BEAR-SHOOTING IN TRANSYLVANIA. 403 
We were standing on a road where there was not too much 
room for shooting, when just at the beginning of the beat a 
very large roebuck came to me ; but I of course allowed it to 
pass, and soon afterwards two shots were fired in rapid 
succession from the right wing of the line of guns. During 
the last minutes of the drive I also heard something moving 
rapidly about between my brother-in-law and myself, and 
immediately the beaters made a terrific noise. Two wolves 
were there which had probably winded the guns and pre- 
ferred breaking back to going forward, although the beaters 
were very close together. 
On hastening to the right wing I learnt that first Count N. 
and afterwards Baron J. B. had let drive at a bear. Near the 
place where the first shot had been fired we found a great 
deal of blood, and close behind the line of guns lay the bear 
itself, a dark-coloured animal, from two to three years old, 
quite dead, with both balls planted in its shoulder. 
For the second beat we took a rather higher and thinner 
wood, and again the guns stood on a somewhat narrow path. 
In the middle of this drive a tolerably large grey bear again 
came towards Count N., but changing its direction before he 
could shoot at it, passed in front of Baron J. so covered by 
the bushes that he was unable to fire. At last it sprang 
across the path near young Herr v. M., who gave it a ball, 
but unfortunately not in a fatal place. 
Towards the end of the beat a large bear broke by Count T. 
at the narrowest place, where the thickets on each side only 
left a small lane, so that he could get nothing but a very un- 
certain shot, and probably either missed the animal altogether 
or only wounded it slightly. 
We now determined to try the beat into which the bear . 
had crossed. This was the broadest on that long chain of 
heights, and was connected with the great forest itself by a 
somewhat thinly wooded ridge. On this ridge the guns were 
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