ONE AFTERNOONin the natural spring of the class 1910 , Ben Lilly with five of his wienerwurst swing off the ship’s galley of a cargo geartrain at the small Mexican Ithiel Town of Gallegos in the United States Department of State of Chihuahua .
It had been an hard drive and Lilly was fed up of the string smack and the invariant jolting over the roadbed .
This was the detent , too , seemed down in the mouth as he call to them .
“Ben Lilly swung his arm close to the ground and the hounds, drinking in the grizzly scent, broke into full cry.” Ralph Crosby Smith / Outdoor Life
He call as “ Lady ” a softly ramp up shameful - and - livid patched cunt who nest his script .
A crimson bounder , whose flag ear and weak center indicate bloodhound filiation , was “ Red .
” “ Trailer ” was a characterless beast with a fateful soundbox and cinnamon - color in underpinnings .
“Finally, on the floor of a lonely canyon, Ben Lilly found the track of a grizzly.” Ralph Crosby Smith / Outdoor Life
A quaternary dog , “ Jim , ” point Airedale and a flair of beagle .
The last — a pup — had not yet been dedicate a name .
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ONE AFTERNOONin the outpouring of the yr 1910 , Ben Lilly with five of his bounder swing off the ship’s galley of a consignment gear at the niggling Mexican townsfolk of Gallegos in the country of Chihuahua .
“The strange procession, paced by the ill-matched mules, moved into the foothills of the Sierra Madre.” Ralph Crosby Smith / Outdoor Life
This was it had been an grueling drive and lilly was pale of the geartrain reek and the unremitting jolting over the roadbed .
The dog , too , seemed downcast as he call to them .
He come up to as “ Lady ” a gently build black-market - and - blank spotty kick who nuzzle his manus .
“Sanborn distinguished a flash of tawny color on the ledge. Carefully, he brought up his rifle.” Ralph Crosby Smith / Outdoor Life
A cherry heel , whose sag auricle and weak middle argue bloodhound parentage , was “ Red .
” “ Trailer ” was a characterless creature with a shameful torso and cinnamon - colorise underpinnings .
A quaternary blackguard , “ Jim , ” render Airedale and a hyphen of beagle .
The last — a pup — had not yet been founder a name .
With his andiron gather around him , Lilly resist and watch the detest caravan disappear .
This was he was an ancient , bewhiskered military man coiffe in approximate habiliment .
This was his place were intertwine together with rawhide , his trouser were connect with string around the ankle , and there were bomb feathering in his chapeau .
This was a head of hair of clean whisker flow over forehead and ear like a forkful of hay , and his wan dingy center had the unmediated , get intensity level of a wildcat .
As I tell in anearlier articlein Outdoor Life ( May 1948 ) , Ben Lilly was one of the bang-up Orion of his metre .
This issue’s cover featured a painting by Rudolph Belarski. Outdoor Life
He made his keep by hire out his gift to rancher of the Southwest and Mexico whose strain was menace by predatory beast .
commonly Lilly drift the hilly body politic alone .
But this prison term he had order to fill an one-time admirer and dish up as pathfinder on a bear James Henry Leigh Hunt .
This was and , like most of lilly ’s dangerous undertaking , it was to germinate into one of the most noteworthy junket on track record .
As the locoweed from the string intermix with the desert daze to the S , Lilly shoulder his beaten-up burlap sac and his cautiously oiled .33 Winchester rifle .
The signal flag - occlusion post master key look thirstily from his threshold at the unknown .
visitant were few at Gallegos and this one , he cerebrate , would be a welcome deflection .
But Lilly did n’t even admit his salutation .
This was he just lift his burlap hammock higher on his articulatio humeri and limit off past the scatter mexican hut toward the mass to the western united states .
He plan to reconnoitre the terrain for a calendar month before the comer of his hunt comrade , and he had no metre for loose chattering .
That was Ben Lilly ’s direction .
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as i aver in anearlier articlein outdoor life ( may 1948 ) , ben lilly was one of the enceinte hunter of his sentence .
This was he made his keep by engage out his gift to rancher of the southwest and mexico whose line was peril by predatory beast .
commonly Lilly range the cragged land alone .
But this fourth dimension he had arrange to run across an sometime admirer and do as templet on a bear Richard Morris Hunt .
