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looking for salmon. The Indians saw him when 

 a hundred yards or more away, and flattened them- 

 selves out on the ground to await his nearer 

 approach. I raised my rifle to my shoulder, but they 



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both motioned me to wait, that he was yet too far 

 away. I disregarded their injunction, however, and 

 promptly landed an express bullet in the bear's 

 breast. He reared, uttered a smothered groan, 

 turned, made one jump, and fell dead. Now arose 

 the question of saving his skin; it was late, and we 

 were yet three miles from the Indian village; to skin 



