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and Tim that we would keep it clear of grizzlies 

 while they followed with prospecting hammers 

 examining the ledges for signs of ore. 



"It may not be as funny as you think," said 

 Mackenzie as we left him and the result proved 

 his remark to be prophetic. 



The ravine was filled with great masses of 

 broken rock and boulders ten feet in diameter. 

 As I climbed over and around and slid down them 

 I became pretty nervous for always I was in a 

 cut de sac and if I had met a grizzly I should have 

 been within a few feet of him with more chance of 

 being killed than of killing. I heard a noise near 

 me and got a glimpse of a bit of moving fur 

 between two boulders. It might as well have 

 been a grizzly instead of the ground hog it proved 

 to be so far as my excitement was concerned. 

 But that excitement was quickly displaced by 

 another which alarmed me intensely. There 

 came the report of Ned's rifle and I rejoiced in 

 the thought that he had got a grizzly for I knew 

 that he would fire at nothing less, but soon came 

 a second report, at which I was not surprised for 