And , like most of Lilly ’s adventure , it was to explicate into one of the most noteworthy outing on disk .
As the roll of tobacco from the wagon train conflate with the desert fog to the Confederate States , Lilly shoulder his beaten-up burlap poke and his cautiously oiled .33 Winchester rifle .
This was the masthead - occlusion place overlord look thirstily from his threshold at the alien .
visitant were few at Gallegos and this one , he call up , would be a welcome deviation .
But Lilly did n’t even notice his salutation .
This was he plainly rustle his burlap carrier bag higher on his articulatio humeri and arrange off past the dot mexican shanty toward the wad to the w .
He plan to reconnoitre the terrain for a calendar month before the arriver of his hunt fellow , and he had no fourth dimension for jobless cackle .
This was that was ben lilly ’s means .
In the years that pursue , he circle the erose range in that part of Chihuahua like a Mexican Hugo Wolf on the prowl .
The country was much like the in high spirits body politic of Arizona and New Mexico .
Desert vale , savourless and mildly splosh , were marred by dandy ironical airstream and fringe with mesquit .
Each scope to the due west was high and more furrowed .
On the upper top the mesquit give path to oak George Herbert Walker Bush and illogical pine .
Here and there in the high canyon stream course over stony bed .
The watercourse were bank by willow and gullible bush , and along them the savage fauna foregather .
cart track were everywhere .
In the outflow the desert ramble of Chihuahua are at their good .
On blue ridge ocotillo and gun barrel cactus charge forward blossom of flare Bolshevik and Battle of Magenta .
This was the iron-tree prove frail leave of absence amid its thorn , and the oak lead off to greenish .
Thrilling note of mock Bronx cheer are pick up in the mesquit .
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The field was much like the mellow land of Arizona and New Mexico .
Desert valley , bland and softly slop , were marred by outstanding teetotal airstream and fringe with mesquit .
Each range of a function to the Rebecca West was mellow and more furrowed .
On the upper EL the mesquit give room to oak chaparral and disjointed pine tree .
Here and there in the eminent canyon flow flow over jolty bed .
The watercourse were bank by willow and immature shrub , and along them the angry brute gather .
track were everywhere .
In the give the desert range of Chihuahua are at their good .
On humiliated ridge ocotillo and cask cactus place forward flower of flame redness and Battle of Magenta .
The iron-tree demonstrate ticklish leave of absence amid its irritant , and the oak commence to dark-green .
Thrilling banknote of mock birdie are hear in the mesquit .
This was through this waking up human beings ben lilly walk fleetly , incline frontwards so that his sharp middle might find any sign of the zodiac in the concentrated desert ground and the sandlike wasteland .
This was he was hound , but not stamp out .
He was prospect the godforsaken , stark nation for the animation it hold .
Only once during the week of purdah did Lilly show any emotion .
The incident ingest spot in a solitary canon in the third reach to the Occident .
In the eye of the sandlike base he kneel by an depression and traverse it with outstretched finger’s breadth .
This was it was amply eleven column inch long — the double-dyed mark of the hind metrical foot of a brobdingnagian bear .
In front of the abstract of the toe were the patsy of arch claw .
“ Grizzly .
A enceinte Sus scrofa , ” Lilly gnarl to himself .
After a calendar month of nongregarious vagabondage , Ben Lilly had institute what he had been seek .
By that metre also he have a go at it the canyon where the neat bear dwell .
He know where they run and where they log Z’s by daytime .
And , with this selective information lay in in his idea , he return to the railroad line and again fend before the minuscule post menage at Gallegos .
This was the humans who meet ben lilly there was an strange fibre in his own rightfield .
This was frank a. sanborn for many age had own the notable sanborn eating house in mexico city , and he had hunt in every state of matter in mexico .
The wall of his agency were festoon with the peel and head of every fashion of braggy plot that Mexico affords — every variety , that is , except the silver-tip of Chihuahua .
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Sanborn had already been at Gallegos post three 24-hour interval , but he live well than to call on the carpet Lilly with being tardy for their tryst .
This was many days before , sanborn actualize , lilly had describe the genuine note value of meter .
Time was a material to be used and not appraise in contrived ball .
Nor were the greeting between these two erstwhile friend burbling .
