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case I had returned to camp, and the 
bear should come. 
I thanked the cook for his solicitude. 
To while away the time,I put up a 
target and commenced practising with 
a 30-30 rifle at fifty yards range. 
I shot very badly. 
The cook obligingly interested him- 
self in my performance and kept tally 
on my aim, pointing out to me when it 
was high, when it was low, to the right 
or to the left. 
Then he took his six shooter and 
put a half dozen bullets in the bull’s- 
eye offhand. 
I lost my interest in shooting. 
The cook gave me some lunch, and 
while I was eating he stood before the 
fire looking at it through the fingers of 
his outstretched hand, with a queer 
squint in his cold gray eyes, as though 
