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THE BEAR TAMER;

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 Old Grizzly Adams.‘
THE BEAR TAMERf
03,

 “ The Monarch of the Mountains.”

.mnhg Adventures in the Life of the Famous
“'Wild Hermit of the Rockies,” and “Griz-
zly Bear Tamer," as he was known from
Iontana to Mexico, and whose deeds
r I of daring, as Indian Trailer, Savage

Beast Conqueror_and Mountain
Regulator, would fill volumes.

 

BY DOCTOR FRANK POWELL,
now on m BORDER as “WHITE BEAVER "
“FANCY FRANK,” AND “MEDICINE CHIEF
or m]: wmnsaeous.”

V CHAPTER I.

m AUTHOR mars OLD GRIZZLY.
« “DID you know Old Grizzly Adams, Whin:
Beaver?”

The question was asked me one night as a
party of he sat around a camp fire in the Big
Horn mountains. I

“Know him! Yes, I know him well,” was |
my reply, and I added: 1'

“I owe him my life, a he too owed me his, .l
and from what I know of him, I am safe to ‘
' say that no more daring man and strange 

character ever lived on Borderland.” i

The very question and answers, kind 
reader, suggest that I should tell to you, as I i
did for my comrades at the bivouac, some of ‘
the wild adventures of that strange being }
known as Grizzly Adams, the Monarch of the
\Mouutains.

At the time I first met him I was a. dwoller
in an Indian Tribe, and their Medicine Chief, ;
which gave me almost unlimited power over .
my red associates, although I was a very
young man. ,

I had gone, with a couple of Indian com-
panions, both famous hunters, into the Rocky
Mountains on a hunt [or grimly bears and
other large game.

One night, as we were encamped in a deep
' canyon, hugging the fire close, for a driving
snow storm was prevailing, a huge grizzly
threw. Minimally. upon us, and with one
blow o‘jief massive paw crushed in the skull

 

soul Grizzly Adams, and' what he called his
, do," were um as an at-

Iecured bv Barn
on; but the old‘hunter’s health was falling him
from the numerous wounds he had received..and he
died in’Negoenset, Mass. where he now lies buried,
v f‘ar from scenes of his wild adventures—Tun
mom.

of one of the warriors, while, before the other
could escape his grip, he had him in his deadly
embrace.

I was sleeping but a few feet away, and
barely escaped a blow made at me; but I did
escape it, and succeeded in grasping my rifle
and belt of arms, and I emptied every hhul,
thirteen, rapidly into the body of the savage
brute ere he fell dead. ’ ‘ ‘

But his hug had crushed the bones in the.

second warrior, and I was alone in the moun-
tains. ,

Never before did I pass such a dismal night,
with the dead bodies of my comrades lying
mangled near me, the wind howling through
the canyon, and feeling utterly alone.

But the storm blew over, and with the sun-
rise the clouds were clear, the snow had been
blown OK as it tell, and my game lay at my
feet, and was enough to be proud of, for he
was a perfect monster.

1 cooked my humble breakfast, buried my
red-skin pards, cut the skin off of my grizzly,
and went on my way with the four horses,
for we had brought along an animal to carry
back the skins.

I had not proceeded far before I heard a
shot, followed by a savage growl.

w no was it that could be there in those wild
mountains, I wondered?

The Indians then had few rifles, or firearms
of any description, so it must be a white man.

Dismounting, I hitched my horses and stole
cautiously on, while the growls continued, with
an occasional sound like a human voice.

Fearing that someNone was in danger 1 hur-
ried forward, and there, in a..little valley be-
held a strange sight. ‘ .

A man and a wild beast were engaged in a
deadly encounter.

The former was clad in the skins of wild
beasts, and when not seeing his face, hardly
looked human, and the latter was a grizzly
bear, even larger than the one I had slain the
night before.

The bear had his fore legs around the man,
and yet the latter was not helpless, for he
drove his knife again and again into the huge,
hairy body, and" the ground was covared with
blood. . V .

In vein was it that the grizzly raised his
hind claws to tear the bold hunter, for each
time it was skillfully avoided, as was also the
blows with the massive fore feet.

Yet the hunter suflered from numerous
wounds, and was in a deadly embrace that
must ere long (‘I'Uell him, unless his knife-
thrusts found the seat of life of his brute foe.

Haslin I ran down into the valley,md was
raising my ride to get a shot that would he
were, ’when a deeper and harder stroke with
the knife touched the monster-’3 heart, and the
man and beast fell together.

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There wall a twitching of the muscles, an
angry roar, and the grizzly was dead.

But, across his hairy knife-torn body lay the
man, and, as I then feared also dead.

Springing forward I drew him away and
found that he had become unconscious from
loss of blood.

He was fearfully torn with the sharp claws,
but they had touched no vital point, and his
strength, agility and presence or mind had en-

y

abled him toavoid the glittering teeth of the ,

monster, so that I had hopes of saving his life,
when I gazed upon his iron frame, which I ‘
knew could stand much.

