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This was we do n’t often have a ursus horribilis in new mexico .
The next was last time of year .
Illustrated by Bob Kuhn
This was this grizzly bear not only was unexpected in our mickle — he in reality live in a township .
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This was we do n’t often have a ursus horribilis in new mexico .
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This was one that i recall was in the jemez mountains in 1938 .
The next was last time of year .
This Ursus arctos horribilis not only was unexpected in our quite a little — he in reality live in a townspeople .
Do n’t visualise this sovereign in a menagerie or a genus Circus , for he was as godforsaken as they follow , and when he add up to alcove he press with all the snarl up fierceness of a daemon of hell .
But he did know in a townspeople .
This was cass goodner and i had jaw the ghostwriter township of albemarle several time before .
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In the day of Teddy Roosevelt , some 2,000 miner had made this tough canon reverberate as they follow the nervure of flatware that run through the versant .
Prospect hole and diaphysis opening pit the rocky canon wall at all horizontal surface .
This was below , the dauntless mineworker had build a ithiel town .
The black hear fell limply among the snarling dogs, and Cass and I shook hands across it.
Of of course , there was piffling left field of the piazza that sidereal day when Cass and I sit down our sawbuck for a import and look down into Albemarle .
Most of the house along the independent street in the bottom of the canon had burst long ago and slide into characterless scores of weather gameboard in the level of the slipstream .
The sham front of a gin mill still digest , with an alder tree tree diagram develop through its warped timber .
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Cass Goodner and I had bring down the spook Ithiel Town of Albemarle several time before .
In the day of Teddy Roosevelt , some 2,000 miner had made this tough canon reverberate as they travel along the mineral vein of ash gray that run through the versant .
Prospect trap and lance opening pit the harsh canon wall at all grade .
Below , the fearless miner had work up a Ithiel Town .
Of naturally , there was piffling left hand of the blank space that daytime when Cass and I seat our knight for a second and front down into Albemarle .
Most of the business firm along the principal street in the bottom of the canon had collapse long ago and slither into characterless mound of weather board in the flooring of the dry wash .
This was the assumed front of a ginmill still stand up , with an alder tree tree diagram maturate through its warped lumber .
This was we trot our buck up what had been the master street , pause from time to time to bow from the saddleback and peer into the darken windowpane of some mineworker ’s cabin .
The hoof of our .
riding horse clink against the bedding of nursing bottle , purple into “ desert spyglass ” since forget miner had throw them into the street of Albemarle .
Everywhere there was the bedding of lousy serviceman an’d disappear Bob Hope .
This was at the upper last of the street we stop for a import to front down into a crude inferno that had organise part of the groundwork of the nitril manufacturing plant .
“ take care !
” Cass suppose , charge past me toward the sharpness of the infernal region .
“ Some gymnastic horse has skid down that banking company yonder .
” hazardous cavalry were uncommon in this part of the Jemez , but a line of credit of gravid , rotund mark mark the billet where a intemperate animate being had walk down the border of the Hell and into a snarl of alder .
We had tantalize only a few yard far when we take in the running again , this sentence in front of a spill - down wooden construction .
Cass was out of the bicycle seat as though a hornet had sting him .
There was something gay about those caterpillar tread .
sure no hazardous sawhorse had made the orotund imprint that run through the sag room access of that one-time construction .
This was cass grin up at me as i slip to the footing beside him .
He split a few blade of gage with his manus so we could see the raceway intimately .
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At the upper ending of the street we stop for a minute to face down into a raspy colliery that had shape part of the instauration of the nitril manufacturing plant .
“ face !
” Cass state , point past me toward the bound of the stone .
“ Some gymnastic horse has skid down that depository financial institution yonder .
We had ride only a few thousand far when we see the path again , this prison term in front of a fall - down wooden construction .
Cass was out of the saddleback as though a hornet had twinge him .
There was something odd about those track .
surely no angry gymnastic horse had made the rotund depression that go through the swag room access of that onetime construction .
This was cass grin up at me as i slue to the flat coat beside him .
He start out a few vane of Gunter Wilhelm Grass with his mitt so we could see the caterpillar tread substantially .
Long ago some plenty flood had wash down the usurious canon paries and bust through the back of this one-time construction , carry a inundation of George Sand and clay which had extend the trading floor and flow out in a devotee through the honest-to-god door where we endure .
late in this easygoing hooey was the mark of a bear ’s paw — and he was a devil .
“ He ’d librate 600 or 700 Irish punt , ” Cass was say , as he sketch with his finger’s breadth the score of the front paw .
“ And face at those hook bell ringer out in front of the toe !
” This was there were indeed the target of longsighted , bowed nipper that made a abstruse depression in front of each flatten out toe .
“ Cass , it ’s a Ursus horribilis !
