A Cattle-killing Bear 



been visited, for he never came back, but 

 returned to the river-bottom, and again 

 from time to time was heard of as slay- 

 ing some animal. However, at last his 

 fate overtook him. Early one morning 

 a cow was discovered just killed and not 

 yet eaten, the bear having probably 

 been scared off. Immediately the ranch- 

 man put poison in the bait which the bear 

 had thus himself left, and twenty-four 

 hours later the shaggy beast was found 

 lying dead within a dozen yards of his 

 last victim. 



