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: are collies. It does not require a big dog or a powerful dog 
for the work, for no dog is big enough to close with, whilst any 
dog is big enough to frighten, a black bear. 1 remember upon 
one occasion seeing three dogs, two small Pomeranians and 
_ a cross-bred setter, run a two-year-old black bear to bay on the 
_ ford of a river. The dogs had to swim, but by standing up 
the bear could rest upon firm ground, and keep his arms 2nd 
jaws free for fighting above water. 
‘The bear had already received a shot in the stomach be- 
fore the dogs tackled him, but when they ran him to bay he 
_ Seemed strong and well. Neither dogs nor bear took any 
_ motice of me, though I was standing up to my knees in the 
water of the ford within a few paces of them ; and in five 
_ minutes the fight was over without interference on my part. 
_ At first the bear cuffed the dogs as they swam up to him, as a 
_ man might cuff who knew nothing of hitting out from the 
_ Shoulder, and once he took the big dog in his jaws and went 
right under with him. However, the setter came up smiling, 
_and shortly afterwards poor old Bruin was floating down stream, 
his head under water, and the dogs tugging with impunity at 
his flanks. 1 suppose that this bear weighed less than 200 Ibs. 
; Captain Baldwin in his excellent book on the game of 
Bengal describes two kinds of bears: U. adiatus and U. tibet- 
anus ; and almost everything that he says of the Indian black 
: bear would apply equally well to U. americanus (even to his 
_ weakness for ye//ow raspberries), except that U. /adiatus appears 
_ to fight upon occasion, whereas U. americanus 1s hardly ever 
_ known to fight even in self-defence, and has never, as far as I 
know, been accused of making an unprovoked assault upon a 
_ human being. 
Baldwin seems to have been somewhat surprised when he dis- 
covered that the Indian black bear fed upon carrion. No one in 
America would be surprised at anything which UW. americanus 
considered good for him. I have seen a cub take rotten melon, 
piece of meat, a cake of chocolate, a plug of T. & B. tobacco, 
the end of a half-smoked cigar for breakfast. Being 
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