CHAPTER XXI. 



THE BEAR AND THE SHEPHERDESS CHASE AND DEATH OF A BEAR THE 

 BEAST WHEN FROZEN RINGING HARES THE NORTHERN FORESTS THE 

 SHEALING DEATH OF THREE BEARS DALECARLIAN CHASSEURS THE 

 ELK AND THE WOLF RECOVERY AND DEATH OF A LOST BEAR. 



DURING my several trips to Wermeland, I was in at the 

 death of a good many bears : a portion were killed in Skalls, 

 but for the most part I shot them when, so to say, alone. 

 At times I was pretty successful that is, for Scandinavia, 

 where, however, there is not one bear, so I take it, to fifty in 

 the back woods of America. 



The winter of 1838-9 was one of my best seasons. In 

 the early part of it, and by the aid of a Knapt-Skall, I had 

 killed two bears (roused by myself) within a few 7 miles of 

 Ronnum ; but not being able to get others on foot, and as 

 the winter was wearing away, it then being the middle of 

 February, I proceeded with a brace of tolerable dogs into 

 Wermeland, in the hopes that fortune might there prove 

 more propitious. 



On reaching that province, however, I could gain no 



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