ON THE PRAlk 



had the long thick winter fur, cinnamon or 

 yellowish brown. By the way, the name of 

 bear has reference to its character and 

 not to its color, and should, I suppose, be 

 properly spelt grisly in the sense of horrible, 

 exactly as we speak of a " grisly spectre " 

 and not grizzly ; but perhaps the latter way 

 of spelling it is too well established to be 

 now changed. 



In killing dangerous game steadiness is 

 more needed than good shooting. No game 

 is dangerous unless a man is close up, for 

 nowadays hardly any wild beast will charge 

 from a distance of a hundred yards, but 

 will rather try to run off; and if a man is 

 close it is easy enough for him to shoot 

 straight if he does not lose his head. A 

 bear's brain is about the size of a pint bot- 

 tle; and any one can hit a pint bottle off- 

 hand at thirty or forty feet. I have had two 

 shots at bears at close quarters, and each time 

 I fired into the brain, the bullet in one case 

 striking fairlv between the eyes, as told 

 above, and in the other going in between the 



