sight of a bear. Six of them — two grizzHes and one bL^ck 

 bear, each with a cub — were reported to be feeding on 

 berries less than a quarter of a mile away from the station. 

 In a very few minutes three shots were heard, then five 

 in rapid succession, then one shot, and we divined that a 

 bear had surely fallen. Excitement ran high and all were 

 on tip-toe of expectation, until two hunters returned — 

 without the bear. 



It took some time for the truth to gleam through the 

 glamour surrounding that early morning encounter with 

 bruin, and here it is. A railway employee had located 

 the bears and at dajdight crept down among the berry 

 bushes where the}' were expected to feed, and patiently 

 waited with the determination of bringing one down. 

 The track here makes a sharply defined horse shoe curve, 

 and on one arm of this curve is a snow shed a mile long. 

 One of our hunters had climbed on top of this shed and 

 walked along for half its length when he saw a bear come 

 out in an open patch seven hundred yards away. Now, 

 he couldn't get off the shed without going to the end of 

 it and b}' doing this he feared he might lose sight of the 

 bear. So to lose no time he commenced firing. 



The other hunter saw with his glass a man down in 

 the berry patch and thought hunter number one was 

 shooting at him. The man in the berry patch seemed to 

 think so too, and after his ears had listened to the close 

 whistle of seven or eight bullets he emerged from the 

 bushes and walking up to hunter number one opened up 

 on him a battery of Western words that fairly smoked 

 with brimstone. I'll omit them here, only saying that 

 thev conveved the idea that the bullets had nearlv hit 



