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and stuck her nose up and sniffed
around to see if she could locate the
cause of the disturbance. This was
Hasselborg's chance. The first bullet
from the 45-70 struck like in the throat
passed between her shoulders and tore
on down thru one lung and passed
out thru the belly. She got up again
with a kind of half groan-half roar
and 14. Shot twice more one of which
broke her neck. As she fell she
grabbed the head of a dead salmon
in her mouth and chewed it savagely.
She had it grasped so firmly in her
garvs that we had to pry them apart
the next day to get the fjels out. This
was a 9 that had evidently just meaned
her cubs. She was 5 ft. 10 inches long
and was evidently an old bear. She was
beginning to put on fat and her stomde
was stuffed full of salmon. Her fur
was nothing but hair which was
thick glossy and uniform in length
over most of the upper parts. The
bear by this time had begun to