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to the bears and to me. To the former he 

 shouted, — 



"Come back! Come back! I'll give you a 

 thousand dollars to come back. I'll fight you 

 with my hands if you'll come." 



To me he said, — 



"If you were as quick with your rifle as you 

 are with that {participle) camera you'd be of 

 some use in this country." 



We camped by the beautiful Vallecito and 

 while the men were doing the camp work we as- 

 sembled our trout rods and dropped our flies 

 down a twenty-foot precipice of rock into a dark, 

 deep pool in the stream. Fishing with a rod was 

 a farce for scarcely had the three flies of my cast 

 touched the water when each of them was taken 

 by a trout. I lost two in the attempt to land 

 them, which could only be done by lifting them 

 out of the water by the line and hauling them up 

 to where I stood. We discarded our rods and 

 cutting short poles hauled out about two trout a 

 minute in most unsportsmanlike manner. 



As we sat by the blazing camp fire that night 



