HAPPY HUNTING GROUNDS. 



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outwards. The mate and I had both set off running to head it 

 off. but the mate had kept a more westerly course than I had, and 

 so came in for the first chance of a shot. He must have missed 

 it in his haste, for the bear went on just the same, but the shot 

 made it change its course, and it now headed for me. I dropped 

 the animal, and then the whole pack threw themselves on to 

 it they had found their courage now, even the cowards. They 

 fell on its body and tore its hair like mad things. The bear turned 



FlIOSI SCIIIU ISLAND. GOOB PASTURE. 



its head backwards and forwards a few times, glaring with dying- 

 eyes at its enemies ; but when we came up it was dead. 



At the same moment that the mate and I had started after 

 the bear, Fosheim had gone hotfoot after my dogs, which had 

 run away up the hillside. While we were now standing contem- 

 plating ' the white 'un,' we heard, to our astonishment, the dogs 

 giving tongue on the other side of the ridge. We looked at one 

 another, and had to confess that we had done them injustice. 

 They were not so mad after all ! They knew how to appraise game, 



