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stopped and we all looked in every direction to see if 

 there was anything moving, but all was still. Then he 

 was off to our novel trap at a lively gait. We soon 

 heard a yell from him. 



"We've got her and she's a grizzly for sure, and 

 she's still warm," he cried. We were there in no time, 

 and there, indeed, she was, jammed in so tight in order 

 to get at her breakfast that we couldn't turn her, but 

 the three of us dragged her out and viewed her over. 



She had been killed instantly ; the bullet had passed 

 downward between her shoulders, and had pierced 

 her heart and liver ; she hadn't moved after being shot. 



The two trappers pronounced her to be a four-year- 

 old female grizzly, and said she had never been a 

 mother, and consequently she was just rolling in fat. 

 We removed about sixty pounds of this white and 

 beautiful looking fat from her back and shoulders and 

 about ten pounds from the intestines. 



The skin was a very heavy one, but somewhat worn 

 on the haunches from sitting down while feeding on 

 the rich bunches of blueberries. 



Kibbee carefully removed the gall bladder, which 

 is much in demand by Chinamen as a cure for indiges- 

 tion, and for which they will readily pay from $1.50 

 to $2.00. With one man carrying the fat and the 

 other the hide, we left the burnt land at half -past ten. 



Now a heavy grizzly hide is not an easy thing to 

 carry and neither is seventy pounds of fat, so we had 



