September, 1921 
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he dropped back and made a dash for 
the dog which took him several feet 
away from the tree. There they had 
it round and round for several min- 
utes, but did not get far enough away 
from the tree to give me the ghost 
of a chance to get down to get my gun. 
After a while he got back to the same 
old place again. 
This was getting exasperating and I 
longed for that gun more than I had 
ever wanted anything in all my life. 
I thought to myself: “You old repro- 
bate, if I can ever manage to get hold 
of that gun I’ll make it hot for you.” 
I kept thinking of that cord and hook 
and all at onc.e an idea entered my 
head what to do, and I wondered that 
I had not thought of it before. Why 
not make a string out of my overalls 
and a hook out of a limb? No one 
can realize how elated I was when this 
thought struck my mind, and I imme- 
diately went to work to put it into exe- 
cution. 
I took my hunting knife and ripped 
my pants clear up, so I could tear off 
long strips, which I tied together, mak- 
ing a long string. Then I cut off a 
limb and made a hook, and I was 
ready. I climbed down again and made 
all the noise I could, and sure enough, 
the grizzly tried to come up again. 
Trailor dived into him again, and down 
he went and made a dash after him for 
several yards, and when Trailor began 
to circle around him and get at his 
hams he backed up against another 
tree, and there he stayed. 
I did not move now for fear he 
would come back, but I began to let 
the hook down towards the gun, which 
was lying there in plain sight with 
the lever down. Slowly but surely I 
let the string down to the ground be- 
side the lever. I gave it a little jerk 
and it seemed to go under the lever, 
and I pulled up, but it didn’t catch. I 
dropped it again along side of the lever, 
and this time, as I slowly brought it up, 
it hooked into the lever, and the reader 
can perhaps imagine my feelings when 
I began to see that gun coming up 
towards me. Once it caught against 
a limb, but I let it down again and 
swung it over a little, and I soon had 
it in my hands. 
I will not attempt to tell you how 
I felt when I got hold of that gun. 
I was just simply wild. Now the next 
thing was to see what was the matter 
with it. I examined it and soon found 
that the trouble lay in a faulty cart- 
ridge. From some cause or other there 
had not been powder enough put in the 
shell and the bullet had been pushed 
too far back, so that when the shell 
came into the cartridge bed it allowed 
the next cartridge in the magazine to 
come down too far, and the cartridge 
bed couldn’t rise. I soon had it out 
and a fresh cartridge in the chamber, 
ready for business, and I was just 
straightening myself out so as to get 
in a good position to shoot from when 
the bear came towards the tree again. 
I thought to myself, “Old fellow, come 
ahead; I’ll fool you this time.” 
I was considerably lower now and 
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