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Identifier: huntingtrappings00pric (find matches)
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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d their tent they ^^^ ^ f ^measured tread They all gripped their rifles and waited. After a whi e thesound ceased and they got to sleep again. It was discovered the next daythat the measured tread that had so starded them came from a at thaa moving through the leaves in a series of jumps and of course they aldt rather foolish. In the dark and stillness they had imagined this to befhe mrghty enemy. Quite often small noises sound all out of proportion in rtl :::;tn^t:^::^:X ^ea. but whi. its tracks were plamenough they^ never^caught sight of the creature Hself^ Cair^ w.s pitchedagain, and this time among some rocks. 1 rouble began at once,the rMdesnakes grew very friendly and insisted upon -Parting the camp aall hours and then the flies invaded the cooking tent. The cook *as a chinaman, usually the most placid of souls, but on this ^^T ITLvenngslively. The men were busy cleaning guns and getting he «>> °«; ^gout, when suddenly the chinaman gave an unearthly yell. The men rushed
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BEARS! The fact that this bear was found carrying, not dragging, a large deer,indicates its enormous strength. The skinning took some time, and parts ofthe meat were cut off and roasted and found to be ^ood eating. The bear iscapable of considerable speed and even when badly wounded it has beenseen to move over the ground at a great pace. It does not gallop butappears to shuffle along in clumsy fashion. On the way back to the ranch one of the hunters killed a fine buck butthey had no means of carrying the body with them. The young hunter didnot know what to do, for he knew that the coyotes would find the prize in notime The guide said he would fix it. He took the skin of the grizzlyand laid it over the deer and then they went on. Later in the day the guideand the hunter returned with a packhorse and found the body untouched.There is a smell about the grizzly that other creatures greatly dread, and theskin of a grizzly, spread in this fashion, over any game is a sure protection.The sha

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