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Title: Hunting and trapping stories; a book for boys
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: (Price, J. P. Hyde), 1874- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Hunting
Publisher: New York, McLoughlin bro's
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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zoological collections can boast of possessing a live gorilla. All hunters and explorers who have met the gorilla in its native landagree on one point, and that is that the stuffed specimen gives no idea of theapparent height, or looks of the brute when alive in its own forests. Itwould be hard to picture a more fiendish looking creature. Its eyes areshifty and cruel, while its cheek bones and eye brows are large and lowering.Its teeth stick out, giving it a most ferocious look. When alive it appearsto be much larger than it really is. Its great breadth of chest and length oflimb seems to shrink up when it is dead. The color of its fur is black but ifyou look closely you will see a slight slate-grayish tint running through it. The West African natives declare that the gorilla is easily a match forthe lion and that whenever the two come together the lion always gets out ofthe way as quickly as possible. Futhermore they declare that even theelephant will not face the gorilla willingly.
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A GRIZZLY SWEPT AWAY BY AN AVALANCHE A HUNT FOR A GRIZZLY A mining prospector, who was also a great hunter, while locating claimscamped in a wild canon of the Sierra Nevada mountains, near the Needlesin California. Late one afternoon while seeking a place to pitch his tent hecame upon a band of Indians, who told him that a few hours before theyhad passed a gigantic grizzly bear. They pointed out as nearly as possiblethe spot where the brute had been seen, and then told the hunter that hehad better go and kill it. Wishing him good luck they passed on. Before daybreak the next morning the hunter started off in quest of hisprey. He soon came to the tracks of the bear and followed them up into adark canon. Presently he came across a cluster of bees buzzing angrilyaround a tree stump from which their nest had been torn. This was a suresign that the bear could not be far off. The hunter pushed on rapidly, buthe was not prepared for what happened next. On turning a corner hesuddenly found hi

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