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I had to go around them, and on round- 
ing the first one, I saw an object emerge 
from the next deep wash, and go bound- 
ing through a crack in the wall leading 
up to the next bench above. It was a 
silver-tip of no mean size, but the inter- 
val of exposure was not enough to se- 
cure a shot. I ran forward hoping to 
get a shot before he gained the bench 
above. Arriving at the opening in the 
wall I could not see him on account of 
a sharp angle in the crevice, but I knew 
he was having hard going, by the 
amount of rock that was rolling down. 
It was a rather dangerous undertak- 
ing, but I decided to follow him up this 
steep, narrow incline, rather than take 
chances on his escaping. The rolling 
stones barked my shins, but I reached 
the angle where I could see my trophy 
working hard to gain the bench. He 
was nearly to the top when I braced 
myself against the wall and took a bead 
right at the root of his tail. I had no 
sooner fired than I realized by predica- 
ment. The bear haid ‘ceased his scram- 
bling, and was now gradually slipping 
back. He would tumble down that in- 
cline in half a second, and where would 
I be? Furthermore, he may not be 
dead, and a wounded silver-tip is not 
exactly what one would care to en- 
counter in such close quarters. 
The crevice at this point was some 
three to four feet wide, and the foot- 
ing fairly good on either side, so I 
began to scramble up. I had just about 
reached a point of clearance, when bruin 
took a back summersault headlong 
down the slide; the loose rock under my 
feet gave way and down I went, tear- 
ing more rock, skin, and clothing in my 
frantic efforts to stick. 
ap HE fraction of a second’s difference 
between the bear’s wedging in the 
angle beneath me, and my touching bot- 
tom, was sufficient for me to remain on 
top. I felt myself in an embrace, (not 
fond), with a great mass of fur, and 
I imagined I could feel teeth sinking 
into the tender flesh of my neck. I was 
also conscious of a strong animal odor, 
much like that which emanates from 
the animal tent of a cireus. Of course, 
the reader will understand that all this 
happened in much less time than is re- 
quired in the telling. 
N fact, I don’t remember an instance 
when I ever had so much happen to 
me in such a short space of time. That 
is one time that I must confess to hav- 
ing been scared, my heart was literally 
in my mouth. However, as soon as I 
bounded to my feet, I realized that the 
bear was perfectly harmless, and put- 
ting my hand to my neck where the 
imaginary teeth-marks should have 
been, I found blood, but it was blood 
drawn by the fall, not by any conscious 
act of the bear. 
It will identify you. 
“Well, 
the Don. 
“Yes, but for a minute I thought he 
had me,” I answered. And then of 
course explanations were in order. My 
escapade drawing severe criticism from 
the Don; he explained that I should 
have withheld my fire until I was out 
of the crevice, as the impact of that 
falling body might have crushed the 
life out of me, had I not been able to 
climb high enough to avoid it. I real- 
ized only too well the truth of his 
statements; but as it was I had only 
suffered minor scratches, and torn 
clothing. Jack presently arrived on the 
scene, and everything had to be told 
over again; and I was again subjected 
to severe criticism. 
I see you got him,” voiced 
UR next problem was to get the 
prize out onto more open ground. 
The Don estimated that, the animal 
would weigh in the neighborhood of 
eight hundred pounds, judging by one 
of his own trophies that had been of 
about the same size. However, Jack 
and I were both willing to raise the 
Don’s estimate before we got the ani- 
mal out. There is a saying among 
sportsmen, that, “After you kill the 
game, then the work begins,’ and I 
want to say right now that we all 
heartily concurred in this, ere we had 
the job done. After getting bruin 
down out of that crevice, we decided 
that it was too great a task to remove 
him to camp ,so we took the pelt and 
what meat we could conveniently carry, 
and returned to camp. I carried the 
skin on my horse, and I must say it 
caused him no little amount of worry. 
At first, it was alomst impossible to 
approach him with it, but finally suc- 
ceeded by the aid of a blind. 
We arrived in camp shortly after the 
noon hour and were complimented on 
our success by Ram. We had been in 
camp only a little over twenty-four 
hours, and had secured one bear and 
one deer, both falling to my credit. 
I suggested that it was someone else’s 
turn next, so we planned on a lion hunt 
on the morrow, with the assistance of 
the two dogs. 
As much as I would like to, I am not 
going further with this narrative; as 
this is strictly a bear story, and the 
following events would pertain to lions, 
so it is proper that I should end here. 
I might add, however, that we were in 
camp there just a week, and secured in 
addition to the silver-tip, one brown 
bear, two lions, two lion kittens, taken 
alive, and two deer; each member of 
the party coming in for part of the 
glory. 
That particular region is easily 
reached by motor, and the game is cer- 
tainly there for those who care to go 
after it. 
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