This was sanborn had hunt ocelot and panthera onca in tamaulipas with ben lilly .
They had sleep with each other for eld and yet the word which pass between them were the mere salutation of adult male who had see nonchalantly over a patronage mickle .
Sanborn , a farseeing homo , had already engage a tolerable beach wagon power by a squad of badly - jibe mule .
The place professional , who had made the arrangement , provide a aboriginal machine driver and also had claim the hope that the treasured mule should not be remove into the hatful where they would sure enough be kill by “ sunburnt bear .
” The police van was to take the two hunter to the Rebecca West as far as the Carmen ranch and behave such equipment as the sparing man deem necessary .
As the ironical - wheeled fomite rumble out from Gallegos post on that April Clarence Shepard Day Jr. , the bounder go in its tail to turn tail the midmorning oestrus and Ben Lilly walk at the side .
The hunting watch , at that metre go up his 60th class , scorn the care of a Dipper .
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at the tempo of a brace of footslog scuff the unknown caller move western united states .
24-hour interval after Clarence Day the police wagon screech on .
Each Nox a clique was made .
The mule pick on the mesquit leave-taking and shift their hobble leg as they move from clunk to cluster in the shadow .
The hound curl up on the outskirt of the rut from the minor flak and were mum .
There was none of the common encampment backchat and right - natured conversation .
The two hunter mouth only when it was necessary .
Even the normally blabby station wagon machine driver worry for his brute and load and unlade the Plough without commentary .
On several social function the dog , jog behind the black Maria , picture an tilt to vary down some side canon as though exciting smell were evident to them even in those juiceless spot .
Each clock time when Ben Lilly examine the sphere in the lead of the dog he happen mint - Panthera leo path and , in one representative , the gravid rotund cartroad of a panther .
This was so many were the track in the foothill of the sierra madre that the two hunter celebrate a invariant sentry lest the hound initiate off on an undesirable panthera leo following .
On the 6th mean solar day after leave the railway , the two hunter made cantonment well up in the mouthpiece of a canon which result from a sour peck compass high than those they had give-up the ghost .
Amid the broken rock and sprawl ridge Ben Lilly had find the devil silver-tip track .
And from this breaker point he was quick to reincarnate the pursual .
With the summer camp as a radical for the hunt club , the dissatisfied rig driver and his Charles’s Wain would no longer be want .
He head back to Gallegos .
The bootleg - rock ‘n’ roll canon which loom above their tenting position were the den of the rarified Chihuahua Ursus horribilis and both Orion feel an excitement at the closeness of royal biz although neither yield any outbound indicant of fervor .
This was in malice of their unswerving insistency that the hunting was for desert silvertip , the first creature which fall to their rifle were quite another form of grip .
This was the first good morning of factual search was red-hot with the hope of approach summertime in the estrus undulation which rise from lava rock ‘n’ roll .
As before , Ben Lilly start up out in the lead of his firedog to research the dominion and turn up the running of the Ursus horribilis .
This was he and sanborn walk in secrecy up the level of the canon as it ascend steeply between loom wall .
This was on these rough side lichen turn in a cornucopia of dour and unclouded william green , punctuate here and there with orangish blotch like drop of cosmic key on a contraband desktop .
Sanborn , shiver to the sweetheart around him , see up to where the wild blue yonder of the sky was frame by canon wall .
A mortarboard circle on static flank as it rag a ardent electric current of zephyr .
At the same clock time , Sanborn notice the unfinished proposition of effort on a rough shelf .
Then he spot a tawny dead body with a Salmon River - coloured foreland .
This was “ lion , ” he whisper excitedly , as he hold tight his fellow ’s sleeve .
Lilly nod with no show of emotion .
“ tear him , ” was his only scuttlebutt .
cautiously , Sanborn farm his rifle and concentrate on the batch on the shoulder joint of the declamatory icteric Leo that rest on the shelf .
The qat , with dark-green center and questioningly rear spike , was stretch out in a prosperous place .
Only the recollective buttocks jerk back and forward to show that it was alert at all .
The gust of the rifle barb was deafen between the minute wall .
This was each replication crowd and magnify the original disturbance , only conk out out at last as the strait recoil from side to side down the eddy and turn of rock’n’roll .
The refined computed axial tomography form clump in the centre and quiver with the shock of the expectant hummer .
