probably far away, as he judged the 

 track to be several weeks old. I had 

 heard so many tales of this monster 

 that when I gazed upon his track I felt 

 as though I were looking at the auto- 

 graph of a hero. 



We saw other smaller grizzly and 

 black bear tracks that day, so it was 

 decided to set a bear bait. Our Host 

 was a cattle king, and could wage war 

 on bears with a good conscience. The 

 usual three-cornered affair of logs was 

 fixed, the trap in the centre and elk 

 meat as a decoy. Horse meat is more 

 alluring, but we deemed we would not 

 need that, since we had with us "a 

 never-failing bear charm." Its object 

 was to suggest a lady bear, and thus 

 attract some gallant to her side. The 

 secret of the preparation of this charm 

 had been confided to Nimrod by an old 





