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attend to the horse, and started away ui search of my 

 choice game — bears. 



I went from place to place without finding the trace of 

 a single bear, and hunted until I became tired ; when, 

 being three or four miles from my boy and the horse, I 

 began to direct my course toward the camp. On my way 

 in, I found where a bear had that morning commenced to 

 feed on acorns ; and, being certain he would return again 

 in the evening, for there were plenty of acorns on the 

 ground, I went to the camp, where I found the boy and 

 horse all right. 



Telling William that we would move our camp nearer 

 to the place where the bear would come to feed, we led 

 our horse to within half a mile of the feeding-ground, hob- 

 bled him in another fine patch of grass, made a fire under 

 a great spreading hemlock, and laid ourselves down to 

 await the approach of evening. 



The desired hour having at last arrived, we went to the 

 ground ; and as we entered it, I saw a bear coming to his 

 feeding-place , and sucli a looking animal I had never in 

 my life seen. He was long and tall, and his back bowed 



