Hundreds may thus be killed with comparatively little danger; yet even under these circumstances they will often charge, and sometimes make their charge good.

The spice of danger, especially to a man armed with a good repeating rifle, is only enough to add zest to the chase, and the chief triumph is in outwitting the wary quarry and getting within range.

Ordinarily the only excitement is in the stalk, the bear doing nothing more than keep a keen look-out and manifest the utmost anxiety to get away.

As is but natural, accidents occasionally occur; yet they are usually due more to some failure in man or weapon than to the prowess of the bear.

A good hunter whom I once knew, at a time when he was living in Butte, received fatal injuries from a bear he attacked in open woodland.