Show j BOYS - but the ’ usut I nature little “Y-yes like AVliilc m-inake he-replied: - ‘ 'im for stlckln’ to signed no hain't “W’y ’ contract “No’l who was beginning to Long understand what Hurns was driving atre what they “Are you satisfied "with payin’ you?” ain’t payin' me nothin “They a gentleman o’ leisure myself”Nelson Mr exactly true This was not all paying the expenses of the was regard this not party but Jim did as compensation exactly Robinson “You don’t say so!” exclaimed in surprise with a “Oil come away!” said Burns to of incredulity “Don try put jerk anything like that over on us Long Done you “Wbv?” asiked look too much like believe me? Do fn farmer?” n rmor at’ “Yoii replied Robinson i’Not all” like But thought look a gentleman we guide for your party you wcrc-thc But Tin taking a pleasure “So trip amI’ve this island been all over an’ to show the an’ agreed come along others about”to the hear that "L’m glad as his sensitive said Robinson longer bothering conscience were- no him "you said you’d like to earn some why not talce our offer Now money 'and make your trip one of profit as well as pleasure?” "What’s your offer replied Lurns “A thousand dollars extravagant in his who always "Wc’ru gentlemen of money an cups Only blood— b’long to the nobility see? wc had older wo’ve got no titles 'causeleft lots o brothers But our papasa fig us for titles dough We don't care dough do we when we’ve got the Robinson “Keep’ still replied Angus” “You ou'glit to know enough not you’re drunk” to talk when Don drunk Chester “I'm not could baircl more carry me Chester You know my capacity “We're getting off Robinson “We were talking about Long to guide us on our hunt yju Mroffered him a thousand dollars you U Chestio” replied did “To- be sure "And I’d like to write him out Burns check right now if so hell ugiee Arupis anything ras “Don’t do ’J fed be a tool if ndvised Robinson off Any man ’With ho run ought as fool with his money acts that he You see to be treated like a foot ''ftnUto "we wouldn added suavely to a contract wit WMi break ask vou liiohly of for think very Nelson we vou have no contract him but since our why not Come with us and accept thousandWo won’t give you money? dinars foolish we that would be figure for two let' own name your you up replied UonK friends” tree myreplied - 1-m - t ' ’ l‘ ' arrangements busy with Mr Nelson for the bear hunt daily Ralph and Archie made short near-by hills This excursions over the of with the hope they did not so much aS bagging game for the purpose of native getting into practice with the guide had and arrows that thfeir bows obtained for them bows were made of whalebone Those They and wero about four feet long the stronger were stout affairs and madeback The ar-rows along the by sinew cord twisted and were of walrus hide while somewhat flexible dried so that They wero they were extremely elastic tipped with vJhalebone their One evening about a to week after leading the hotel arrival Jim returned an’ animal that Itfilled Ralph and Archie with delight was a dog that Long looked like a small Newfoundland made called him “Tdhort” a name that laugh the boys CAT got tho ’Long’ and “We’ve now thO nnw nf it’ ntit'D T— U H r — "TVhnrt L call do VMOV him ‘Tehort’ “What you Mr‘ong’’ for him 'You’ll nna out when you see with asget after a boar” replied Jim Long was r 1 1 ’ I t 1 I I 1 1 I PAPER GIRLS' AND Englishmen they naturally thought of reply to Long’s him as Keeler In Archie inquired: last statement “How will he get their money?” repeated the hunter-guide How?” d’you think? Same way he got “How mine” "Do you suppose he’ll go with them asked Ralph on their hunt?” He’ll do anything “He will if he can for money” Kadiak island money is a scarce On article It did not take the boys long to find out that business in the place Is carried on almost entirely by barter The common substitutes for legal tender are pelts tusks whalebone and the two weather was not severely snow cold although cloudy About noon They ho met Robinson and Burns were coming out of a saloon and Burns fur seemed a little the worse what ho had imbibed “Here's the fellow who can help of difficulty” ca'd the latter our undue grasping Jim’s hand with an eagerness " “Well what