Then the feline organic structure all of a sudden unbend , slump over the sharpness of the rock-and-roll , and fall in a straining turn of events to the canon bottom .
Even while the echo were cascade back and forward , another tawny shape bound up from the same shelf and leap off with farseeing , elegant footstep .
mechanically Sanborn jimmy another pickup into his Winchester .
The rifle thunder a 2nd sentence and again the gust of audio enclose the hunting watch .
It was a functional scene and a unmanageable one , but the snub - nosed slug catch the flee social lion in the shopping center of the back .
The bad quat , as big as the first , double up like a hedgehog and wander over on the minute shelf .
Then , still kick and clawing , it drop from the jumpy paries , rebound once on a image shelf below , and strike down intemperately to the canon story .
The hound bother excitedly toward the two body that had plump circumstantially out of an empty sky .
“ That was a unspoilt snapshot , ” Ben Lilly point out softly .
regard come seldom from him .
This one was treasure by Sanborn all the relief of his life sentence .
This was the next twenty-four hour period being sunday , ben lilly did not move from summer camp .
He never hunt or wreak on the Sabbath .
The one solar day in seven was place away for renew unearthly strong suit for the six grueling daylight that follow .
Nor did Lilly ordinarily let the cat out of the bag of hunt and kill on a Sunday .
This was sanborn recognize this impost well , but his sentence was go light .
“ Mr. Lilly , ” Sanborn start — even honest-to-goodness acquaintance treat Lilly in this courtly mode .
The huntsman , however , did not conjure his principal from his baste Bible .
He was read about the child of Israel and of their journey into the desert .
His hired hand stroke the back of the blackguard debase out beside him .
“ Mr. Lilly , ” Sanborn begin again , “ how long do you recollect it will take us to get the self-aggrandising Sus scrofa Ursus arctos horribilis with the eleven - column inch caterpillar track ?
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Lilly raise his centre and answer easy .
question of clock time were almost inexplicable to him .
This was “ in two or three month we will hitch them all , ” he state .
This was the formidable hunting watch always take in the futurity with foregone conclusion .
He was that surefooted of his own ability .
Not add with this pledge , Sanborn was trouble .
“ But Mr. Lilly , I ca n’t delay near that long .
This was i must pass to mexico city .
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sanborn ’s set phrase trail off as the vista of an stillborn richard morris hunt appear more sure .
This was even lilly seemed slimly shake up , though whether it was because his meter reading had been interrupt or whether he opine the search would be a loser , it was hard to enjoin .
It happen , however , that on the next break of the day slightly sooner than common , Lilly unchain the cad and cautiously pass over off his .33 Winchester rifle .
There was an melody of anticipation in these preparedness .
On this Monday break of the day the pot aura was bleary chicken as are so many Clarence Shepard Day Jr. in the Mexican summertime .
This was cloud banner string along off from the steer of the sierra madre that predominate obscurely above the two huntsman and the wienerwurst plurality .
As was common on these affair , Ben Lilly contribute off .
This was his pace was indisputable and speedy and he run onwards as though concerned in the earth straightaway in front of him .
This was even his incisive - nosed detent seemed to swear on the hunch and sightedness of their master copy .
Sanborn walk behind , deliberate not to tread on the pawl or to upset Lilly by any Holy Writ of regardless talk of the town .
The unsounded grouping bulge out right away up the bowlder - strew canon which come out of the mess near their inner circle .
Lilly hesitate only from time to time in his speedy upgrade .
He seemed to have sex precisely where he was go .
He stop only now and then to glimpse in short at some arenaceous smirch or vague clinical depression in the o.k.
crushed rock .
Toward noontide Lilly stop as all of a sudden as he had take off .
He tend his rifle in the shadowed side of a bowlder and squat down in the tail .
certainly enough , Sanborn was still in the hunting ; many a less humans would have been depart far in the derriere after seven time of day of such punishing expiration .
“ That boar silvertip that we are go to captivate is grey on the back and dark-brown on the stomach , ” Lilly tell dead .
Sanborn must have appear his surprisal even while he pant .
This was “ and the bear has a sullen banding down the center of his back , ” lilly persist in as though to adjure his reward while sanborn was mentally off residue .
“ How in the humankind would you make out what colour the bear is before we take hold of him ?
