The Gun, Rod And Saddle; Or, Nine Months in California
The Gun, Rod And Saddle; Or, Nine Months in California
Mast, Isaac. [from Old Catalog]
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To the triggers I adjusted small levers, and to them a heavy trout-line, so as to fire both barrels at once. I had fastened my line, drawn it to the proper tension, and was ready to cock the gun and leave. At that moment, I heard a cracking in the bushes just above, where I had come down, and looked up, thinking one of the horses had found me. Horrors! There was coming down, right for me, a brown bear! His nose was toward the ground, and he was coming over the .wild tansy in an easy gallop. He ...evidently wanted my carcass. Without the least intention of being polite on my part, my hat rose, I should think, near- ly an inch. "Betsy" was securely tied. I had no pistol, nor even a sheath-knife. My vocal organs were very defective. However, Digitized by Google 134 THE GUN, ROD AND SADDLE. they uttered a respectable " booh-wooh ! " The credit for the first part of that very natural expression belongs wholly to the bear, and I will not attempt to deprive him of it. But the second, I am conscious of having willed.
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