can do for you?” asked Jim ingenuously He was not by a suspicious fellow “You probably can’t do anything for apparently a us” replied Robinson embarrassed he can” insisted Buras laya ing hand on the latter's shoulder gettin more’n he’s “We c’n’ offer im a Say Long how'd you like to thousand?” to finding out Jim had no objection what they wanted so “I’d be tickled to death” we’re the feL thought so Well “I the way o’ doin lows can put you in it Have you got a contract with Nel son?” “Contract? What for?” - I 1 1 I I '--va smell somethin' He was looking I right toward us saw it was tlhie to shoot and let loose My arrow was a for signal Tehort He shot ahead just as the arrow struck behind Old Midwit’s left It foreleg sunk deep and ought to killed him It hurt him awful that was plain He growled like thunder and kicked up the snow like a thrasbin’ get through much of it replied “They sleep most of the winter sometimes they get out kind o’ in the spring and find a good an’ lot o’ snow A boar can travel clear ground but when ho swift over When gets in deep snow he’s in trouble “They he’s the 'hillside he’ll on Every drift minute to catch him or there’s and then it takes him few miles” “I should think a to don’t Jim But early a roll like two he would it wftien he’s be snowball a strikes more fun whole day to so machine ‘Tehort bad through the snow faster’n we could travel very going a Sometimes easy alow” “What goin’ you asked Jim travel as to do?” for you to hard “It’s just as him” “Don’t they use snowshoes?” “Sometimes But they ain't enougih bears out that time o' tothetell year to make it the truth worth while and time to brag ain’t enough out any they about” Ralph and Archie looked doubtfully Both at Had they come all their friend rancisco only to be San the way from possible that they disappointed? Was in vain? Yes Kadiak bear might hunt it but only barely possible was possible in Lone who did not Jim of a good deal hesitate into express himself don’t get down in the mouth “I mean to he said reassuringly to didn’t the ground dash all yourto hopes let know how hard wanted you only to Kadiak bear It is to get a look at nothin’ o’ killin’ ’em so you’ll know sav when he puts how to ’preciate Jimo’ Long the real thing” you in arrowshot your experience with the “How about bpar dog remmaea replied Jim lets see yes” “Oh where was I?” sug“You hadn’t met the bear yet Ralph gested it I o n c confidence -“Now I 1 ' " fl ' I situation” s if NmH r V I 111 I )l ' 1 tr ' - ' t " A J I - 1 I I I I © (Wifi vAwM® J i in his bit at it He I I on ’im the bear good an’ hard kill him “It seemed impossible to When the dog was In a few feet o’ him he turned to fight Tehort was a brave dog and jumped at him I thought he knowed buj he showed was crazy sihoot any more’n did I didn't dare Tehort more for fear I’d hit the dog flew right into the arms o’ the bear and I thought he was a goner The bear o’ I thought down top him an' went on his back or neck or some-flyin’ he’d break and thin’ But thn enow keut on putrj’ soon I saw the dog crawl out from behind the bear He’d crawled clean under him “Then he turned and got hold ’a’o’ one o’ the It been bear’s hind legs must vise-grip death a for he held on like a top The big feller spun around like in his with Tchort’s ole broken teeth leg Then he suddenly stopped and laid still In the fight he’d drove the arrow In his side right into his heart” with Ralph and Archie were delighted it tJhis story the more so was true good At their request Jim told them a habits about the peculiarities and deal of Kadiak bears all winter or most “These bears sleep of it” he said “Once in a while theyit wake up an’ peek outdoors an’ find still cold and the ground covered with snowThat means back to bed again “Tlhev live in caves in the mounfhins and hills When Mr Bear wakes up in wobbly as a leaky the spring he’s as legs balloon He totters about on his like a baby that has to use a chair to irst walk he walks only a little ways but as the days go by he gets stronger Wihen he gets strong and stronger enough he goes further away from his He’s and gets to stayin’ out nights cave this awful hungry feller about tima an and will eat anything— kelp grass or It’s an’ at mostly kelp roots roots