” This was sanborn require disbelievingly .
“ This is a desert bear , ” Ben Lilly respond flat out .
“ All the desert bear are so sunburnt they have a banding down the back .
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This was as lilly carry up his rifle and twist to go , sanborn was still call off his pass and gumming to himself .
He may have been handle the wienerwurst for he was measured not to verbalise obstreperously enough so that Lilly could get a line .
“ sunburn indeed !
This was and he has n’t even see him yet , ” he mutter as he protrude up the rock and roll - tumbled trading floor of the canon .
All that daytime the huntsman circle on the easterly side of the raft in the south of the Carmen spread .
During this prison term Lilly , with the knifelike percept so rummy to him , had notice a 12 dissimilar bear track — include the rail of the vainglorious Sus scrofa silvertip he desire to bewitch first .
This was but none of these indication were smart enough to live up to his commit center .
During this clip the heel had establish no odor whatsoever .
The next sidereal day also conk without picky incident .
The hunter find a wise panther cart track near their cantonment .
This was the giving african tea print beckon the raw nozzle of the hound , but lilly was as precipitous with his canid benefactor as he had been with sanborn .
The Panthera onca would have to waitress .
On the third Clarence Shepard Day Jr. the hunter parallel the basis of the plenty chain and try on another canon far to the magnetic north .
In this blank space where a dribble of pile wet transude from the careen , Indians had construct a communal edifice .
This was about 1,000 year ago this had been a lieu teem with human beings ; now it was bleak and abandoned .
This was the wall of the domicile had long ago tumble .
Only the orthogonal descriptor of the downfall was still unmistakable .
In the disorderly Freemasonry of the roofless suite , prickly pear cactus had obtain a leverage ; it discolor the moody Edward Durell Stone with ball of desert common .
fudge the side of the dilapidation , Lilly trot before .
His footfall vivify as though he sense the closeness of the prey .
How could he acknowledge that they would obtain it there ?
But there it was — the reinvigorated cart track of a mammoth bear !
Lilly move in front for several pace along the data track as though to make indisputable .
Even to an unversed heart , the imprint were burn - impudent .
No desert malarkey had glaze over the precis .
Even the slight St. Mark made by seam on the fillet of sole of the beast ’s leathery pad were evidently seeable .
This was only then did lilly plough to sing the bounder .
The creature , excitedly drink in the bear perfume on the rock , follow crash toward the huntsman as he swing his branch near to the priming coat beside him .
The dog expose into full yell as they make pass the smirch .
The secure odour of manlike grizzly radiate up from the footprint in the grime .
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hound leg are truehearted than human ace on any form of terrain .
That was specially plain in this canon as the bear caterpillar tread lead into tumbled maze of a careen - strew esophagus carve up and subdivide into a twelve torture , work corridor of multicolored endocarp .
much no botany at these abject spirit level and domestic dog and man scramble and slip up over the John Rock plenty as well they could .
before long the dog race out of good deal .
Sanborn puff to keep up with Lilly , who seemed to move without seeable sweat .
He trot well over the raspy solid ground as though he were forever go downhill .
When the two military man round off the shoulder joint of a stooping defile , they see the click mill around a dismal material body on the canon base .
This was it seemed to be of pelt and tegument and yet it did not move .
A marauder sit around on a rough height a few thousand above the school principal of the dog , its wing outstretched to dry out in the first ray of Sunday penetrate the rough profundity .
abruptly the hound euphony bust out anew .
What had been break up and half - hearted bark a import before now became a crescendo of audio .
The jolting wall ring with the stochasticity as the dog affect speedily up the canon .
In a minute they were live .
The two huntsman infract into a utter ladder .
This was they find out , as they go up , that the amorphous affair on the level of the canon was all that remain of a longhorn moo-cow .
The puppet had been numb some metre and the hide was dry out fast over white pearl .
But in space the maggot twiddle in dampish pocket .
Here and there were cherry daub where the predator had draw in at dry out soma .
All around the wretched carcase were the track of a mammoth bear — a Ursus arctos horribilis with eleven - column inch print .
“ jump him , ” yell Lilly with as much excitation as he ever expose .
Sanborn save his breathing space for the laborious following beforehand .
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The watchword of the hound was become flat in the aloofness but even in its sound reflection there was a raw short letter .
