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by this time, and am about to give him another when 

 Tom says, " Wait a minute, mate, he's a deader ; " 

 so I don't. He hadn't gone twenty feet before he 

 had to stop, sat up on his hind quarters, gnashing his 

 teeth and " raising Cain " generally, and then rolled 

 over dead ! The dog, who has been as steady as a 

 rock all this time, gets the word to go, and as he licks 

 the wound for the fast-flowing blood, we know there's 

 no more fear from him, and rush out with a Avild 

 whoop. He turned out to be a big " silver -tip " 

 grizzly i.e., not the bond fide ball-faced grizzly of 

 the Sierra Nevadas, but as much like him " as they 

 make 'em " in these mountains. He was in splendid 

 condition, and the fur, as Tom said, would make 

 an "elegant" robe. The ball had gone in at the 

 shoulder, which, as he was quartering towards me, 

 was the right spot : it passed through the heart and 

 liver, and came out, lodging a good inch, in a tree' 

 just behind, as we afterwards discovered. So if any 

 one could grumble at the penetration of a Marlin . 45, 

 he would be hard to satisfy. The bear's measure- 

 ments were: length of snout, 15 inches; height 

 from ground, 3 feet 6 inches ; girth, 4 feet 8 inches ; 

 length from tail to nose, 7 feet 10 inches. The third 

 man soon came up post-haste from camp, and we 

 were hard at work skinning him " right away." A 

 mighty supper we had that night off genuine bear- 

 steak ; and from this time onwards we were never with- 

 out that most indispensable camping necessary, grease. 