first “About June the salmon come up the an’ o’ streams he gets a new kind food He wades in the water an' stands in the middle o’ the stream and scoops the fish out with his big left paw He’s a lefthander this Kadiak bear He flips the fish out on the bank and then goes up an’ eats ’em” “Where did t’he natives of this island -he I s-ince in-suit come from?” asked Ralph “They’re replied Long ‘That’s about all know’ of ’em They’re called Aleuts also But they JIV’uMf really ain’t Aleuts ’cause they’re only part Russian and part Aleuts” “Are the Aleuts Indians?” asked Archie “No” replied Mr Nelson live ‘They are off Eskimos The real Aleuts west on the Aleutian islands” Three weeks passed before the hunters were able to make start on their hunting trip The reason for this delay was largely the inclemency of the weather In which was unusually severe tho Nelson and the boys meantime Mr familiar with the town of Kadiak its and neighborhood They made a number of short excursions when the weather permitted to places of Interest They visited a large fox farm on Long Island near Kadiak where there were nearly thousand blue foxes They went hunting for geese mallards and “V?n feller to' go fairly good not the kind ptarmigans and had to promise I’ve made a rrornise The boys were well pleased with my friends an the skill they acquired with their short go- on' this hunt with to stick to bone bows and were really convinced them I'm goin’ said Burns rna awful sorry that these weapons “Rorrv of were superior to the idea had an “T thought' you more long bows to they had been ac and But think over number one bear’ replied Jim1 for after a customed mU'be Vtell mind You’ll find out when you’ll change your you see him get These trips were made in baidarkas Live to decide till night tomorrow vou Nelson wished to take every As Mr time I’m Come to my rooms any but the “Well met one all right possible against fatal or serious “Tehort is the Russian word we surance y 'decldd "already” replied Jim on the level accident or misfortune he had two large for snow hewas three feet deep devil” fine ‘happened to come out in baidarkas built for their during How ever use '“Vou don't ned to give me no time a horrid “What name for such a"7Pst Mebbe he don’t know their stay These canoes continued his such weather on the island he on looking animal” said Archie Goodby” sleep Mebbe were of strong elastic framework and Prince ‘Devil was nervous and couldn’t think of calling our had to find somethin’ found Mr Nelson he so hungry he covered with sea lion skins No was were “That might do for a bulldog but not he was to Anyway nails used in their construction to whom he told his Story for replied Ralph up on were bovs a greyhound” nnd tht roUm tied of Itobinson and Burns to in plain sight He come parts being together with tough glad there the of would have been he The boys of of indignant tumblin’ down big We was hide Each the and dried strips were Prince along but they knew the Rainh "hey Archietheir bring We feelings to themselves hid in a clump o’ cottonwood had three hatches in which the kept greyhound would be of little value m a laid of down in the snow and waited occupants knelt The decks were Jim gave his account as u sort boar hunk He had been a favonte for we could see Ole Midwit was headed skin stretched from gunwale to gunwale of concluding thus hunt for iokc with them many gentleman of on us” or rough weather the occupants was a to less but right for leisure “T tole an’ ’em or ferocious game smaller V as bear-gut seed jackets “Old Midwit!” exclaimed Ralph that you ought thought too much of were supplied with to Ralph and Archie it that lives with the old the big bear could be fastened the deck and thus him to risk his life in a figt with the glanced out of the man?” keep not only themselves dry but also largest of carnivora Nelson and as Midwits just of tih "uAhaxv do1 of 'Mr room for no” replied Jim a place Tehort the interior canoes to his with landlord found “No feet he sprang The for bear” novel experience for Ralph L'S in the Aleut name It “laSauSn surprise The other to shed at themixed-breed rear of the was sleep in that great big bear “But you 6poke and Archie but was not altogether followed hotel The dog was