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fullest extent. Please now note the following narra- 

 tive as told by his companion Kibbee : 



" I'll be hanged if I ever seed such a cool, unnervous, 

 unexcitable man as that there Dr. Hughes is. When 

 we spied the old she bear fust she was a-sittin' on her 

 haunches eatin' blueberries in big mouthfuls. As she 

 crushed them in her mouth the juice would squirt out 

 of each side of her jaws, and she never noticed us ; she 

 was too busy lickin' her chops and pullin' the berries 

 off 'n the bushes. 



" The doctor has two sets of glasses one for shootin' 

 and the other for walkin'. As soon as he seed her he 

 deliberately takes off his walkin' glasses and puts them 

 into a case and puts that case into his left vest pocket. 

 Then he takes outen his right vest pocket his other 

 glasses, also in a case. That case was tied by a piece 

 of string in a knot. 



" He unties the string, rolls it up and puts it in his 

 pocket, opens the case, takes out the glasses, puts them 

 on and then carefully puts the case back into the right- 

 hand pocket of his vest. He next raises the rifle, 

 sights it at the old bear, a still settin' on her haunches, 

 pulls the trigger and, jimminy crickets, the old gal 

 rolls over dead. 



" Then he and me got mixed up with the two cubs ; 

 for in place of shootin' at the two we only shot at one, 

 and the other got lost in the shuffle." 



They skinned the two bears as speedily as they 



