Western field . shots were fired; a little later there was asharp skirmish on the extreme left was evident that the enemy was with-drawing, as the bear does in the present farEastern war. There was nothing more doinguntil the man on the right and above thecaptain climbed out on a protruding cliff toget a view of the situation. He was agreeably surprised to see a bearabout two hundred yards below, eating hisacorn breakfast, and just back about sixtyyards was the captain, apparently creepingup to give bruin a surprise. The man on therock sat down as he supposed to witness ^^. ^- the bea
Western field . shots were fired; a little later there was asharp skirmish on the extreme left was evident that the enemy was with-drawing, as the bear does in the present farEastern war. There was nothing more doinguntil the man on the right and above thecaptain climbed out on a protruding cliff toget a view of the situation. He was agreeably surprised to see a bearabout two hundred yards below, eating hisacorn breakfast, and just back about sixtyyards was the captain, apparently creepingup to give bruin a surprise. The man on therock sat down as he supposed to witness ^^. ^- the bear-slaying act done in the most scien-tific manner; he thought his captain wascreeping on the bear to shoot him in the eye,or perhaps he intended to slaughter the bearwith his hunting knife, but the man on therock was sadly disappointed. When the captain emerged from behind a •414 WESTERN FIELD. PLENTY AS GOOD LEFT IN OUR WOODS/ bunch of brush in plain view of bruin andonly some two rods away from him. theSlayer halted and the bear sat upright to seewhat was doin«:. The Slayer commenced toback, and when he got out of sight of thebear he turned and ran as fast as possiblethrough the thick brush; the bear, of course,broke brush in the opposite direction. The man on the rock was disgusted andslowly turned his steps toward camp. Whenhe arrived there he found the captain busilyengaged preparing lunch. His pants wereripped, his shirt torn, and there was a lot ofscratches on his face and hands; the captainwas also in a mood extremely non-communi-cative. The remainder of the party came in insquads of one and two. When the last manhad reported they gave an account of theirindividual experiences. One man had seena bear and fired two shots without effect;another had scared up a bear but did not see him; a third had seen two bear but theywere out of range; another man had woundeda bear
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