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CHAPTER XXI. 



THE GRIZZLY BE^R. 



We passed many hours of excitement, and 

 some, perchance, of danger, in the wilder por- 

 tions of our country ; and at times memory re- 

 cals adventures we can now hardly attempt to 

 describe ; nor can we ever again feel the enthu- 

 siasm such scenes produced in us. Our readers 

 must therefore imagine the startling sensations 

 experienced on a sudden and quite unexpected 

 face-to-face meeting with the savage grizzly bear 

 — the huge shaggy monster disputing possession 

 of the wilderness against all comers, and threat- 

 ening immediate attack 1 



Whilst in a neighbourhood where the grizzly 

 bear may possibly be hidden, the excited nerves 

 will cause the heart's pulsations to quicken if 

 but a startled ground-squirrel run past; the 

 sharp click of the lock is heard, and the rifle 

 hastily thrown to the shoulder, before a second 

 of time has assured the hunter of the trifling 

 cause of his emotion. 



But although dreaded alike by white hunter 



