"I fired on the bear, but only hurt him enough to make him ugly.

I fell right over him while I was after a deer I had wounded some time before." "Oh, then you were the hunter we heard shoot," said Todd.

"The deer got away, eh ?" "Yes, I lost track of the deer when I hit the bear," answered the cowboy from the Merwell ranch.

"I'm mighty glad you came up!" he added to Dave.
"It's all right, I am glad I did too," answered the youth.

"I was wishing I'd get a chance at a bear." He saw that Snogger was deeply affected, and was swallowing a lump that came up in his throat.
"And to think it was you, boy!" went on the cowboy, feelingly.