I am not certain whether or not we are permitted to shoot bear at this time of the year.

Do you know what the Kentucky game laws with reference to bear are ?" Hippy said he did not, and did not care.

Having made up his mind to have bear for breakfast, no mere laws should interfere with his appetite he said.

The girls, not wishing to witness the operation, returned to the camp and Hippy shot the bear.
Most of the balance of the night was spent by him in dressing the animal and stringing it up by its hocks to let it cool.

He was not an expert at this sort of thing, but had Tom Gray been there he would have done the job and been back between his blankets in an hour.