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contest between both animals the grizzly would prove the 

 victor. Sportsmen, unless provided with heavy rifles, would 

 therefore do well to beware of it, for there is not a year I 

 suppose that some men are not killed by it, owing, principally, 

 to their own fool hardiness in attacking it with light weapons, 

 or without the aid of companions. 