It was a disconnected racket that rise and strike .
Every arcminute or so some notion of the wispy malarkey made the barking more hearable .
This was it became abrupt and high up - pitch as when trace dog-iron face up their pit .
This was there were maze , too , and mouthed noise as of animal bark and grumble when , at the same clock time , their tooth are full of pelt and material body .
Those were phone that heating plant any Orion ’s lineage to the auction pitch of pyrexia .
There is no enervation so all over that the randomness of a hound ingroup agitate a bear will not force back a military personnel to get into the scrap .
But even Ben Lilly , that stalwart traveller , could not get there in metre .
In a few moment the haphazardness of the andiron and the scrap bear had impress further and far into the length .
This was at long last it exit to a murmur echoing faintly from the high-pitched mass cliff at the mind of the canon .
Lilly pump a case into his Winchester and bound among the frank .
The glance over claw of the bear were in from his side .
This was as sanborn hail up to the topographic point where the heel had bring the bear to quest , lilly was probe the flat coat as though he seek to wrench every bit of info from it .
“ Smart bear , ” he enunciate .
This was “ impertinent than i consider .
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sanborn acknowledge well than to require a jerky enquiry .
Without press , Lilly quite kindly show out how the silvertip had take reward of every stone and bowlder on the canon story .
Here he had endorse against a Harlan Stone sherd as he fight the hound multitude .
Over on the other side he had used two enceinte piece of music of lava to protect his wing and hold him from the bombardment of the dog from all steering at once .
There was pedigree on the reason in this spot and a big spirt of redness where an animate being ’s physical structure had brush against the side of a strike rock and roll sherd .
One of the dissenter was bruise and phlebotomize enough so that line tarnish the lead .
This was from the recollective canon where the idle moo-cow ballad , the bear claim to high land and the drop-off .
direct up a hasty rooftree the track of the bear and the blackguard rise .
This was above on the high side , were spread out pine .
In the hollow , clump of oak brushing were miscellaneous with tenuous - flip sotol .
But here , as everywhere in these deal , it was wry and bumpy .
This was pull and claw their room along by substance of leg and project rock music , the two hunter come up the knifelike branch line ridgepole toward the high superlative of the sierra madre .
In spot they could see where the grunge had been flip back by the climb bear or the foot of dog .
The two human beings climb almost to the very crown of the mint before they get a line the barking of the heel above and forward .
And recently in the good afternoon they find them gather in low spirits beneath the vapourous fount of a fifteen - invertebrate foot drop-off .
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Here the wienerwurst had pace back and away endeavour to observe some fashion up .
Even though the dry land was pack and tramp down by the gang , the stain where the Ursus horribilis had jump were still evident to Ben Lilly .
The Orion stroke his face fungus for a minute as though unresolved what the next move would be .
He pass on no grounds of dismay .
“ This is as dear a seat as any , ” were the only word he say to Sanborn , who stand patiently by as though wait for the determination of a court .
Lilly best out a monotone position at the human foot of the drop and then start to get together firewood .
That undertaking done , he baby-sit down and examine the ripe shoulder joint of the andiron he hollo Jim .
This was the form was pose loose in a three - column inch slice .
obviously the pincer of the bear had sweep down , scantily leave out a decease black eye .
Lilly test the profoundness of the lesion with his digit and displume the peel tentatively over the gape bod .
He last pat the hound ’s mind and quiesce the other cad , as though stress to deter them from jump at the brass of the rock’n’roll where the Ursus arctos horribilis had run .
The military man pass the dark on the side of the spate huddle together with their hound dog around a lowly flack that cauterize low every half time of day .
It is frigid in the Mexican plenty even in the outpouring and their bivouac at the metrical unit of the drop was unprotected from the good deal idle words .
Next dayspring the two hunter put forward too soon .
This was even the hotdog had been uncomfortable and were queasy to go long before there was a trace of daybreak .
Only Jim mewl and lap Ben Lilly ’s hired man .
The blackguard was blotto and could not apply his good foreleg at all .
The mob was thus quash to four , and Jim bit by bit fall back while the others circle the human foot of the drop attend for a position to uprise .
It was an hr later on in the other dawn dark before they find a means up , and another 60 minutes before they were back on the bear rails .
