GAME SHOOTING 



how you pack it upon any ordinary pony. A spark applied to 

 a powder magazine is hardly more astounding in its effects than 

 the application of a fresh bear-skin to the back of some of the 

 meekest of cayuses. A perfect Dobbin which belonged to the 

 writer shook his faith in horseflesh for ever by cutting his legs 

 from under him as if they had been carried away by a round 



Poor old Sam 



shot, merely because Dobbin had been asked somewhat sud- 

 denly to carry the hide of a two-year-old black bear. 



In all American sport, dogs are used from time to time by 

 the trappers and meat hunters who make hunting a business, 

 and a thoroughly broken collie, such as accompanied the writer 

 and Mr. Arnold Pike in an expedition to Colorado, would 

 be invaluable to any still hunter, as this dog would not run in 

 without orders, would precede his master at a slow walk in 



