But the bombardment only seemed to exasperate the animal, and after each shot they could hear him smashing something.
Then Partridge said maybe a couple of good dogs might whip him; and he borrowed a bulldog and a setter from Scott and pushed them through the front door.

They listened, and for half an hour they could hear a most terrific contest raging; and Scott said he'd bet a million dollars that bull-dog would eat up any two bears in the Rocky Mountains.

Then everything became still, and a few moments later they could hear the bear eating something and cracking bones with his teeth; and Bartholomew said that the Indian out in Colorado told him that the bear was particularly fond of dog-meat, and could relish a dog almost any time.
At last Bartholomew thought he would try strategy.

He procured a huge iron hook with a sharp point to it, tied it to a rope and put three or four pounds of fresh beef on the hook.

Then he went up the ladder, opened the trap-door in the roof and dropped in the bait.