The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-04

the binoculars, We found they were a she
bear and two cubs. So we made q detour
and came up with them.
my husband had the first shot. He hit
the old bear squarely in the side. Falling
over, the Wounded bear made gallant and
pathetic efforts to shield her cubs from our
rifles. she would bang at them. first with
one paw, then with the other, slapping
them as hard as she could with her waning
strength to make them get on the farther
size Of her.
Now it's your turn said my husband.
Il fired, hitting her in the head right
through the ear. She never rose again.
The cubs, sensing the hard fact that their
protector was dead, got on her booy' and
began to lap it and nozzle IL, doing their best
in their poor confused way to waken it to its
old motherly warmth n activity. We
caught them without much difficulty, ana
having secured them, proceeded to skin our
troaghy;
ing that IL was In the spring, when bears
are usually miserably thin with their en-
forced fast Of the winter. But the only
food in her stomach was a bit Of rawhide.
Horses are afraid Of bears. The scent OF
a bear Is often enough to throw them into
a panic. Some annot be induced to ap-
proach a bear, living or dead, ana the at
tempt to pack a bear carcass OF the back Of
your pony will generally cause a perfectly
gentle animal to become unmanageable.
We experienced all this and more when
We W Rbbo0A OO0A hAAk0 Ol III DaCh u
my husbands horse. That animal i'm
mediately began to rear and jump, and
when the four or US, using every resource
at our command jointly and seyerally,
to the saddle he began to buck and shy
20 furiously that he succeeded In d~islodging
the hide, which tumbled to the ground,
bringing down saddle and all. After all
our work we had to leave our trophy behind
us, as It was growing dark.
AS il was Lisk and I, who attempted
to get the two bear babies back to the camp
in safety, lost our way in the darkness and
a danger signal. My husband, who. not
being hindered by our small, toddling
charges, was able to make good time, had
reached camp, but seeing our signal fire
o back and rescued us.
Among our supplies we had a case of con-
densed milk. My first act on reaching
camp was to prepare some Of this and feed
IL to the cubs. Strange to say. they took
to- this unnatural food from the first and
thrived on it.. They were never much Of
pets; still we all got on very well together
during the remainder OF the trip and when
we got back TO Miles City they were in the
pink Of condition on their condensed milk
diet.
Having reached a point OF comparative
civilization / decided that il would be a
kim and wise thing to put my young charges
on a diet OF cows milk. But this expert
ment failed miserably. The cubs nearly
bhDd III OObEC4GCnCO VI IL dU1 Il HdU 10 THs
turn to condensed milk in order to save
their lives
The London Geological Garden having
lost its last grizzly about six months be-
fore we decided we could not make a bet
ter disposition OF our cubs than to give
them to the Zoo. So we shipped them of
to England. Although they had the same
mother, one was a silver tip and the other
q grizzly. Friends OF ours who lave visited
the Zoo since report having seen them there
in fine health and spirits.
Fol the woman with outdoor propensi-
ties and a taste for r~oughing it there ia no
life more c%ongenial than that of the saddle
and rife, as i may still be lived in parts of
with success or to get any fun out OF it one
must have the sporting Instinct.
Where the wife shows any liking at all
for life in the open 1 consider a hunting ex-
petition one OF the most desirable WAYS
for a couple to spend a holiday. IL is won
derful what comradeship is DEVELOPED be-
tween them. All sorts of cobwebs get blown
away in the long days together on the wind
swept prairies or in the gulches and trails
of the Bad Lands.
Pursued for any length OF time, how
ever, the life has a somewhat depressing
effect on the physical forces. At least that
the cold now an we'll as when I first came
to Montana and I a had to yield to the
luxury OF a mattress, instead Of lying out
on the snow and the watersoaked ground,
in defiance Of ~sciatica, neuralgia, rheuma-
tlsm, bronchitis and pneumonia, as I used
to.
after a while the blood seems to lose
some power or quality Of resistance.
account for this on the score Of diet"