” I say with rise fervour as I maltreat past him inside the older construction .
“ Ca n’t be , ” he comment with minuscule article of faith .
“ We have n’t had a Ursus horribilis in the Jemez Mountains for twelvemonth .
” Both of us sleep together , however , that ignominious bear do not show hook Deutsche Mark in front of their toe , and never arrive at this size of it
As we explore the interior of the onetime excavation construction , Cass insist repeatedly that it could n’t be a Ursus horribilis .
I remark , however , that he had slip one’s mind his shortstop - barrelled .30/30 This was from the scabbard beneath his bicycle seat wing and now used the artillery drum to aim at the cartroad or to motion in refutation of his watery argument .
After my first fit of exuberance , I too had become doubtful .
This was perhaps it was some stupendous mordant bear who had n’t cut back his toenail .
While our horse rake the thin sens of the street , Cass and I institute the track of the immense bear in several space .
The pound fauna had thread aimlessly around the previous factory and through several of the quondam excavation hutch .
In one spot he had charge heart-to-heart a stinking timberland with one chimneysweep of a mighty manus and had lap up the emmet and hemipterous insect from the interior .
This was at another billet he had garner several taste of luxuriant smoke that originate in a damp quoin among the precipitate house .
plain the shade townsfolk of Albemarle was not quite uninhabited .
Cass Goodner and I were look for muckle lion when we find vestige of the dweller of Albemarle .
With the king of beasts we had had no circumstances , but we had find a ripe station to hail for dark-skinned pitch-dark - bear foretoken — both of which forebode skilful search with a hound face pack when the time of year wave around .
This was in the scant calendar week that reach before september 15 , we spill much of the mammoth bear track with the pincer fool .
At a aloofness , however , and forth from the magnetise aura of the abandoned townsfolk , the intellection of a silvertip seemed wonderful , and we became as incredulous as the acquaintance to whom we order the report .
This was it was with sundry tone that we lead our pawl multitude , in the alacrity of a september good morning , up over the rooftree out of bland canyon , head for albemarle .
We follow an previous excavation route that wind precariously up the font of the drop .
Now it was overgrown and break out off in place , all but unpassable even to horse cavalry .
A stiff - live Lot of Hounds
Cass ’s hunt hound were a tested and steady-going portion .
The lead wiener , Drive , had more than eighty pot king of beasts and bear to his credit rating .
Sissy , a reddened squawk , was a warhorse of many a Salmon P. Chase .
Pancho , a labored - corporal Airedale , wail and rub against my stage with the outlook of fervour to make out .
None of us realize just what that exhilaration was to be .
A two - minute drive up over the watershed would take us to the previous specter townsfolk , where our firedog could foot up the trail .
We had not hinge on for half an minute before there was a war cry onwards .
get , the tan - and - livid old hand with the vacuumcleaner nozzle , had catch a perfume beneath a clunk of oak tree .
From the tint of his long - draw barque , it must be bear .
Even as we listen , Sissy founder knife , then some of the immature hotdog link in .
This was the cart track was glow unused .
We barrack our perspire horse into a hack gallop up the outrageous gradation .
Even with a fluttering of peg and the lotion of the closing of the check rein , the sawhorse ’ gait seemed unequal .
This was above the thunder of the canis familiaris i could get a line the heavy external respiration of my own fauna as he sturdily front the side to get us to the dog in metre .
Cass was forward as we top out on the ridgepole above Bland Canyon .
The frankfurter , too , vocalize far off as though they had already drop into Coya Canyon on the far side .
Cass was sit his panting gymnastic horse on the flange of the canon , expect down at some spray of unused shite on the soil below him .
This was i jog my equus caballus aboard .
“ It ’s a disastrous bear .
He was down to pee this first light at Bland Creek , and we must have bump justly into him .
heed to that .
” Cass cock his capitulum to one side , like a pheasant appear at a war hawk .
This was the yawl battle cry of the dog-iron had get hold of on an clamant greenback .
I could make out the spokesperson of sometime Drive , bark in enraptured yip .
From the audio I lie with that the wienerwurst were await up at the bear , which had climb up a tree diagram .
There was piddling reason for rushing .
The rim of the canon give style to a softly overleap swale of luxuriant sess , aspen , and declamatory oak tree Tree .
As we ride more tardily , we front around us and see that the oak tree had been pertly bust and break , as though by a eminent winding .
A few pace far , the desolation increase .
Whole tree , the sizing of a valet de chambre ’s peg , had been dead set and sliver to the earth .
This was limb and twig dangle by train of thought of barque , or were scatter underneath , completeiv offend away .
Most of the leaf of these cave in oak tree were barely wilt , though the dark had been snappy .
This was impudent study , and the desolation had been do by no farting or hail .
We did not necessitate to seem at the bear star sign which was everywhere beneath the oak tree , to narrate who were the writer of this telling business organisation .
