Show IN A IIBAM COUNTRY Hi nt OK rmMhl tnim l < In II 1Itw I believe I got as big a bag of bear In 8S short a time is any man eve did laid Ilse fltsdley the ex8hrlK and bearhunter of Mendlclno to a San 1rnncUco reporter A bg of belral exclaimed tile yomg man who had Just been telling about bag of snipe be bad once killed What were they little fellows what Is It you call them kittens no cubs thats It IhatlNo No sir 1 they were nol kittens or rubs They were bears declared Doc I think piled I up about n ton of bear meat In about thirty second I was out hunting In the southern part of Trinity county about setentccn or eighteen jean ago We hid kilted about forty deer and three panthers and a bear or two In n couplo of week and veto prellY near ready to break camp when I thought I would RO out and kill another deer to take homo fresh It was Into In the afternoon and I was I creeping along through the brush when suddenly I ramp out Into o little opening I open-ing I stopped to sea If there wan any sign of deer and whllo I stood looking nbout n big black l bear climbed up ou the trunk of a big fir treo that had been Ir uprooted l 110 I w asnt thirty yards away nnd plugged him In tho car Ho rolled off tho log unit down tho hill toward me but before I had limo lo tec If ho was dead another bear climbed on tho tamo log to lIDO what tho row was about I shot It In the held and It 1 rolled down Iho tamo way thin other had gone 1p climbed n big two yenroltl to take Its place and after I hud shot It 1 two big yearling ono after the other clambered clam-bered up on Ibo log to bo shot icry ono rolled down ilia hill toward mo and were klcklu and thrashing around not ten stops away Ilr that time I eama ta thin conclusion that I was In a bear country and I dlilnt lose any limo ollrablng a sapling Whin I got well braced up among Iho llmba I wit and pumped lead i at that pile of bear every time ono Kicked I gave him n bullet till they nil slopped kicking kick-ing I bad nto beers In one pile and I think they mutt Into weighed over a ton altogether |