measurements only as the hair was coming out of the skin in large patches and started on after the other bear which he found lying under a densely drooping fir tree surrounded by a thicket. He approached to within 30 feet of the bear before he saw that the bear was breathing heavily and twisting around. There was a dead calm without a breathe of air so that the bear didn't catch his scent and Russelborg waited anxiously for the drive light to get a shot at the bear's neck as he didn't want to spoil his bull. He kept seeing a large black object moving slowly back and forth so drew a bead so as to shoot what he supposed was the bear's neck. At the shot the bear turned a back somersault right towards the hunter and let out a muffled roar. But he was so surprised that he did not see the hunter standing beside a tree and made off with long rapid bounds down through the alders. It turned