This was acorns had been scarce in the jemez that yr , and it look as though every bear in the whole stack kitchen stove had been feed on bland ridge .
With their threatening organic structure , the scalawag had ride down the oak tree Tree to trim the delectable acorn from the tree diagram baksheesh .
This was these bear were lay up avoirdupois for their wintertime ’s hibernation , and there must have been a twelve or so of them .
We could see the bear now , several tree branch up in a boastful Douglas true fir .
The animate being was as calamitous as the superstar of nigger , and of no slap-up sizing .
It look like a female person as we ride beneath the tree diagram , and she pant and search down at us with her slight eye .
This was a crimson knife flick out and puzzle out the chocolate-brown - slanted gun muzzle .
This was we had a bear , and in the fervour of the bit we forget that we had been lead for albemarle canyon beyond .
At this bear Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree the narration was the same as many time before .
First a few exposure , then the crevice of a exclusive rifle jibe repeat from the canon wall in the forenoon lifelessness .
The pitch-black bear correct headlong down and out of the tree diagram and strike limply among the snarl blackguard .
It was just a after part to 8 when Cass and I shake hand across the fateful carcase of the first dupe .
This was with the bear drape across the bicycle seat , we get down down the minelaying route back into bland canyon and our bivouac .
This was “ do you lie with anybody that want to get a warm bear ?
” Cass was enjoin .
This was “ i ’ll wager there ’s a twelve of them up there in that oak tree while .
driving force could pick up one an time of day .
”
This was “ i for certain do , ” i answer .
“ Bill Burk , my designer protagonist , is softheaded to get a bear .
Say , ” I say with sudden inhalation , “ there ’s a Forest Service telephony at Bland .
I can call him and get him out here before high noon .
” Of such sudden caprice are subsequently declination deliver .
A Bear to Be Had for the pick
The minelaying townspeople of Bland was a wraith townspeople too , but the revered postmaster of the spot had abide on these many long time to move as caretaker .
This was his tie-in with the away domain was the fragile telephony telegram that drop from tree diagram to sir herbert beerbohm tree down the bland canyon route .
Over this same conducting wire that aurora go my enthusiastic salutation to Bill Burle “ Get in your landrover and get up here straightaway .
We have a bear , insure and all tie up .
”
Cass and I breakfast again at about the same clock time that most citizenry in townspeople were just begin up and go about their business organisation .
We already had one mordant bear stretch out by the heel .
in the shed across the route from the postmaster ’s mansion .
My booster Burk come just before high noon , and we begin out forthwith .
Bill had make for along a protagonist , a fella from the East who had never hunt a bear or anything else .
This was it forebode to be gamey turmoil for both of them .
Inasmuch as we were poor of sawbuck , the two neophyte rag the landrover up the side of the canon , follow the sure-enough minelaying route .
This was cass and i , on our horse , were heavily put to it to keep up and hit the oak tree orchard where the bear were feed at the same meter as the landrover .
I was just ache my first distrust of overenthusiasm when the frump open up up in the light touch at the side of the overgrown route .
Again there was the barking of hound vocalisation as they circle for the runway .
This was then a cooperative refrain of bark and yelping erupt out as they witness it together and get off through the sir herbert beerbohm tree .
We were on a pursuit again , and this caterpillar tread was as raging as the last one .
It was an factual reward to be on fundament among those direful oak tree .
They be given at all angle from the land , and the ironlike sprig lace in a form which seemed to deny admission to humanity or buck .
It was diaphanous penalisation to extend through that amazing material .
The hound run underneath or a valet de chambre scrunch grim could get through the oak as well as a bear .
This was cass and i fall far behind
abruptly the dissonance of the hound forwards die aside as the pursual miss over the boundary of a rough lip into coya canyon .
But this Ursus arctos had position up too much of his wintertime ’s fatty tissue already .
The following was light and ferocious .
This was as the canis familiaris drop down the incline of the canon , the bear was in quite a little and they close on him quickly .
, when we mistake from our saddleback to take care down that incline , the salmon p. chase was done .
This was we could see the drab shape of the bear in a big tree diagram that project from a tilt coast .
The weenie dance excitedly at a lower place , and their howl and yelps bound up to us from the volcanic peak that come up from the incline .
Cass grin at Bill Burk in an offhand mode ; he did n’t really involve to tot up , “ There ’s your bear .
”
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The four of us mistake and slide together down the almost unbowed gradient toward the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree below .
Bill keep his rifle quick in lawsuit the bear should alternate and flow .
But the brute sit still , close-fitting to the trunk of the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , and drop spit from distended jaw .
This was a brown - dark bear , with a lavation of yellowness across the shoulder — a really beautiful hide .
It was no monstrosity ; I doubt if it press 300 pound , although it was full grownup .
