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is the only really dangerous game we have, and the 

 decidedly hazardous character of the sport is what 

 gives it its greatest zest, and renders it the most fas- 

 cinating of pursuits. Many sportsmen proclaim the 

 superiority of their favorite pastime over all other 

 kinds, be it quail, grouse, or duck shooting, fox- 

 chasing, deer- stalking, or what not; and each has its 

 charm, more or less intense, according to its nature; 

 but no man ever felt his heart swell with pride, his 

 nerves tingle with animation, his whole system.glow 

 with wild, uncontrollable enthusiasm, at the bag- 

 ging of any bird or small animal, as does the man 

 who stands over the prostrate form of a monster 

 grizzly that he lias slain. Let the devotee of these 

 other classes of sport try bear hunting, and when he 

 has bagged his first grizzly, then let him talk! 



