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in making a bag. In bear districts most of the Bonder 

 employ a hunter in their service, who gets a certain 

 payment from them, together with the government 

 reward. 



It is toilsome and severe work; for it not only 

 necessitates being early up in the country when it is 

 still bitterly cold, but the fatigue that must necessarily 

 be undergone, added to the wretched accommodation 

 and poor fare to be met with in outlying districts, 

 renders it a question whether the contingency of a bear 

 will repay the trouble. On the other hand, it is more 

 than probable that an ardent sportsman, capable of 

 undergoing all the above disagreeables, would attain 

 the object of his desires. And perhaps his best plan 

 would be to make the acquaintance of some Bonde 

 in the summer, and make arrangements beforehand 

 with him to lay out Odde, i.e., the carcase above spoken 

 of, and then come out at the preconcerted time. 



There is no doubt but that bears are shot in the 

 summer, but it is only occasionally, I am inclined to 

 think; and, at all events, the Englishman's chance 

 of sport among them at this season is infinitely more 

 remote. Still, if a man is capable of undergoing a 

 great deal of hard work, and can digest an enormous 

 amount of disappointment and vexation of spirit, giving 

 himself entirely up to this one absorbing object, he 

 may possibly (if he is fortunate enough to secure the 