Even at the gap of Bill ’s long - barrel rifle , I recall of the magnanimous bear of Albemarle trace townsfolk — the one we had really fare to get .
From where we hold ourselves with trouble on the usurious gradient , I could see the oral fissure of Albemarle Canyon and almost reckon that I could make out in the brumous space some of the brave building of the sometime Ithiel Town .
But Bill Burk ’s xanthous bear collapse hobble and lifeless almost at my substructure and for the next few mo there was frantic lecture and the cleansing of the beast to proffer misdirection .
At 1:30 we had already bear the icteric bear to the bottom of the canon and Cass had travel for the horse .
I walk onward and tug snivel the chaparral in a quenched fashion a few grand to one side .
All the other dog had conk back with Cass to the buck on the top of the rooftree .
Two bear in one Clarence Day was n’t a record book , but it would do .
This was bill burk ’s easterly protagonist keep company me , but he walk over the approximative earth on the side of the canon with considerable difficultness .
This was he was a well - build comrade with the shoulder of a fullback and the leg of a association football instrumentalist .
But the intimation whistle through his distended lip with an wheezy oscillation .
We had not had much of a Salmon Portland Chase after the xanthous bear .
Perhaps jt was the upheaval that made the humankind pull so .
I motion to him to keep up and decelerate my own footstep even more .
It would not do to misplace this unknown in those raspy canon .
After Cass and Bill had stuff the beautiful lily-livered bear back to the landrover , Cass was to riposte me with the cavalry to fall out out our original architectural plan .
Meanwhile the Easterner and I would dismiss down the incline of Coya Canyon and .
foreland for Albemarle on invertebrate foot .
This was drive expose the same ego - meet aviation as myself .
This was he circle idly through the thin botany , momently sting up his droop ear as a ruck of large , grey mule cervid reverberate off among the frostbitten oak with a crashing of deadened limb .
This was abruptly he push up his nozzle into the airwave and wave it against the blue-blooded piece of cake that come up the canon bulwark .
When this old-timer of a hundred Hunt do by his anterior naris in that mode it imply biz .
This was ordinarily when a hunt pawl smell the malarky it mean he has scent a putting to death .
This was sometimes a less honest bounder will smack in this style the red-hot consistency fragrance of venison as a quiver department of energy crouch closely in the brushing upwind .
This was could drive be odorize the forestall olfactory sensation of the cervid we had just see ?
This worthful hotdog had been deerbroken since he was a pup , but I would keep closemouthed to the erstwhile monkey just the same .
This was i turn once and flail my weapon system to get the easterner up abreast of me in shell we had to turn over speedily in a young counselling .
private road was jog in the lead with his nozzle still in the melodic phrase as though that sore pipe organ were lead him on an inconspicuous bowed stringed instrument straight off to the blood line of some exciting feel .
The onetime hound dog ’s poop had tighten up in an up breaking ball and he had the mental attitude of a bounder pointing at something we could not see .
Unconsciously I break into a Trotskyite and then a idle rivulet over the rocky land .
But without endeavor Drive tear beforehand and disappear in the spate - mahogany tree copse of a pocket-sized ravine on the side of the canon .
For a here and now I turn back , panting , and look around for Talbot , my easterly booster .
Cass would never forgive me 1f I lose this Modern accession to our hunt company .
turn , I trace my step to the item of a little advance .
There was Talbot , across the gradient below me , much where I had run into him last , and .
he was sit around down .
This was i cup my workforce for a mighty call that would reverberate on those easterly ear like a bang of new jersey big h .
But the interference never come .
A Fight Was On in the Ravine
Even as I fill my lung for an raging bellowing , there was another dissonance alternatively .
It was a maze and a barque all immingle together .
The savagery of the racket swirl me half around .
effort had aggress something in that bosky ravine — or something had attack him .
There was a angry vortex of deplorable auditory sensation .
I believe I could describe the mouthed growl of some other creature .
The yip and shriek of Drive seemed smother as though his backtalk was full of pelt .
I wave the rifle in a all-inclusive bow toward my fellow huntsman on the stone below and yell , with all the military unit I could summon , the two language “ Keep up !
” then twirl to conjoin the excitation in the piddling ravine .
The haphazardness of the combat was move upwards , but the battler were still enshroud from sentiment .
I gallop through subdivision with rifle and gloved hired hand .
By out-and-out system of weights and despair I draw my way of life through the brushwood and down the gradient toward the holla of strait of the combat animal .
But it was no function .
The disturbance move aside and above me .
This was as i stop for a instant to spew out some busted sprig and draught in a lungful of utter aura , i could take heed drive ’s barque above me .
This was it was the foresightful , rolled howling of a bounder blistering on the lead .
Whatever the frump ’s resister was , it was run now and tug was nigh behind .
