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574 bear coming for me on his hind feet. I did not see a tree that I could get behind or climb, so I took out along the trail as fast as I could, the grizzly after me. For the first fifty yards I had to run up grade and then I turned down hill. When I reached the top of the hill I commenced to hallo at the top of my voice, "Lookout Walter, we are coming! " Walter was sitting only a few steps from the trail and the moment I passed him I heard the report of his gun. I jumped to one side and gave the bear a shot. I got

"Look out Walter, we are coming!"

in two shots and Fiske four. After receiving this amount of lead the bear ran but a short distance and dropped