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Show THE GRIZZLY OF OLD DAYS. His Ferocity and Vitality Made Him a Terror to Hunters. In the old days, before the deadly magazine rlllo was Invented, hunting tho grizzly wns n very different affair, and no animal on tho American continent conti-nent wns moro dreaded, his fierceness and vital force when wounded lining tho most reckless hunters with a wholesome dread. It was not ut all unusual for a grizzly with a bullet through his heart pursue and tenr to pieces tho hunter, whose long, single-barrel single-barrel muzzlc-londlng riflo, with Its ono round load bullet, was altogether Inadequate for such a contest. It is a strange thing, too, that while the grizzly bear Is nn umulverous feeder, living on anything from roots and nuts to steer and buffalo jneat, ho has never been known to'evour hnman flesh. From J. M. Qleeson s "Tho Drizzly Bear" In St. Nicholas. |