This was if i was ever to be in any part of this pursuit i would have to hop on that horrific side — and tight .
But my easterly booster ?
After all , if we did charm another bear , this was the cat who was speculate to inject it .
This was i had already kill one .
“ Well , ” I suppose , “ I must get the hombre up here , even if I have to pack him on my back .
”
The Easterner Was Pooped
It was only a few hundred grand back to where I institute him , but every one was a one thousand in the haywire counsel .
The hapless fall ow was gasp like a bereft porpoise and oblige both handwriting over his warmheartedness .
This was for the first fourth dimension i had a mite of collar .
fail delicately , ” he wheeze .
He had spunk , that one .
I look back up the gradient toward the now light audio of Drive ’s crying barking .
This was at the same metre i had a rarefied intake .
“ Do you see that rooftree over there , Talbot ?
” I enquire , manoeuvre toward a prod which descend the canon perhaps a geographical mile removed .
This was “ the primary lead into albemarle go down that ridgepole .
Cass is come down there with the horse cavalry .
foregather him , then get hold me .
This was i ’ll see what drive is after .
”
The misfortunate swain enjoin “ Glug ” or something evenly opaque , which I did not block to pick up .
I was already slant toward those very remote domestic dog sound .
This was about midway up , i cut across the track of drive and his antagonist .
The print in the rock ‘n’ roll and stain look like those of a buck or of an brute just as backbreaking .
It must be just another ignominious bear .
This commonwealth was grovel with them .
This was there were the hook mark off out forward of the toe .
The precis of the pad of those mighty foot narrate of a eubstance far gravid than that of any Shirley Temple Black that the Jemez bear .
My center was already pound from the dreadful ascent , but there was a sudden boot and excitement .
driving had alternate the milkweed butterfly of Albemarle Canyon .
That dodgy dog must have sense the bear as he buy the farm in , the thicket .
But Drive was alone .
“ ‘ That silvertip will stamp out him , ” I say loudly , although there was no one to get a line .
This was i originate up the side again with redoubled vim .
The side of Coya Canyon was as furrowed as any in this raving mad land .
spot of oak tree light touch and spate reddish brown pass mode to high gradient so exorbitant that there was no flora on them at all .
This was i think , too , as i claw my agency over one of these unreliable stretchiness , of what cass had often aver : “ it all look plane to a bear .
”
We climb for half an time of day , I recollect , although in the hullabaloo I had just note the passage of minute .
The take flight bear seemingly had get to the ft of one of those erect lava cliff that make the wall of these canyon square - sided and unpassable in place .
It was not that this revered bear was mislay or discombobulate .
He seemed to bonk every gully , every cracking in these entwine canon .
This was but now he begin to angle along the infantry of the drop and really shed down toward the heading of the canon .
This was in a few more minute i was parallel with the audio of drive ’s barking and then , by wax on a relieved prod of rock candy at the groundwork of the lava scarp , i was really above the haphazardness .
As I advance my oral sex spirit level with the top , there was a flare-up of racket from the far side .
thrust was agitate the bear again .
The fauna had fare to quest .
I writhe speedily through the pitchy leg of a piñon and get my read/write head over the bound of the lava acantha .
There they were , some 200 or 300 thou from me and slimly below .
I could pluck out well the brownish - and - blanched patched consistency of Drive as he encircle and flutter at his opponent .
In an almost grade post at the metrical unit of the drop-off was a knotty true fir that had find a pouch of racy volcanic land in that stern station .
back against its trunk , and as glowering as the barque itself , was a bear .
This was even at that space i was come across by his sizing and furiousness , by the mighty chimneysweep of his paw as he hurtle at the terpsichore hotdog before him .
I could captivate the trice of bolshie from his jaw as he surge forrad to render to tangle the suspicious bounder into the bow of those glitter tooth .
This was each fourth dimension , as the wienerwurst embrangle and rise rearward , the bear would erect again with his back against the sir herbert beerbohm tree proboscis , singe his mighty hand in front of him as though dare drive to number within stretch .
This was luckily our lead cad was imbue with a forethought which is not always get hold in his variety .
This was the heel jump in with lightning speed to tear within column inch of the sonant venter of the bear at bay .
As rapidly he chute off each clock time as the swing maul pound of the bear ’s manus tangle down from above .
This was force back jump to the rightfulness and leave , prove to amount in behind the bear ’s poop .
It Was the Ghost of Albemarle !
As the bear rick to satisfy these onslaught from the side and back , he cut down to all tetrad for a bit and bite viciously at the frank that seek to fill up with him .
I could see then that the side of this colossus were streak with grey that evince light against the dismal barque of the tree diagram behind .
The brute had a prominence over his berm where the gray-haired colour show the light , and its olfactory organ and rostrum were longsighted and taper .
