If it had been any steeper I would have used my teeth." Langdon sat up, knocked the ash out of the bowl of his pipe, and reloaded it with fresh tobacco.
"Bruce, that's the biggest grizzly in the Rocky Mountains!" "He'd 'a' made a fine rug in your den, Jimmy--if yo'r gun hadn't 'appened to 'ave been under you." "And I'm going to have him in my den before I finish," declared Langdon.
"I've made up my mind.

We'll make a permanent camp here.

I'm going to get that grizzly if it takes all summer.

I'd rather have him than any other ten bears in the Firepan Range.

He was a nine-footer if an inch.