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EAMBLES AFTER SPORT. 



was now transferred to a large round iron pot with 

 a cover, about the size of a one hundred pound shot. 

 'Ihe embers were nearly all scraped out, leaving a thick 

 layer at the bottom, and the pot dropped in ; the cover 

 was put on, and then the hot embers heaped up over the 

 sides and top, and over the whole thing a shovelful 

 of dirt. After a time the lid of the pot was lifted 

 up, and a piece of clean stick was pushed into 

 the bread; when the stick came out with no bread 

 adhering to it the loaf was baked, exhumed, and finally 

 eaten. It is the nearest approach to the Chinaman^ s 

 recipe of burning down a house to properly roast a pig, 

 and in its way is equally good. If you don^t believe 

 it, try it in your own garden. 



Next morning, our Indian hunter turned us out. of bed 

 at some unearthly hour with the news that one of the 

 deer which we had shot last day and left behind us as a 

 bait had been carried off by someone or something, and 

 the colonel opined it was " bars.^' All was now excite- 

 ment, and many the cautions and grave the advice I 

 received from the colonel in case I got near the critter. 

 In fact, on reflection, I could scarcely see how I could 

 well avoid getting chawed up. However, as I had twelve 

 cartridges in my pocket, and had been well in for the 

 5ft. 2in. at Rugby, I didn^t feel much alarmed, and 

 besides I mentally parodied Nelson^s saying, who ever 

 heard of an Englishman being killed by a bear in Oregon? 



I took the bottoms this time, and tramped about for 

 an hour or two ; I saw lots of tracks and occasionally 

 lying up places, but no bear. I gradually got further 

 and further away, till at last I got tired. 1 saw lots of 

 deer, but didn^t like to fire for fear of disturbing bruin, 

 who, of course, according to my guide, was always close 



