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THE WORLD OF ANIMAL LIFE 



Scenes, tells us how the Siberians whom he visited are accustomed 

 to hunt the bear. During the summer the bear is seldom long in 

 the same place, and is therefore very difficult to track. But in the 



Large Grizzly, guarding the carcass ot a deer, which he has covered with rubbish 



winter he is often discovered asleep in his lair, and the peasant who 

 finds him sells the secret of his hiding-place to some well-to-do 

 sportsman. The latter collects a party of hunters, who surround 

 poor Bruin in his hiding-place. " It is thus", says Herr Brehm, 

 " that the great majority of the bears are secured, and to good 

 shots there is little danger. In summer and autumn they track the 

 bear with small dogs, and while these bait him on all sides, the 

 sportsman seizes a good opportunity for a telling shot. Or he may 

 use the bear-spear, as the bold Ostiaks do, and charge the animal. 

 Or else he may wind birch-bark several times round his left arm. 



