The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-09

my rifle, kneeling on the track, looking down.
and close to the projecting rock, behind which
l could spring If l should fail to bring down
anything coming up, and in few minutes a
three-quarter grown bear came shambling up
the pain, followed by q yapping dog of the
village, on whom he turned eyerv now and
then. lie did not see me at first, and Iwaited
until he was within twenty Yards. then his
little eyes caught sight of me and plistened
with rage. He uttered loud growls. and re-
doubled his pace but the bead of nv
foresight was on his nose. I
pulled, and the animal turned head over
heels like rabbit. My coolie handed me INV
smooth-bore, and / hurried up, but he was
quite dead, and the village dog was worrying
his carcase. The shell bullet had struck lust
under the left eye, having grazed along his
nose (my aim had been the point of the snout),
and apparently exploded at once, as all that
side of the head was blown open, and the ear
hanging down. By the time | had done ex-
aiming and measuring the brute, some of the
beaters appeared on the track | had come, so
there was nothing more to expect from that
quarter. Leaving my gun coolie to point out
to the shikarees where my first bear had
fallen over | hurried on to see what the
rajah had done. On arriving, saw the
rajah's shikaree, Omrah Deem, lying down,
looking very sick, and good deal of blood
about; the raiah's rifle, with the barrel
bent to an angle of forty-fve degrees,
and half-grown bear lying dead on the
path. 1t appears that the young bear had
appeared first when the rajah had knocked it
overwith the double shot, and that Omrah Deem
had run out with kookree to settle it, and
drag it off the path. Whilst so employed a
great she-bear had come up suddenly, and
clawed his back; the raiah had run out with
his rifle, and afraid to fire for fear of hitting
his man, had crammed the muzzle into the
animals mouth. He then, as he affirmed,
pulled the trigger with the muzzle pointing at
its head, but expect the bullet must have
gone out of its cheek however, the brute had
bent the barrel nearly double, and then scut-
tied off up the path, and must have gone
into the cave before l arrived there. Soon
afterwards another bear had come up the
path at which the rajah had fired, with what
effect he knew not as the beast had turned
run down the path again. Some of the
beaters said they had seen another bear
get up to the caves by some track we had
not known of; this was probably the bear
that the raiah had fired at last. We now all
moved up to the caves to see what we could
do for the bears inside. There was no wind
stirring, so fire was hopeless to smoke them
out; however, by the fire made we got some
hot tea and chupatties and our coolies in
dulged in the social hubble-bubble, made of
a cocoa-nut, which was handed from one to
another. Omrah Deem began to feel rather
faint from the loss of blood from the scratches
on his back, so we made litter for him, and
determined to return to camp, leaving shi-
karee and two coolies to watch the cave and
how we got the two bears out must relate at
another time. We were fairly pleased with
our success, having bagged three out of FIVE
bears seen, though certainly only one was
full-grown; and if it had not been for poor
Omrah Deems back we should have had
very jolly morning. g.-FrOm Temple Bar.