He dropped like a steer when struck with a pole-axe.
If there is a good hiding-place handy it is better to lie in wait at the carcass.

One day on the head-waters of the Madison, I found that a bear was coming to an elk I had shot some days before; and I at once determined to ambush the beast when he came back that evening.

The carcass lay in the middle of a valley a quarter of a mile broad.

The bottom of this valley was covered by an open forest of tall pines; a thick jungle of smaller evergreens marked where the mountains rose on either hand.

There were a number of large rocks scattered here and there, one, of very convenient shape, being only some seventy or eighty yards from the carcass.