BEAR-SHOOTING 



TRANSYLVANIA. 



AUTUMN 1882. 



OK the 21st of September our small party of sportsmen 

 arrived at the castle, situated near the village of Gorgeny 

 St. Imre, but there found unfortunately that the weather was 

 still like summer, the heat great, and the trees and bushes yet 

 green and in full leaf, a state of matters that appeared to 

 indicate that it was rather too early for bear-shooting. We 

 determined, however, to begin on the 22nd, for the trackers 

 had found the traces of two or three bears in the neighbourhood 

 of the fields and villages. 



It rained in torrents, the ground was very sodden, and the 

 thickets of the lower woods, besides being almost impenetrable, 

 were dripping wet. Consequently the beaters drove very 

 badly, and possibly a bear may have remained lying quite 

 undisturbed in the first beat, which was especially thick. 

 Three covers were tried one after another, but all with the 

 same negative results, the tracks of two small bears on the 

 paths being all that MQK seen during the day. 



