I didn't have the pleasure of lookin' at him so close as you did, Jimmy.

If I had we'd been dryin' his skin now!" "And he's in his prime ?" "Between eight and twelve years old, I'd say, by the way he went up the slope.

An old bear don't roll so easy." "You've run across some pretty old bears, Bruce ?" "So old some of 'em needed crutches," said Bruce, unlacing his boots.

"I've shot bears so old they'd lost their teeth." "How old ?" "Thirty--thirty-five--mebby forty years.

Good-night, Jimmy!" "Good-night, Bruce!" Langdon was awakened some time hours later by a deluge of rain that brought him out of his blankets with a yell to Bruce.