24 BIG GAME SHOOTING 
how you pack it upon any ordinary pony. A spark applied to 
a powder magazine is hardly more astounding in its effects than 
the application of a fresh bear-skin to the back of some of the 
meekest of cayuses. A perfect Dobbin which belonged to the 
writer shook his faith in horseflesh for ever by cutting his legs 
from under him as if they had been carried away by a round 
Poor old Sam 
shot, merely because Dobbin had been asked somewhat sud- 
denly to carry the hide of a two-year-old black bear. 
In all American sport, dogs are used from time to time by 
the trappers and meat hunters who make hunting a business, 
and a thoroughly broken collie, such as accompanied the writer 
and Mr. Arnold Pike in an expedition to Colorado, would 
be invaluable to any still hunter, as this dog would not run in 
without orders, would precede his master at a slow walk in 