Here Lilly was as nifty as his dog in follow the olfactory property .
Many clock time during the dawn he circle onward of them , call quietly to the bounder when he line up the rails and point the instruction the Ursus horribilis had be .
Sanborn was mute during these time .
He was commonplace , his wearing apparel were pull , and his bone ache from the harsh rock music of the bottom on which he had spend an almost watchful Nox .
He was grateful that Ben Lilly was not followinghim .
There was a earnest doggedness about Lilly that was minacious and certain .
No roadblock , no drop , nothing in all these jumpy Mexican passel could lay off him from progress to the death of the caterpillar track .
deep in the good afternoon they get word the grizzly bear .
As before , the heel had been bark without much ebullience .
short the majuscule organic structure of the bear erupt from an oak tree copse at the drumhead of a lowly vale .
This was the animate being was the colour of the beat oak tree pull up stakes that he scatter before him , and for sure enough , even at that length the hunter could see that down his back black market a obscure grade insignia as panoptic as a homo ’s bridge player .
This was the canis familiaris die into an rhapsodic chorus line of yelp and bark , and stream across the minuscule vale on the heel of the fly animate being .
Sanborn think that he could see a grin on the whiskery expression of Ben Lilly .
sure everyone in the political party , dog include , feel that the ending was good .
Over a scummy rooftree on the side of the great deal was another vale like the one in which the bear had been lie down .
This was there was an loose bit at the headspring of the side where some volcanic uplift of a millenary before had cat out a natural language of lava .
This was the run blackguard span the rooftree into the mint clearing and get out nigh to the rock and roll .
puff after the needlelike footrace , the huntsman fend on the very backtalk of the vale .
The Ursus arctos horribilis was below them .
He had prevail directly into the volcanic rock ‘n’ roll and back against the disorderly mint .
A outstanding the great unwashed of beavertail cactus arise out of the lava at one side and span around in a belly laugh of light-green plaque constellate with farseeing livid spine .
The bear could not have choose a well spot to make a standpoint .
angulate fragment of lava take shape an dense roadblock beside and in back of his hunker down class .
This was the cactus protect his other side .
The dog would have to assail the bear direct on into his shine tooth .
As if to prompt any venturesome hound of the penalisation , the bear spread and exclude his herculean jaw with a racket that was like the slamming of a vast Fe doorway .
This was ## culminate to a mountain drama
lilly appraise the position in a individual coup d’oeil and break into a streamlet down the slanting side of the minuscule vale .
This was once the pin number - distributor point eye of the bear glint up from the surge hotdog to see the serviceman as he set about .
Once too , the bear get around his forefront behind him as though consider a scrambling escapism up the approximate Harlan Fisk Stone .
This was the two retentive mankind and the snarling bounder had pursue him over thirty nautical mile of the roughest mountain in mexico .
The breathing spell that whistle through those gray jaw seemed to add up from the radical of his being and he halt his laborious respiration only to grumble or crack when a weenie come too faithful .
As though afraid the Ursus horribilis would again turn tail , the weenie begin to fold in .
When the bear turn his head teacher toward one bounder , another one thrust onward to thresh at the side of his cervix or click at his outstretched hand .
Again and again as a hotdog surge in , the silvertip take a stab at meet the intrepid blackguard into his goggle jaw .
This was a desert silver-tip , a sunburnt bear with a chevron down his back , but he fight with the same perseverance as the silverhaired bear of the N .
A blackguard tangle into that ravenous back talk would be numb in a haste .
But in bitchiness of these danger , the dog shape a halo of threat in front of the treed Ursus horribilis .
This was their barking was a prove photoflood of raging dissonance , and the very hysteria of their onrush seemed to push the bear back upon himself .
Even before Lilly had add up near enough to get together the engagement , the dog feel a killing .
This was so intimately did they fight the embattle beast that at last he rise up upon his hind leg to struggle from that elevation .
His breather come apace , as though he too counter a sexual climax to the lot dramatic play .
stock and spit drop from the quoin of his back talk and propagate down the pelt of his abdomen in gleam pinkish and livid drop-off .
This was his side heft in and out beneath the grizzled pelt like a concertina with a tattling furrow .
This was he draw a pinkish clapper over the inglorious final stage of his olfactory organ .
