A LITTLE. BEAR HUN: 
HOOTING an animal through the heart is not always 
S immediate death as some might suppose, for they 
frequently run quite a distance before falling. Often the 
sportsman having made this sure death shot, he may think he 
has missed altogether, as he sees the animal running away to 
some handy cover, where if left to itself and not followed up 
too quickly and noisily, would likely be found handy by in 
the first good hiding chance, lying dead. On the other hand, 
if hastening after it the game hears you now quicker than 
usual, and the wounded animal keeps bounding away through 
the thickest chances as long as any life is left, and likely now 
it escapes the hunter altogether, dropping dead at last, to be 
found by the meat eating fellows (the carnivora) who now 
have a most glorious feast, leaving nothing at last but the 
larger bones of the animal, which are also eaten entirely after 
becoming softened by the snows, by a myriad of mice which 
are everywhere living in the forest. If we could shoot the 
bear directly through the centre of his skull or immediately 
behind its ear (and all other large game as well) it would be 
the proper shot, humane, and the most creditable, for this is 
