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 the brush and lnasie up the bill to7 wards Mr Reavis who not relishing ' cl.jsI go ,!p iin m adjacs5at { of the wounded bear ! : canle in siz { pf i is.a, jrok1d ahollf a:sa Then retssfnz "a. He descended from the tree and

advanced towards the creek to sec the bear climbing the opposite side and making towards the top Of the noun tain, followed by the cubs. He raised the gun and fired again, this time at q cub, which he wounded, but did not stop its flight. He loosened the rope by which he held the dog and let it follow. He found the blood of the old bear and the cub by which he followed them for about mile and then rs turned home, as darkness had come on.
 The dog did not come home that night and the next morning he saddled burro and went to the summit in search of the dog and bear Striking the trail of blood he followed it a mile along the summit and there he found the dog whose rope bad got fastened to tho brush. He followed the trail further and cut across to head it off, by pass in the high peaks overlook ing Pinto creek. Upon arriving at good point of observation he heard loud grooming, a most distressful sound, coming nearer and nearer. He waited for it to come up on the bench about thirty feet distant, in the low brush It was the same wounded bear with her two cubs. Upon reaching the bench she smelled her enemy and put her nose up in the air and sat looking at him, Another shot was fired at the breast, but it evidently hurt without seriously wounding her. She jumped up, went back over the bill and rolled down MT. Reavis went out on the bench and looked down and saw both the cubs, crying pitifully. Another shot was fired, but too low, and it only cut the dirt under the bear.
 The strangest scene then presented itself that he had ever witnessed. For getful of her own suf1erings, the bear caught her cubs and drew them to her breast as if to protect them; one of them pulled itself away and she reach- ed for it and hugged both to her breast so human like, while the great eyes appealed with strange human-like ap- pearance, for mercy. So striking was this appeal that Mir Reavis dropped his gun and could not shoot again. It was like murder to do so.
 The bear then put her cubs down and went on through the brush. He kept on the trail to drop below her and head her off near the point he intend 1 ed to camp, as night was then near at hand. 2He arrived at the canyon he had selected for this purpose, which was intersected ! by lateral canyon at this point, and hitched the burro to walnut | tree. He was sure the bear would come that way as he could still hear the groans, so he went little way up the opposite hillside and lay down to sleep. The night was quite dark and all he could see from his position was the white spot on the burro's nose. He expected the animal would make some noise if the bear appeared, which would be the signal of its approach. No sleep came to his eyelids, and he could still hear occasional groans, then a rustic of the leaves not far away, and again close by and suddenly one of the cubs came over the point where he was lying, and ill it's flight jumped squarely upon him.
 This was something more realistic than nightmare, and he jumped down from his position to the tree where his burro was tied. In doing so he passed close to the bank ol the creek and was almost para lyzcd to hear an unearthly snort and to feel the hot breath of the huge bear not over foot awayl A mo ment later and he was up the tree where he remained for three hours.
 The next morning he tracked the bear and followed it until 1t stopped bleeding. It had widowed in Che sand occasionally and built several houses to lie down as is usual whe1
 the bear is about to die It evidently did die, but he dld not pursue it fur ther to make sure of the fact