I can rustle a
few dogs to take along if you want them, and pretty good dogs, too;
but I am not strong for them myself only in this way, to put them
on the trail of a bear and take a good horse apiece, so that we
could get up to the chase and have a chance to land on him. This
might be a good thing to try if all others failed.
"I know how you feel about killing clean with the bow and not
having any shooting, and I can assure you that I would let 'em get
just as close as you want them, and not feel any concern about
their getting the best of anybody, and you would have a chance to
use the bow well in this case; but I am more prone to think they
will beat it off with a lot of your perfectly good arrows than
anything else.
"Yours truly,
"NED FROST."
It was apparent from the first that dogs were of little use in taking
grizzly. It would be necessary to shoot from blinds set conveniently
near bait. Frost assured us that bears of this variety, when just out
of hibernation and lean, would run out of the country if chased by a
pack of dogs, and incidentally kill all that they could catch.
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