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careful tha, he is we'll hidden. Also tha, he has

know II when this sort Of thing happens Having
fixed himself. he has nothing TO do save wait lie
has shot bears under these circumstances when
there was no moon and the surface Of the snow was
lighted only by the stars, but his eyes are not 81
good as they once were and he now prefers bright
moonlight The barrel Of his rife is painted a dull
brown so that il will not throw of glitter and In
tcrierc with his aim
"Old John" says that bear while in some
respects an intelligent animal never has brain
enough 10 know that the deer or antelope lying
so inri,ingly in its pathway could not have cut
| Itself open and lain down Ia die Once the car.
casS Is found the giant rObbcr proceeds imme
diatcly TO seize it, Sometimes he stops then and
there To take meal but II not especially hun
cry is apt Ia pick il UP and start of with it, When
this happens and no fair shot is exposed the hun
Ter must do the best he can and depend upon so
| irritating the animal with wounds that II will
turn to face him. In this position head or chest
shot with the half inch bullet is always possible,
and, with a man Of this hunters skill, means
death \ grizzly hit fairly in front, Just where
| the neck joins the body. exactly In the centre
OF the chest, or just behind the shoulder. II the
buffalo gun" be used, may not drop, but will
be so sickened that he will not charge Instead
| he will turn and make In shambng way for
shelter, often dying before he has gone fifty yards
Al the same time II the bullet be placed
| too far back, through the ribs or abdo-
men or TANKS the animal will NOT be ser,ouslv
wounded and will nut lin as strong A apbt as
| II uninjured On ono occasion "o,d .Jobn" sbo,
two erzzles with explosive brets NJ 8ftv calibre
| but the results did not encourape him The
animals went dead all right enough, but they
were both hit in the body and the hides and flesh
were so torn TO lose much of their value There
is no doubt however. that tho safest thing TO
| on the grizzly would be an explosive bullet OF
that colibre So armed even the tvro need fee,
no special alarm
II has been the custon NJ scient,sta IN assert
that America contains inst thrce kinds of hears
and no more the hl,ck the grizzly and tho no,sr
Men ont here who b.r. snept tbeir lives In
tho wood. and con,,, ard r..r ,,.r,. -, ,ho,,
tho sc,rs NJ tho cb,oo Inov NJ nina d;1e,ent vi.
reties the back Tho brovn tho grizzly the
"si,vc, fin ,h. "h.,d f.cc +" or ",oacb h,cL tho
cinnamon the niro b.,, and tho cane be., ~ tho
lo,ye, sw,mnv GALLEY. rbese mon have The vo,d
of tho na,urois,s that tho ap;ma,s do NOT owls,
but tbcv maintain tbeir nositon with di9eren,ly
colored skins and dger.ntlv sbsncd teeth hnd
claws ,s ,,hihi,s Adding The we'll Known bo,.,
hear and Tho ,nf,.ouer, Noun, G. F,i,s hc.,
to the ,ist we have clcven dis,irct x,reties nm
this continent With ,rayhe nore IN bcer t,or
with IN. o,con,on - 40 Ilios h.or ~ ,rhiot,
M, moro than ton Inv. hsen slair tho min, hon,
10 be 10, g, and 10. @, ,pown ~
II lives along the upper edges NJ the timber line
on the western edges and never under env cir
curstopces comes into tho yslleys wben n;rops
are p,entiful II is f,t and when ,bey are scarce
T., is moor but 1, Lnous mn otb., food aud s.eIs
for no other II 10 very sbv though a yicious
fighter cnougb when cor,ered aud Weighs not
10 exceed 200 mounds The nose is nointed md
III. c,aws a,e lone and daenI, cr,yed h.iro, d;o.
tipc,Iv the claws ot a ,,ee cIimhe, The head is
,,,
animal 10 tho nos, worthless rcr,her ~ tho g,cst
besr family, b.;ng a soi,ed p,s,isb. ve,,o,v b,u,s
with a nclt tbe, is worth nothing cave ,s a curl
ositv The flesh is strinpv and rank and whollv
ipcdible having an oily feel and smell
The contention NJ the mon ~ The schools
that the h,eck bear and the brown boar arc NJ IN.
same species does not seem TO he horne out bv tho
facts The brown hear ia o,wavs larger and
stronger as well 40 fercer and the two varieties
never interbreed nor do they associate No man
ever saw a black and brown hear constantly TO-
gether nor ever will and the cubs are always of the
one hue or the other The brown hear il ,o .ome
extent flesh enter but the black hear will ca, Aesh
only when urged nv extreme huneer II Ia timor-
GUS and while Il will fq hi dogs will not offer hat
tie To man unless driven crazy nv A wound IN the
head II Ia a seeker after the nests Of wild bees
and hint of the honey seems a,vavs IN lineer IN
its flesh II ia found in the hills NJ noy,h.s.t.,n
Mexico plenteously but is not common In this
part of the great Rocky range The mountain
variety ia something I,nkieY md mo,e sctir.
than its brother which lives in the lowlands hut a
is not any more dangerous Former Governor
pscheco of California 10 xeu known In the West
from his fondness for ropinp these hears and dr,p
eipe them To death The snort is snec,acu,ar and
calculated IN make A lasting impression unon ten
derfoo, but there is little danger in Il
II hos been the b,b, NJ writer. n c,.ss ,h. "h,d
face or roach hack the SILVER tin and the "cin
namon" as grizzlies vet an old hunter will Laugh
at the statement He Knows tb.m IN be d;fe,er,
and the variation in them is SO marked that he
will name the species to which an animal belongs
at distance of half mile. Like the brown and
black bears, these varieties do not interbreed or
associate. They keep 10 themselves and il is not
often that individuals of the differing kinds are
found upon the same ten square miles of territory.
The bald face" or roach back"-the animal is |
called a bald face" in California and a roach
back" out hercis practically identical with the |
true grizzly in coloIation and habits hut will aver