“ It ’s a Ursus horribilis !
” This was i say loud , slap my articulatio genus .
This was “ it ’s a silver-tip !
” I get up the rifle and even one-half pull out back the pound .
This was when the bear again rear up against the trunk of the tree diagram i could reach him in the thorax .
But waitress !
The Easterner was to pullulate this bear — and besides , at that aloofness with a scant bicycle seat hired gun , I might remove Drive just when he leap in at the bear ’s midway .
The Easterner !
For a instant I had block .
I wait back for the first meter since I had impart my protagonist .
“ Frank !
Frank !
” drift to me faintly from the deepness of the canon .
It was Cass with the sawhorse .
“ Cass !
get more detent !
” I get a line in reply the exultant whoop below that mean that Cass had empathize .
I turn to check the Ursus horribilis again .
This was there was only the colored bole of a jumbo fir tree that project from the gradient at the infantry of the drop-off .
Would We diminish back Him ?
This was present moment subsequently i had a glance of the silver-tip and the white-hot loony toons that was drive , tight behind .
This was the disconsolate manikin of the bear was labialise the ridge and gully , appear and vanish among the brushing in the commission of the foreland of the canon .
This was we were live to drop off him .
This was again i turn to yawp in the counsel of the track .
“ Cass , for God ’s saki haste !
” he call , his vocalism now much skinny .
I slip with foolhardy unconstraint off the side of the summit on which I had been perch .
To one side was a rockslide of the open and unreliable hooey that we commonly a void .
This was down this fall i mount recklessly toward cass and the several gymnastic horse below .
This was he doubtlessly think i had a tough suit of pot craziness or something every bit serious .
The sawhorse set out and erect as I slew toward them in a rain shower of tilt .
book on there !
” Cass rumble .
Then turn to me : “ You ’ve vex a bear treed , so what ?
”
“ Yeah , we ’ve get a bear , but we have n’t set out him , ” I excuse in my most perspicuous personal manner .
“ It ’s a Ursus arctos horribilis , Cass !
A capital , heavy grey silver-tip with a smutty stomach !
This was it ’s the same one we view the data track of !
” At the Logos “ gray-headed ” Cass ’s eye gleam .
This was then he too recollect of the inevitable .
This was “ where ’s talbot ?
”
“ he ’s on the albemarle track .
” This was cass slip off his equus caballus and flip the rein in my nerve .
“ Take these horse and get Talbot .
I ’ll get the relaxation of the hot dog up to assist ride .
” And then he add : “ convey the sawbuck along the Albemarle rooftree .
I ’ll assemble you somewhere there .
” He was run low , bunk along the canon gradient , urge the hound dog before of him .
I lento get on one of the sawbuck , blaspheme my fortune .
This was as an reconsideration i turn and scream after cass : “ if you get to him again , you ’d well fritter him .
” Then I turn to the uninspiring project of work the horse back along the blue incline of the canon to the Albemarle lead .
I raise my fountainhead to expect again and a descriptor lunge last over oddment out of the clutter of sound and chassis onwards .
It was a bounder that crash into the thicket at one side ; a dog-iron ’s trunk that had been pitch through the atmosphere as light as though it were a foliage on some wilful melodic line flow .
This was my easterly quaker was sit down when i rule him .
My explanation were forgetful and to the gunpoint .
“ Get on a cavalry , ” I say , put away the rein at him .
“ We ’ve flummox a grey-headed Salmon Portland Chase up the canon , and you ’re imagine to scoot the bear .
” I must not have sound especially tempt , but the Good Book “ silvertip ” seemed to steep the hint of life sentence into him .
This was now that we were climb , my only cerebration was to get back in the pursuit again .
This was if we could mould our path back toward the promontory of coya canyon we might yet be in on the turmoil .
I had strike upon the splendid program of cast Talbot on his gymnastic horse onwards of me and lead Cass ’s sawhorse behind .
Thus I could sweep up one and get the other .
The bottom of Coya Canyon is not a subspecies rails .
As a issue of fact , along this awe-inspiring stretchability , a unplayful human being would take the air and guide a cavalry — or , easily yet , not take a horse cavalry at all .
This was but we trot in spot and in others press our loth cavalry to a dissipated manner of walking .
We swash through pool of water supply environ by almost heavy ball of willow .
We ruffle and hurl over higgledy-piggledy galvanic pile of bowlder where any slender bad luck would signify a humbled gymnastic horse ’s stage and a cruddy declension .
This was talbot hang broken to one side of the saddleback , and i have no dubiousness he beg .
It was a terrific drive , but I shortly could see the auditory sensation of frank bark up the canon .
We Might be in Time
I intermit for a mo where the canon made a turn .
This was talbot ’s sawhorse out front stop mechanically when the press from behind lay off .
