HOW TO HUNT THE BEAR. 



FIND a trail where the bear comes to 

 water and then select a tree that you can 

 climb, twenty or thirty yards to one side of 

 the trail. About ten o'clock in the morning 

 take a position in the tree from which you 

 can keep a close watch up the trail. On see- 

 ing the bear, get all ready to shoot, letting 

 Bruin come as close as you want him to, 

 then give a bleat and he will stop. That is 

 the time for you to shoot if your finger 

 doesn't fail to work. 



In the spring of the year the bear feeds on 

 buds ; this is called lapping by bear hunt- 

 ers. The bear climbs the trees and pulls the 

 small limbs to him, breaking them off and 

 making a great racket. 



In order to find the bear when lapping, go 



