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with rifles, started away from the car hoping to get 

 a sight of a bear. Six of these animals — two grizzlies 

 and one black bear, each with a cub — were reported 

 to be feeding on berries less than a quarter of a mile 

 away from the station. In a very few minutes three 

 shots were heard, then five in rapid succession, then 

 another shot, and we divined that a bear had surely 

 fallen. Excitement ran high and all were on tiptoe 

 of expectation, until the two hunters returned — with- 

 out the bear. 



It took some time for the truth to gleam through the 

 glamour surrounding that early morning encounter 

 with bruin, and here it is. A railway employee had 

 located the bears and at daylight crept down among 

 the berry bushes where they were expected to feed, 

 and patiently waited with the determination of bring- 

 ing one down. The track here makes a sharply de- 

 fined horseshoe curve, and on one arm of this curve is 

 a snow-shed a mile long. One of our hunters had 

 climbed on top of this shed and walked along for half 

 its length when he saw a bear come out in an open 

 patch seven hundred yards away. Now, he couldn't 

 get off the shed without going to the end of it and by 

 doing this he feared he might lose sight of the bear. 

 80 to lose no time he commenced firing. 



The other hunter saw with his glass a man down in 

 the berry patch and thought hunter number one was 

 shooting at him. The man in the berry patch seemed 



