CHARLES L, YOUNGBLOOD. I 7 



wrists. He resorted to the same stratagem as 

 before, but waited until the brute was out ol" 

 sight, when he again started to crawl toward 

 home, dragging himself through the snow 

 which was about four inches deep. A few 

 moments after the struggle, his brother hap- 

 pened to be passing that way and seeing the 

 the marks of the light, not knowing that it was 

 his brother w^ho had been torn nearly to pieces, 

 went on the trail of the bear, which, when over- 

 taken, was for another tight, but a repeating 

 rifle proved too much for it, and he soon had 

 it safely dead. He then started back to see who 

 the man was who had been in the clutches ot 

 the bear, and his feelings may be better imag- 

 ined than described, w^hen, after lollowirg It 

 about half a mile, he found it was his brother. 

 The wounded man had crawled that distance 

 with one wrist and both legs broken. The 

 poor fellow was in great agonv and lived but 

 a few hours. His father said he would have 

 the bear skinned and sleep on the hide as long- 

 as he lived. 



A few days after this I fell in with some old 



