Hjinting American Big Game 



when it comes to drawing bears to a car- 

 cass. Of course, this is not always a sure 

 way ; for the bear, if alarmed or disturbed, 

 will only visit the carcass at night, and 

 then, if the hunter is persistent and de- 

 termined to get a shot, he may expect 

 many weary hours of watching from a 

 friendly pine. 



I think I hear the reader say. What's 

 the fun in shooting a bear from a tree ? 

 there is no risk in that. True, there is 

 not; but it is when you come down from 

 your perch that you may not feel quite so 

 safe, as with limbs benumbed from cold 

 and lack of circulation you climb down, 

 knowing perhaps that several watchful 

 pairs of eyes or cunning nostrils are study- 

 ing your movements. Involuntarily your 

 thoughts travel in the vein of your gloomy 

 surroundings as you go stumbling on your 

 way to camp : What if the bear should 

 prefer live goose-flesh to dead horse ? 



One spring morning I was knocking 

 around under the base of the mountains, 

 and found myself, about dinner-time, so 

 close to Colonel Pickett's cosey log cabin, 

 that I determined to pay him a long-post- 

 poned visit. After an ample repast, in- 

 cluding some delicious home-made butter, 

 which I had not tasted for a month, 



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