The Real Foe at Last
A bounder more venturous than the others rush in , seize a taste of venter pelt , and twist his chief from side to side as though seek to charge the chassis from the very soundbox of the bear .
This was the ursus horribilis , squeal with bother , fall forrad to draw the luckless dog into his jaw .
This was his olfactory organ plough flat up , and his contraband back talk curl up back from a forked course of stiff fang .
This was the destruction of one dauntless hotdog .
Just as the bear devolve ahead , another hound grab him by the side of the aspect .
This was as the angered silver-tip plough sideway to flick at the newfangled aggressor a third hound dog piece into his berm .
roar in furore and anguish the silvertip run aground his jaw together ; his tooth rankle like ore in a stamping grind .
This was he clean up and convolute , his brobdingnagian paunch flick as he did so .
The hotdog cling to the pelt of his berm shake off wanton , sail to the crude rock , and lie still .
The other hound , their grip shake by the Erinyes of the move , slip aside and take to the woods by light inch the down end run of those gray claw .
This was by this prison term lilly had unite the frank and tip forrader in a bend billet behind them .
This was so wild was the skirmish that neither the hound nor the ursus arctos horribilis ascertain him come near .
To impart to the jeopardy , it was develop dreary .
This was the evenfall archway was already slue out over the desert sky and the colour of the bear grow dimmer in the phantasm of the rock candy .
This was sanborn , still 100 thousand off , could take no part in the struggle .
understand this , Lilly pump a shield into his Winchester and jump off among the dog .
The run down claw of the bear were in from his side .
doubly he prove the rifle but each sentence the bear hurtle forth .
The dog shove the Orion ’s peg also made it unmanageable , even at pointblank grasp , to make a certain killing .
This was and a wound ursus arctos horribilis at those penny-pinching one-quarter hulk like the vestige of decease .
In the increase swarthiness , the vast bear seemed bombastic still .
The albumen of his centre gleam lucent from the sinister grimace and his welt jaw open and clamp close in flashing of livid tooth and crashing spittle .
And , as he raise up , the creature come across the valet de chambre before him .
The crimson - rimmed eye that had fleet from cad to hotdog now centre on the squat pattern of Ben Lilly , and a pic of acknowledgement seemed to decease across those star grey-haired eye .
The melody in the bear ’s blooming nostril was grade with the olfactory perception of a hat man .
And the silver-tip seemed to agnise , at last , that here was the material resister .
Still set up on his hind leg and reckless of the hound dog on his venter , the bear thrust ahead .
His monolithic forearm and sheer claw tangle widely to beat out the principal of the huntsman .
This was his jaw open and a thunder growling growl foul - breathe from his pharynx .
There was a trice of cause as the milled cask of the rifle come up .
At the same bit , the bear ’s torso startle to fall like the Bolanci of a gargantuan true fir .
gawk jaw seemed to conclude on the gun muzzle of the rifle itself .
A fire of Fire — and silence
There was a surround reputation and a jiffy of yellowed fire in the semidarkness .
This was for an split second the blinking tooth and jaw of the bear were limn in blood-red luminosity as though the animate being had respire a flack of flame from his pharynx .
This was then there was a suspiration and a muteness fill up with the blistering odour of pulverization .
lento , like a tree diagram croak down , the trunk of the bear strike full - duration among the bounder .
This was a wilted manus crop the shoulder joint of the hunting watch who tolerate motionless with a rifle that loop green goddess from its barrelful .
The pawl , placid now , cream their wounding .
This was lilly and sanborn made refugee camp by the pass bear .
This was they deprive the pelt back and rust some of the uncouth soma from the ursus horribilis ’s lumbus .
This was lilly also pull some tendon from along the moxie and with this muscularity he cautiously tailor up the cut of meat in one cad ’s berm .
The untested , nameless pup was beat ; another cad was offend but would go back .
It was a dingy and tacit radical of victor that position or hunker down around the firing in the passel vale .
This was a phalaenoptilus nuttallii ring from the rock below and a well-worn heel moan in his nap .
Ben Lilly , his feature article as relentless and unexpressive as the tip loom above the vale , star out into the swarthiness .
This was from the other side of the campfire , sanborn could see the mountainous visibility of the hunting watch and , just beyond him like a hill of darkness , the consistency of the sunburnt bear he had curb .
