A MOST DISAGREEABLE RESULT. 
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men, armed to the tcetli, and in hot pursuit of a lazy old 
bear, Avho continued his lounging way along the l)oaoh 
without the least indication of consciousness or fear of 
danger. It was exciting in the extreme to every one but 
him. 
Five minutes rolled by in this w’ay, and then we saw' 
the tomtit reach the beach some half-mile below the 
bear, wdieu the three hunters hastily landed, hauled her 
u]} well clear of the water and concealed themselves 
behind a huge boulder of granite which was distant some 
twenty feet from the wniter and about the same distance 
from the edge of the hill-side bushes. It w^as, in fact, 
situated exactly in the centre of the beach at low'-water, 
and the trunk of a fallen tree that had rolled dowm from 
the hill-side connected it with said hill-side bushes. Had 
they had both time and material at their command, it 
would have been impossible to have constructed a more 
admirable place of ambush. 
This was all very favourable; but there w'as one con- 
sideration W’hich acted as a pow'erful draw'baek to their 
hopes: they had but one round of ammunition each, 
(all this we learned subsequently,) and neither knife or 
revolver in the party. What if it should come to a hand- 
to-hand struggle ? Nevertheless, thej’' shut their eyes to 
such a disagreeable result and entered boldly upon the 
desperate game of waylaying a ferocious animal wdiose 
weight w'as certainlj'’ not less than sixteen hundred 
pounds, and whose kind — like the grizzly of our own 
Western mountains — had often been knowui to hug a man 
or horse to death after receiving a dozen w'ounds any 
one of which w'ould have disabled an ordinary animal. 
