Good Hunting 



however, are so shy, so agile, and so 

 alert that it is only rarely they afford 

 meals to old Ephraim as the mountain 

 hunters call the grizzly. 



Domestic animals are slower, more 

 timid, more clumsy, and with far duller 

 senses. It is on these that the bear by 

 preference preys when he needs fresh 

 meat. I have never, myself, known one 

 to kill horses; but I have been informed 

 that the feat is sometimes performed, 

 usually in spring ; and the ranchman who 

 told me insisted that when a bear made 

 his rush he went with such astonishing 

 speed that the horse was usually over- 

 taken before it got well under way. 



The favorite food of a bear, however, 

 if he really wants fresh meat, is a hog or 

 sheep by preference the former. If a 

 bear once gets into the habit of visiting 

 a sheepfold or pigpen, it requires no 

 slight skill and watchfulness to keep 



