t n ping <i>"t Hunting in the Slioslwiie 



His first Grizzly. 



It cannot be less than three thousand five 

 hundred feet in height, and, I should fancy, 

 is over a mile along its base. When I 

 first looked up at it, its great dark breast 

 was braided all over with a hundred milky, 

 wavy, flashing waterfalls. For a week we 

 had almost continuous rain ; and these 

 warm showers, for it was July, had has- 

 tened the destruction of the snow-beds on 

 its crown, and down to the valley fell or 



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