H2 A SPORTING PARADISE 



While Bauman was making ready supper, it 

 being already dark, his companion began to 

 examine the tracks more closely, and soon took 

 a brand from the fire to follow them up, where 

 the intruder had walked along a game trail after 

 leaving the camp. When the brand flickered 

 out, he returned and took another, repeating his 

 inspection of the footprints very closely. Coming 

 back to the fire, he stood by it a minute or two, 

 peering out into the darkness, and suddenly 

 remarked : " Bauman, that bear has been walking 

 on two legs." Bauman laughed at this, but his 

 partner insisted that he was right, and upon again 

 examining the tracks with a torch, they certainly 

 did seem to be made by but two paws, or feet. 

 However, it was too dark to make sure. After 

 discussing whether the footprints were possibly 

 those of a human being, and coming to the 

 conclusion that they could not be, the two men 

 rolled up in their blankets, and went to sleep 

 under the lean-to. 



At midnight Bauman was awakened by some 

 noise, and sat up in his blankets. As he did 

 so, his nostrils were struck by a strong, wild- 

 beast odour, and he caught the loom of a 

 great body in the darkness at the mouth of the 



