Himting Atnerican Big Game 



watch from, not a bush or rock to screen 

 one while awaiting a shot. To cut a long 

 story short, I watched that bait every af- 

 ternoon and evening for a week ; and 

 though it was visited every night, I never 

 got a sight of the prowlers. Bears will 

 very often, when going to a carcass, take 

 the same trail, but when leaving wander 

 off in almost any direction. Taking ad- 

 vantage of this, and being satisfied that 

 they were up in the timber through the 

 day, we hunted for their trail, and found it 

 on an old wood-road that led through the 

 timber. To make sure, we placed the hind 

 quarters of one of the steers just on the 

 edge of the forest, and awaited develop- 

 ments. That night the bear found it, and, 

 dragging it off, carefully cached it ; so we 

 determined to watch here. 



I was much disappointed, however, as 

 the daylight faded, to confess that if I was 

 to get a shot it would have to be in the 

 dark ; so as soon as I found I could not 

 see to shoot with any degree of safety, I 

 got up in a pine-tree that commanded the 

 road and was just over the bait. It was 

 weary work watching; and, to make it still 

 more uncomfortable, a heavy thunder-storm 

 swept by, first pelting one with hail, then 

 a deluge of rain and snow. 



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