a Midwit1 just as that occupants of the room was Ms pleasant The weather was fitful and three There are many as Ola known as a “husky” having astronoms or native weather bn’nBathe walk of his Kadiak Island the kind on three men: were lou talk so is” replied Jim sometimes made mistakes bear ‘hunting “An' prophets been bred especially for were Robinson Burns at enough woli about Ole Midwitbe anywhere on Kadiak Rain or snow could be expected The crossed with the ey Thcv are tihe It’ll known right away although precipitation in island and time give them a cold any arm arm blood to if and Burns ’you the big is 20 less Titter what mean you mean at Kadiak per cent than St goin! Keeler’s got ’em appearance It the is depends on way you say at But the island swept by “ St” th’Ai about bear Sitka Jim Long told several stories evening When the Japan current a fact that accounti dogs on the lhe means” understanJ what surprisingly mild the temperature he brought Tehort back to the for Nelson "He that this frequent of had with Mr means falls rata and heavy and “I recollect one experience been spoken of so long great bear has and snow another dog when was there last” and so often as Old Midwit or Old Bear through the agency of Jim VIII he “I feller Tehort said called that Mr Nelson haa become a name for him It’s only he was that who proved very valuable as an too He was a fine beast Long of of Egypt the king teeth similar to the case interpreter engaged the servicesof two kind o’ old and had lost half his Boor Storie More oppressed the Israelites We think that These natives were the ones had had a good many bear natives“Tehort Pharaoh but that is only the of him as for the got hold o’ him As bis who built the two baidarkas fights- when OBINSON and Burns were stopThe Pharaoh This title of a line of kings they agreed to serve as loose jaws didn’t get and teethgot to hunters and might the hotel but they make bricks ping at who forced the Israelites be needed what happened as they weaker so you see long of tho ’risco party In without straw was Raineses II” of speak much them could the members "One day was huntin’ bear up Neither Keeler’ understand” said Ralph "But They t’be “I They spoke a mixture of English Saw little of' each other spruce timber This was after Aleuts snow?” how about the bear in the Both of them d my Aleutian and Russian stole xnf baldarkas and along all rignt— purty met occasionally and passedall the time "Oh he come being about 35 and the I’d another canoe and a couple hired ‘The wind were young 20one Their skins of slow though” replied Long day but that was about of were dark natives other about to so Nelson and the two boys had by biowin from him us he that Mr there two weeks before Nelson observed obey up was and Mr the name of “Wegot was this time almost forgotten There was nnnliWfr CTTTA11 US” a sight of a bear might even be mistaken for Japanese we as assumed by tlie man with huntin’ wiHi or bows Chapman then but they “Were you guns 6f natives tracks now and these waa Long’s positive- opinion-on One tho ?” asked Ralph Ralph eye through snowdrifts and He: the otaer led? arrows was away over the hills known as Dane Kuro tho subject' bad naturally caused of course never “Bows an’ in arrows And so over our heads” and was quiet and stolid looking Ha them to think: as he thought Kadiak The bear got lu tho bears get through the used a gunof SEVENS do ON PAGE when the four American bear hunters “How and stopped He seemed (CONTINUED fifty yards deep snow?” inquired Ralph enemy in company with the saw: Jim’s ' I o mixed-bloods” I jIsU I ''''-'n IM u hir-inc- 1 I I ZL I WM ’ - -was ’ a J I an’ run Ralph suggested troubles gettin’ couldn’t go much The bear turned to let drive another that stuck an’ He turned hind quarters lost and time Tehort gained stuck but before he caught up his Ml nair-nreeus— t b- it -didn’t a t became t 5 ’ a 11 -but ’ thewrong a backon' o’ - success a ' w-bich it l in-' precaution -I’Te -wayArVvedbthei-ehe I -And’ fill ' pXd although -hill a baidarkas -and almost com-panion a I emruds'pontbim ’ ' s ' a a t It o if ap-They it almost -3th fierce-eyed -were ex--55-hlhef ‘ t lt-“I bear-hunting interposed -hotel I I CHAPTER it - I j i I v half-breed a -glass I - |