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or rock, I confess I could never quite go a 

 tree. 



There is another way, though, of avoiding 

 the difficulty, which, I think, rather adds to 

 than diminishes the excitement and interest of 

 bait-hunting. That is to let the bear satisfy 

 his suspicions, and get actually at the bait 

 before you make your approach. To do this 

 successfully, one should choose, if possible, 

 two posts of vantage, one at a comparatively 

 long distance — two or three hundred yards — 

 from the bait, to watch from, and the other 

 forty or fifty yards away, to shoot from. 

 These should, of course, be carefully chosen 

 with a view to the lay of the land and the 

 bear's probable approach, and a path between 

 them should then be carefully selected, by 

 which the hunter can steal down to the shoot- 

 ing point as soon as he sees from the watch- 

 ing point that the bear has begun his meal. 

 Then, creeping down on his quarry, one can 

 bring to use all the caution of the still-hunter, 

 and even much of the stalker's skill, while at 

 the final shot he meets his adversary on a fair 

 field. 



I recall a hunt when I tried this arrange- 

 ment, however, which will serve to show the 



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