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his life, had gotten into his embrace. The man told me 

 his story. He was huntsman for a party of miners in 

 California. One day, when out alone, he ascended a 

 steep and high mountain, and, just as he arrived at the 

 top, met face to face a huge grizzly just starting down 

 the trail by which the man went up. Neither could 

 retreat without giving great advantage to the other. 

 The bear raised himself on his hind legs, and, thus 

 erect, approached the man, who, presenting his rifle and 

 getting his knife ready, awaited the attack. The bear 

 slowly advanced and took the muzzle of the rifle in his 

 mouth. Depressing the butt of the piece so as to direct 

 the ball through the bear's brain, the man fired. Before 

 he had time to use his knife, or even to think, he found 

 himself in the bear's clutches. ' It was all over in a 

 second,' said he. ' I didn't feel pain, and I remember 

 thinking I was about like a mouse in a cat's jaws, and 

 what a fool I was to think I might hurt a grizzly with 

 my knife, when everything went away, and I didn't know 

 any more 'til I come to the next day in camp.' 



His companions had found him and the grizzly 

 apparently dead in a heap together. The bear was dead, 

 shot through the brain. The man showed signs of life 

 and was taken to camp, restoratives were applied, and his 

 wounds examined and dressed. The bear in his last throes 

 had apparently given but one rake with each of his terribly 

 armed paws. One fore claw passed over the man's right 

 shoulder, had hooked under the right shoulder-blade and 

 torn it out entirely. The other fore claw had torn all 

 the flesh from the right side. One hind claw had torn 

 open the lower abdomen, letting out the bowels and 

 badly scarifying the left leg, while the other hind claw 

 had torn every particle of muscle from the right thigh 

 from groin to knee. In spite of these terrible injuries, 

 the man, after many months, recovered. When I saw 

 him he was apparently in good health, but could not use 

 or even move his right arm or either leg. He gave me 



