The Red Cloud chief., 1881-02-10

he came IN our camp one night. II
~as moonlighs We slept In 4 hni
built Of the frAgran. fr-t-ea branches
W. had been cit all day hunting. and
were enjoying the profound sleep o.
youth health and WEAKNESS We
might have smelled him. but we did
not. We might have heard the even
measured SLAP. slap. Of his gresi iai
feet, N he rolled along up the narrow
valley between the two ridges covered
with lofty pines. that threw thsif shad-
ows across the slVtf bet of the moon
light; bat ~e were deep in sleep. and
FAR. far away in most delightful dreams.
We had a solitary dog-eur species
who might have warned us By his bark
Of the approaching monster; but he
quietly stole out oi the fragran, arbor
and ran away. He CAME. lie saw He
gobbled up all the bacon We had left
Tie ate IL like A gentleman-a mouthful
Of leess, which grew nesr by. alterna-
ting 4 mouthful of driei swine. The
bacon weighed about fitty-iwo pounds
the leeks probably half rs much. lie
left US only the ring Of the fitch. moth
ing more. He tackled our bread-skillet
and swept il clean. He o r open our
potato sack and devoured all the on
tents. and he didn't leave 4 bean in the
pot. There was a bag Of sugar. He
got that. also. There was n keg of
"redeye' which he failed 10 get. or
this story might have a different ending.
We got up. az usual. atthe rising Of the
sun. We hal nothing bu; "redeye'
aud coffee. without sugar, for breakfast.
He left u. his tracks in the ashes ui our
campfire. | have often tried 10 make
my friends understand how big a
grizzly's tYacks can be. but none Of
them believed me when ! said eighteen
inches long and nine "ide. nor yet
when | came down 10 fifteen and six
and one-half. We did not measure
them. but they looked as big as the first
figures. ,
The camp was hungry. mad and
thirsting for The man who
suffered he was an old deer-hunter-
remarked. after q sullen silence of
about n hour:
"B-b-boys. Live go-go-got 1t, sh-
shu-shure.
We said: WHAT"
"Th-th-the p-p-P-lan to k~e-ke-ketch
that ar b-b-bar."
He had, too. lie took the log-chain
from an OK wagon. 1t was sixty feet
long and very strong and heavy. He
fastened it to a block of wood that
night have weighed one hundred and
fifty pounds. He rode fifty miles and
secured a large spring-trap used Tor
grizzlies. We tracked VI robber friend
to his LARA patch of dense chaparral
covering the slope OF a mountain.
Astounding in wild plums and berries.
There We set the trap. batting it with
the remnant of 4 ham borrowed from a
neighDor. Bruin slept for a day and
night. The second night he came out
and got his foot in il. Next morning
we went out. all armed, to see how the
scheme was working. There was a
path through that chaparral thicket
twenty feet wide. the shrubs cut as
close as the good mower cuts grass.
We followed il. till we heard "A fearful
roaring and growing. We had him.
His flight hal been cut short by the
doubling of the block and chain around
q tree, and there he was, ready for our
guns. know very well that an officer
of the Forthwith Bengalese Regiment
would call this a cowardly way to hunt,
if the animal were a tiger. But a griz-
zly is & much more dangerous animal
than a tiger when wounded, and ten
times as hard to kill as tiger or lion.
The man whpgoes into 4 tbicket after
a wounded grizzly is a fool, who hasnot
far TO go to reach IN asylum for the in
sane. We did better. We chained our
dangerous game and then at our leisure
shot him tn death. His weight was
never ascertained. The carcass was
enormous. And this is the way we got
compensation for our stolen bacon
San Francisco Chronicle.