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! TAUGHT BY GRIZZLY. V eil Authenticated Slot)- of Remarkable Experience in the Wilds of British Columbia. Ulerary Digest. A low and sudden rumble like far-, avsay thunder stopped tli0 blood in the hunter's veins. He had not ex-' pected liis bear was within two or, three miles of him. It was in a wild , and unlimited part of the British Co-1, lutnbia mountains and he had gone out alone on this particular morning, ] leaving his man to follow with horses and the Airdale pack. A few days ] earlier the hunter haj come upon the trail of an enormous bear. In a patch i of mud the animal's feet had left!, tracks that were fifteen inches from j I tip to tip and so wide and deep were:' the imprints that he knew he had ' come upon a king of bears and forth- J with gave him the name Thor. From 1 that moment he was possessed with [ a great desire to kill the monster. In * his book "'God's Country" (Cosmo- * '' . pclitan Book) Corporation New 5 York,) James Oliver Curwood tells ? lio-w his experience with Thor was the | climax of his kunting days that turn- t ed him against thc wanton killing t of beasts. As he heard the rumble of 1 tile bear, he climbed a 1 Ittl0 1'i^o and 1 there he writes: < Ahead of lhe, on the edge of ti little 1 wallow and mud stood Thor. He had snielled me and I believe, it was the 1 first time he had ever snielled the J scent of man. Waiting for this new mystery in the air, lie had reared -himself pp until the whole nine feet of him rested on his haunches and he t sat like a. trained dog, with his great , fore feet, heavy with mud, drooping j in front of his clie3t. He was a nion- j jster in si7.e and his new June coatn shone a golden brown in the sun. 1 His forearms were almost a* large as a man's body and the three largest 1 of his five knifelike claws were five < and a half inches long. He was fat and sleek and powerful. His upper ! fangs, sharp as stilleto-points, werp ' as long as a man's thumb and be- 1 tween his great jaws he could have crushed the neclc of a caribou. 1 did not take in all these details in the ' first startling moments; one by one,' they camc to me later. But I hadj. never looked upon anything in life , qtiite so magnificent. Yet did I have no thought cf sparing that splendid life. My rifle was at my saddle horn' j In its buYk dun jacket. I fumbled it in s getting into action and in those pre- s cious moments Thor lowered himself ?and ambled away. I fired twice and 1 you'd have staked my life that I had r missed both times. Not until later did s I discover that one of my bullets had ? opened a furrow two inches deep and ' a foot long in the flesh of Thor's e shoulder. Yet I did not see him flinch. 11 He did not turn back, but went his ^ way. I Shame burns within me as I write:'1, of the days that followed; and yet,j with that shame, there is a deep and; ^ abiding joy, for they were also the;, days of my regeneration. Day and;,., night, mv one thought was to <lo- j stroy the big grizzly. "\Y(> never left L his trail. The dogs followed him likely demons. Five times in the first woek j we came within long shooting range.' p and twice wc hit him. But still he did >t not wait for u.s or attack us. He,a wanted to be left alone. In that week v he Killed lour oi the dogs and the i! others we tied ?P to save them. We h Its clean9 ^ flame cm ? t>correct t THIS is the rc a New Perl successful. You accurately to wit \ time you hake a 1 or cook a roast. y Instead of the old w L ' more often than no C experience with a N ^ how easy it is to get l You can adjust the r takes several minutt i method of a coal ra Over 3,000,000 hoi Perfection enjoy the Is- * and wood carrying . I n W o?c^^ ^ rn oUk ^ THE DILLON HI tiailed him with horses and afoot and never did the spoor of other same lure me aside. The desire to kill him became a passion in me. He outgeneraled me. lie beat all our games of trickery. But 1 knew that we were bound to win?that he was slowly weakening because of exhaustion and th0 sickness of his wounds. We loos-i ed the dogs again and another was killed. | And then at last came a day when1 Thor, master of the mountain, show-1 ed a magnanimity that madc the' hunter feel contemptible, for all his human shape and soul. He was climbing the mountain when lie had a mishap and the account runs: I Came to u sheer wall or rock that rose hundreds of feet abovc nio. Along this ran a narrow ledge and I followed it. The passage became uaggv and difficult and in climbing ~>vcr a broken mass of rock I slipped ind fell. 1 had brought a light mountain gun with nie and in trying to recover myself I swung it about with such force that the stock struck a sharp edge of rock and broke clean jff. But I had saved myself from possible death and was in a frame rath?r than to curse my luck. Fifty feet, arther on I came to a "pocket" in