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BIG GAME SHOOTING 



round to see ' who hove that brick,' charged straight up the 

 bank, getting my second barrel as he came. He charged 

 thirty yards without a falter, and then suddenly collapsed and 

 rolled over stone-dead. After loading I walked up to the 

 bear, first throwing some stones at him to make sure he was 

 not shamming, and found it was an old, large she bear ; that 

 both my shots had hit 

 her, the first behind the : 

 shoulder, having cut right \ 

 through the heart, and yet, 



This time his side was towards me ' 



notwithstanding this and the second shot through the chest, 

 she had managed to charge thirty yards apparently uninjured. 

 We had much trouble to convey the head, skin, and some 

 of the meat down to the boat, which was greatly overloaded ; 

 but the weather was dead calm, so that, keeping close along 

 the shore, with continual bailing, we arrived safely at the end 

 of the lake, where, leaving the boat, we carried the trophy 

 down to another boat on the Fjord, and so home about 2 a.m. 



