ardor, unless when he is shot at an early stage ; but, if 

 the marksman is not skilful, shooting is rather a dangerous 

 matter while the bear is unexhausted, as the pain arouses all his 

 strength, and arms him with the most desperate powers of revenge 

 so that he would be too much both for dogs and hunter. Tree 

 in<i a bear in a canoe, as represented in the opposite engraving 

 is a nice operation ; but it is not an easy mode of captur 



