The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-08-20
THE xxoL1sHMAN AND THE BEAR.
How . Grizzly Dinsd Upon the Lunch Of q
British Sportsman.
fBoston Herald.1

LEADvILLE, Col, July 10.-The ether day
young Englishman started for the noun
tains to hunt until he should. find a grizzly.
de had gun carrying 100 grains of pow
der. He had killed foxes in the old country,
and shot sage hens and jack rabbits here.
Clearly he was not the man to grow timid at
the sight of clumsy bear. About noon,
tired with climbing, hot and exhausted, "the
duke" as we had nicknamed him, sat down
on stone to rest and eat his lunch. He was
fearfully tired and sore, and intended to take
refreshing nap as soon as he had finished
his meal. just as he was raising the first
morsel to his mouth, the duke heard loud
crashing in the underbrush behind him.
Inc sound was some distance away. He
Joyfully took his rifle, and, with some groans
OF fatigue rushed into the bushes. Suddenly
ne paused. All sound froze in his throat.
MS movement were paralyzed. Twenty feet
from him stood brownish creature nearly
| seven feet high. 1t was standing ON its hind
legs, with its fore ones folded, shifting the air
right and left. What particularly started
the duke into frigid unconsciousness was the
size Of the creatures claws. He had never
heard read, or seen anything half so horribly
provocative of quaking.
"Egad, you know" said the duke, "when
heard the animal shifting for me my liver
turned whito just made bolt for one OF
| those aspens, and before / had breathed
| twice / was up to the branches tired as !
| was
| This statement is rendered the more re-
markable by the fact that the quaking aspen
is a tree as bare and straight for the first
| 20 feet as mast. The grizzly content
ed itself with eating the dukes lunch and
| trying to break his gun, after which the beal
took the gun up and started off, After the
| To-, 20 10, ILL 60
mon up resolution enough to slide down the
tree. He found his gun not far from tn,
| tree, and ran down the mountain like deer
never stopping until he had reached the pair
| where grizzlies are unknown. The duke'
knees shook that night while he was telling
the story. He is now amply satisfied t.
shoot jack rabbits.
Rocky Mountain goats are very numerous
on the hills. but they have keener sight ever
than antelopes, and can run like the wind
You can scarcely shoot ahead of them. 1t i
possible to get within $50 yards of a herd o
antelopes. One can not approach nearer thai
500 yards to one of these goats. Deer it i
easy to get within shooting distance of Pan
theirs are as hard to kill as grizzlies. n,
matter where you hit them, or how vita
your shot is, there is always life and strength
enough left in them for one mighty bound
and short struggle, sufficient to take you
life if the beast can reach you in the leap
| A grizzly can be killed with shot behinC
the ear or the forequarter. The popula
mistake that bullet between the eyes will
fix it has cost many hunters their lives. TIL
bone there is exceedingly hard and impene
trable. Grizzlies will not attack man, bu
will rather run away from him unless the,
are wounded or desperately hungry. Gin
namon bears will follow man up a tire
and paw him to satisfy their curiosity, with
out contemplating any attack unless, as
generally the case, the frightened fugitiv
precipitates one.