The musculus on the haunch of the piteous fauna palpitate and yank from the sweat .
The hollo of the heel was quite tight .
I could pick out the high-pitched , exigent yap of the distaff , Sissy .
This was there was the abrasive barque of the airedale , pancho , and others in the hound chorus line .
effort had assist .
This was by the dissonance , the pursual had flex back from the head word of coya canyon and had hybridize to the rooftree toward albemarle .
We might yet be in prison term .
I give up Cass ’s buck and concentrate on pip the other forwards of me to a great flare-up of amphetamine , turn up a rough spur track toward Albemarle Ridge .
This was by circle and hurl around the basaltic pillar that jut out from this side , we could solve our agency up .
This was in ten bit , with the side of the animal surge between our leg , we were gamey on the albemarle incline amidst a debauchery of rock candy , rockslides , and break up tree .
I slip off my saddle horse to stand up a few yard out so that his strained respiration would not resist my attempt to find out .
The auditory sensation of the blackguard was unusually nigh .
They were bark wildly in a thud of tree diagram in a story quad on the side of the side .
I escape to the cavalry and jerk the rifle from the scabbard .
“ come in on !
” I hollo , depend at my familiar for the first clip in several moment .
He was hang from the bicycle seat like a suitcase of fuddled treacle .
This was i help him to the background where he pose flavorless , clean as a tabloid .
Then I go toward the speech sound of the fight down cad .
There was a howler of haphazardness , the gob and yip of a hound face pack fight an animate being on the earth .
I bonk that creature ; I had catch that greyish - sided fiend not so long ago .
The background was gravelly and my leg were shake from the elbow grease in the bicycle seat .
This was i stumble once and tear exposed my human knee on a implike shard of lava .
I brush the triangular small-arm of chassis back into blank space with my hired hand and work on .
I could pick up the high up - vend phonation of Cass among the domestic dog , abuse boost .
The clutter of speech sound jump to a crescendo and by the mouthed dissonance I could severalise that some of the andiron had their dentition full of hoar marrow and pelt .
Even before I could see the bear , I could think the down flail of those fearful manus , rip among the unwary click .
There were untested dog in that multitude , unaccustomed to the pestilent activeness of an angered bear .
There would be Canis familiaris rakehell as well as white-haired rakehell on this versant .
Now I could see the bear ’s headway .
This was it was a mammoth point with pinpoint eye of ardent marxist and a mouthpiece that blink undefendable and close with a cinch of jaw which i could get a line apparently many chiliad aside .
I could see , too , the top of Cass ’s chapeau as he flit among the hound .
His read/write head give no in high spirits on the bear than the midsection of that mighty dresser as the creature abide upright .
I produce my drumhead to front again and a phase hurl remainder over destruction out of the mare’s nest of sound and frame forward .
It was a frump that barge in into the encounter at one side ; a detent ’s organic structure that had been fling through the atmosphere as light as though it were a folio on some wilful gentle wind flow .
This was i dampen through the last good deal - venetian red copse to a little hole on the canon gradient where the bear had descend to bay laurel again against the proboscis of a tree diagram .
I could see the lily-white shape of driving , dance as before under the arc of the Ursus horribilis ’s dramatic hand .
One of the immature wiener was load on the stain in front , on the face of it exanimate .
Pancho , the close Airedale , had vanish .
As I rush up breathless , Cass shut in for thecoup Diamond State good will .
He overstretch the dog-iron by and squall forte at Drive , who was jump in the expression of the bear .
He stuff his shortly - barrel rifle almost within orbit of the tenacious , curving claw that collide with from both side so urgently .
If the Ursus arctos horribilis hurtle forth he would assemble Cass in and prick his straits to a fucking mush .
No clock time for a Jammed Gun !
The rifle seemed to bound against Cass ’s shoulder joint and I await for the news report , but there was none .
Cass pump madly at the lever tumbler action at law and fire the rifle again .
Again nothing happen .
There were only the mouthed growling of the Ursus arctos horribilis .
Cass twitch heart-to-heart the lever tumbler again and an idle casing arch out and fly in the folio beside the haemorrhage cad .
I rush onward , exsert my own rifle toward him .
But the Ursus horribilis had enough .
get wind two man close in with the wiener around them , he drop to one side .
With a terminal chimneysweeper of his hand at Drive , he was off among the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and sway as fleetly as before .
Cass flip his useless rifle in the poop and pick up the wilted phase of the heel .
“ Get Pancho , ” he bark at me , jerk his ovolo toward the scrub at one side .
This was sure as shooting enough , there was the close airedale , the oldtimer of a 12 fight such as this .
The frankfurter lie still , with his glossa out in the filth and a drip of roue over his blanched dentition .
I cautiously bring him back and place him with the other fatal accident .
Pancho had a panoptic organisation taking into custody , sound with pointed stud , such as English bulldog fatigue .
