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at times we were in plain sight of him, 
but worked along the alders whenever 
we could make use of them as a screen. 
At last we saw we had to make a very 
I strong effort to get to the head of the 
range before him, and whenever pos¬ 
sible, we jogged along to make distance. 
We now came to where we had to make 
our climb to head him off, and I thought 
of days long past when I was an oars¬ 
man and how one had to punish himself 
when he thought he couldn’t take an¬ 
other stroke, hut he just had to keep 
sticking them in, or quit. 
We finally finished that 500-yard 
climb, and when Oscar said, “Shoot 
quick, point blank,” I threw myself on 
the ground. I was “all in” and my bel¬ 
lows were working overtime. 
I had already adjusted my strap on 
my arm, but I raised my sight another 
100 yards as my judgment said he was 
nearer 175 yards away than 100, and 
fired just as he was going down into a 
gully and his head and shoulders had 
disappeared, leaving me only a snap shot 
at his rump. My judgment as to distance 
was good as I saw him go down and 
disappear from sight. I just stayed 
down on the ground and waited to see 
where he would again show himself; 
and when he did he was about 150 yards 
off, going away from me on three legs. 
My first shot had broken his left hip. 
I fired my second shot and knocked him 
down again. At the third he went down 
once more but the fourth I missed. I 
now saw he was pretty sick, so I took 
Oscar’s 8 millimeter Mannlicher and 
fired again but missed. Then I hit him 
twice after I had raised the elevation 
100 yards. That brought him to a stop, 
but when we went up to him we found 
he was still alive so I put one through 
his neck, and that ended‘him. 
It certainly was a revelation to me to 
see what a lot of lead those big fellows 
will take if you do not hit them in the 
right place. 
I noticed that Oscar had great respect 
for them even when to all appearances 
they were dead, due probably to the fol¬ 
lowing incident which he related to me: 
Some years previous he was out after 
bear and came up to a big fellow, and, 
with one shot put him down, and when 
he went up to him he put his gun down 
some ten feet away against some alders. 
The bear was below an embankment, 
some fifteen feet high, and he had just 
taken his knife from his belt to skin 
him out when he heard a twig snap and, 
looking up, he saw another large bear 
looking at him. He stood petrified, not 
daring to make a move for his gun, and 
the bear finally went off. As soon as 
he was out of sight Oscar grabbed his 
gun, and as the bear was r. further 
away than 50 yards, he put a shot into 
his neck, and killed him. 
After looking him over he thought he 
would skin out the other one first, and 
going back to him, found he had dis¬ 
appeared. That gave him a good 
fright, for he knew then that the second 
bear had saved his life, for had he put 
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