270 OLD BEAR KILLED. 



been little else than skin and bone. Every 

 snow bear, -svitliout exception, passes the 

 winter months in a half torpid state, but 

 many of the black ones remain roaming 

 about, particularly after a good acorn 

 season. 



No wild animal is, I consider, so quickly 

 and easily tamed as the young of the snow 

 bear. I remember at one time particularly 

 wantmg a couple, and went out for a few 

 days purposely in search of them. 



The first day, I found an old he-bear, 

 which I wounded and lost. On the next, I 

 killed a she-bear, but she had no cubs. On 

 the third, I was more fortunate, for, eaily in 

 the morning, I came suddenly on the mother 

 of a family, with her two little ones, just the 

 size I wanted. They were not more than 

 fifty yards' distant, and a single bullet 

 sufficed to roll the old lady over ; she fell 

 some hundred feet into the ravine beneath, 

 which was full of snow. 



One man had accompanied me, and we 

 immediately set about catching the young 