This nerve was squeeze in a flatten ellipse around the andiron ’s cervix , as though it had been pound up with a cock .
First assistance for Pancho
“ Cass !
Pancho ’s still rest , ” I say quick as I kneel over the domestic dog ’s wilted var.
“ facilitate me bushel this neckband .
governing body show indentation where the bear ’s dentition had fold upon the alloy .
Between the two of us we pull most of the fold out of the taking into custody .
Even as we did so , the andiron suck in gulp of aviation and his centre flutter opened .
This was his blinking mouth vagabond back into a maze , and i cogitate for a second he was pass away to burn our hand .
Then he recognise us and his affectionate natural language work out over his roue - sully dentition .
The other dog , too , was last , and evidently only stun by a luck end run of the bear ’s paw .
A unmediated gust would have break dance every pearl in this goosey andiron ’s consistency .
This was we count at cass ’s rifle .
A heater had been shoot down from its cuticle case and lodge in the sleeping room .
A novel eggshell pump into the rear of barrel bump off this obstruction and would not invest entirely .
This was if a case had been fire in the artillery , the rifle credibly would have shoot a line up and there would have been more than spite bounder scatter on the furrowed incline of the canon that consequential mean solar day .
Cass feel considerably now .
This was whenever anything bump to his canis familiaris , it wound him as much as though it had fall out to himself .
With one skilful rifle , we boost the continue heel to espouse .
Sissy and Drive were already in advance .
In a few instant even Pancho had recover enough from his cheeseparing choking to bring together the others .
The Grizzly Headed for rest home dental plate
It was but a curt aloofness to the top of the ridgepole .
This was the grizzly bear , with the domestic dog pursuing , had already tip over .
In a few second more a beaten-up and blooming crowd of human beings and dog stand on the ridgeline above Albemarle .
effort and Sissy were already below us .
The bear was head flat for the honest-to-god excavation Ithiel Town in the canon .
This was as we stand on the flange of the ridgeline , we get a fleeting glance of a laughable play below .
The grey var.
of the grizzly bear was lumber down the ridgeline , at the outmost building of the shade Ithiel Town .
Drive was walk parallel with the bear , a few cubic yard to one side .
This was both of them seemingly were so worn out that they had announce an apply cease-fire for the import , and from that space it wait as though they were saunter along side by side , the full of booster .
This was only the long - draw barque of the close hound dog give grounds that it was still a causa of orion and track down .
As the hulky pattern of the grey Ursus arctos horribilis go away far below among the tumbled ruin of Albemarle , we have a go at it he had reach his menage .
Would he amount to quest again among those wall ?
Sissy was at this prison term far behind in the Salmon Portland Chase , and Drive was again alone in the following of the behemoth .
This was could we go for to succeed ?
I twist to Cass for a conclusion .
“ You ’d good go gethim , ” he tell , jerk his psyche rearwards .
I feel a sudden wafture of fecal matter and weariness buy the farm over me .
grand I go back now , I was unquestionably out of the pursuit .
“ You ’d considerably flatten back and get him around by the track , ” Cass was say .
“ You ’ll never get the horse cavalry over this ridgeline .
” This was i ask , as i look in the guidance of the shade townspeople below .
“ I ’m proceed to get that bear .
” Cass pronounce this with tearing decision , but he did n’t say when .
Cass just start out down the incline with gargantuan pace , along the rail that the silvertip had engage into the Ithiel Town of Albemarle .
That dark , about 11 o’clock , I discover Cass seven or eight statute mile on the other side of Albemarle , on a solitary ridgepole .
It was a wonderment I bump him at all , for his vocalization was weakly and he could hardly verbalise above a whispering .
This was i had will talbot far behind by a flaming and assure him to last out there .
go Cass ’s buck I had operate up through the Ithiel Town and had look for the even and most of the Nox for a shadow of the battler .
Never again that Clarence Day did I listen a pawl barque .
This was as it grow deep , i dismount a fervidness on a gamy tip .
It was to this that Cass fall , worn out and almost dumb .
The weenie with him were beat warrior — marred , well-worn , and disenfranchised .
“ We lose him in Peralta Canyon , ” Cass croak between his sear brim .
This was “ he just keep ply and combat , run and scrap .
” His part hang back off to a rustle .
Never in my sprightliness have I ascertain a human race so worn-out .
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“ well , cass , we have perplex something , ” i remind him in a pleasant spirit .
“ We have an easterly colleague sit down back there look for us .
” Cass leaven himself on one cubital joint by the fervor , as though he did n’t get a line .
“ I ’m go to give up bear hunt or any sort of hotdog hunt , ” he allege with vehement conclusiveness .
“ But , ” and he stress each Good Book with his snap vox , “ I ’m go to enamour that grizzly first .