he cliff, where the ledge widened unil at this particular place, it was like i flat table twenty feet square. Here] uvwji, wnn my DacK to the pre-! lpitous wall arid began to examine ny broken ri.'li. I, I laid it beside me, useless. Straight ) ip at my back rose the sheer face of i he mountain; in front of nie, had I caped from the ledge, my body would lave hurtled through empty air for a liousand feet. And then, suddenly, there came a icund to my oars that seemed to stop he beating of my heart. I had not teard it until it was very near?ap>roaching along tlie narrow ledeg. It vas the click?click?click of claws attling on rock. I did not move. I hardly breathed. \nd out front the ledge I had follow?.l came a monster bear! With thn swiftness of lightning I eccgnized him. It was Thor. And, in he same instant, tlie great beast saw v.e. , In thirty seconds I lived a lifetime,! md in those thirty seconds what i tassed through my mind was a thou-; and tunes swifter than spoken words. \ great fear rooted me and yet in; hat fear I saw everything to the min-| llest detail. Tlior's massive head and houlders were fronting me. I saw he long naked scar where my bullet iad plowed through his shoulder; I aw another wound in his foreleg, till ragged and painful, where anotlit of my soft-nosed bullets had torn ike an explosion of dvnamite Th? :iant grizzly wag no longer fat and leek as I had first seen him ten days go. All that time he had been fight- 1 ng for his life; he was thinner; his yes were red; his coat was dull and 1 ir.kempt from lack of foo<i and 1 trength. But at that distance, less ' li-an ten feet from me, he seemed still 1 mighty brother of the mountains liemselves. As I sat stupidly, stunned . o the immobility of a rock in my our of doom, I felt the overwlielnitg conviction of what had happened. , hor had followed me along the , dge and in this hour of vengeance nd triumph, it was I and not the | :cat beast, who was about to die. , It seemed to me that an eternity:, assed in these moments. And Tlior, liglity in lii.s strength, looked at mo I lid did not move. 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Where was its burning lightning? Why did it make no sound? Slowly Thor's giant head began j swinging from side to side; then he advanced?just one step?and in slew, graceful movement reared himself to his full, magniflcant height.] For me, it was the beginning of thei end. And in that moment, doomed as I was, I found no pity for myself. | Here, at last, was justice! I was about' to die. I. who had destroyed so much of life, found how helpless I was when I faced life with .my naked hands. And it was justice! I had robbed the earth of more life than would] fill the bodies of a thousand men and! now my own life was to follow that ] which I had destroyed. Suddenly; fear left me. I wanted to cry out to! that splendid creature that I was sor-j ry and could my dry lips have framed the words, it would not have been 1 cowardice?but truth. For Thor knew me. That I know, i H-. knew me as the deadliest of all hi.-, enemies on the face of the earth.! Yet until I die will I believe that, in my helplessness, he no longer hated j me or wanted my life. For slowly he came down upon all fours again and i limping as lie went he continued along the ledge?and left me to live! I am not, in these days, sacreligious enough to think that the Supreme Power picked my poor insignificant self from among a billion and a half other humans especially to preach a' sermon to that glorious Sunday on j the mountainside. Possibly it was all ; mere chance. It may be that another! (\'A v Thnr wnnLl Imvo Ir.llrwl 1 helplessness. It may all have been a lucky accident for nie- Personally, I j do not believe it, for I have found j that the soul of the average beast is cleaner of hate and of malice thanj that of the average man. But wheth-j er one believes with me or not does not matter, so far as tlie point I want j to m-ake is concerned?that from this; hour began the great change in me, j which has finally admitted me intoi the peace and joy of universal broth-! pi hood with Life. I returned down the mountain, carrying my broken gun wi^h me. \ And everywhere I saw that things were different. The fat whistlers, bit?j as woodchucks. were no longer so many targets, watching mc cautiously Irom the rock-tops; the gophers, sun- ' ning themselves on their mounds, meant more >to me now than a few i hours ago. I looked off to a distant sltde on another mountain and made out the half dozen sheep I had stud-' ied through my glasses earlier in the! day. But my desire to kill was gone. I did not realize the fulness of the! change that was upon me then. In a dull sort of way I accepted it as an ef-; feet of shock perhaps as a passing' moment of repentance and gratitude because of my escape. 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