Having been a surgeon in the army, I never
went without my case of instruments and
bandages, even though living as Wild 9. life as
an Indian, and I hastily stopped the bleeding,
sewed up the wounds, and in a Very short
while the hunter opened his eyes.

“Wani, you isn’t a b’ar," were his first
words. ‘ .

“No, your bear lies there,” I answered, i

He glanced indiflerently at the bear and,
said: I
“ Yes, he were a tough customer, an’ he’d ’a’ i
got me ef my knife-blade hadn’t ’a’ been a trifle ,
longer then his claws. &
" But maybe I owes ter you thet I hain’t a }
stifl now i” l
“ No, you killed the bear with your last v
thrust, but you would have bled todeath had i
I not have come along by accident.” ,
“ Pard, it wa’n’t no accidint, but blind ,1
Providince, as sent yer heur, fer it tain‘t writ «,
down yet that Old Grizzly are ter die.” [
“But the old grizzly is dead.”« 3
“I doesn’t mean him but me, fer I are ,
named Old Grizzly Adams.”

“ I started, for the name of the old hunter
all on the border had heard, and I knew I
stood before onewho had won deservedly a
great fame.

“ You, Grizzly Adams?" I asked in surprise. ,

“Yas; don’t I look it?” ,

He certainly did, with his darkly bronzed, i
weather—beaten face, grizzly beard, suit of the 1‘
skins of wild beasts, moccasins, and wolf-hat,
which had the head on top, and the tail hang-
ing down his back, and which had not been
tom 03 in his deadly struggle.

He was stained with blood, his face scarred,
his broad breast torn, his arms out, and legs
with huge gushes in them.

I had bathed his face and wounds, bound ‘

them up, and yet he looked as though he had
been through a thrashing machine.

That he suflered greatly, I well knew, and
yet he had not spoken of his pain, and at thh
seeming ' iodides-once upon the ground, as |
though interested in knowing what I was do— 1
ins there, more than in himself.

 

“ Yes, you do look it, and I am glad to have
served so famous a hunter as Old Grizzly
Adams,” I replied. .'

“ Thankee, pard; now I has interdoooed my-
self ter you, s’pose yer do likewise.”

“ My name is Powell, and I am at present
living among the Indians, and known as their.
Medicine Chief.”

“ Yes. I hes heerd o’ yer; in ther Iettlhminb '
they calls yer Fancy Frank.” ' '

U Yea.”

“ You is a medicine doctor?” '

u Ya.”

“ Waal yer hev done me up prime an’ no
mistake. - .

“ What is yer doin’ hem?”

“ I was hunting for grizzlie'e and other
game." ‘

“ Has you found any?" ’

“ Yes, I killed a bear last night nearly ll
large as that one.”

“ Is yer alone!" .
“ Now I am; but I had two Indian com—

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l panious whom the bear killed." .

“Like as not; Injuns don’t know how tar
tackle grizzlies.

“ Which way is you going?"

_“First to see you to your cabin, for my
horses are near, and you are badly hurt.”

Grizzly Adams attempted to get up, and at
once saw the truth of my assertion, and said:

“Burned of I hain’t nearly did fer, an’ a

leetle more that old b’ar would hev made wolf; '- v- 
l fodder out o’ my carkis. '

“Pei-d, I is obleeged tar yer, on? tho’ I hes
never tuk a man tel‘ my cabing afore, l’m
durned ef I don’t ax yer ter go an’ thar soj’urn
as long as yer wants ten” ‘

I got the horses and aided him to mount my
own animal, and springing‘upon the back of
one of the Indians’ mustangs, I rode along‘
with him, but not, I may as well add, until I
had secured the fine skin of the grizzly he had

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CHAPTER 11.
Oman? mans as non -
Tm: home of Old Grizzly was in the ‘ deepelt
recesses of the mountains, and where even an
Indian would not care to go, unless lured there
by hopes of amlp or big game.

The way was tortuous and dangerous in the > V 

extreme, and though I had been long accus~.
tomed to taking daily risks on life, I shuddered ,

, at the peril presenting itself, for we had to

ride around a cliif, on the mountain aide, upon
a rocky shelf barely wide enough for-the horn,

_ and which forced us to sit ddewayytothat

the animal could press hard against thowall to
keephisequilibriuln. . ' '
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Heavea,l’soid OldGr-inly, who as the my,  
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“Yer see I woundeda grizzly an’ foller'd him
along hear, when I come ter yonder bend, an’
the: I see below me a leetle valley as were jist
prime; V ‘

“ I seen in it running streams, green trees,

‘ grass thet were like ther feather-beds as we
bed in ther ole house at home, an’ says I thet
are ther place for me ter locate.

“ An‘ I seen also that it were a kind 0’ Gar-

' " ding o’ Eding, fer thar were b’ars, wolves,

deers an’ a panther friskin’ about thar, an’ ther
woods were jist lively with birds. '

“It were ther home 0’ tber grizzly I were

_ arter, an’ he were makin’ for it ter git rein-
forcemints, so I quickens my gait, comes up
with him jist what he struck a firmer founda-
tion than this are, an’ jist follow’d himright
‘inter ther Garding of Eding, by a way I’d
’a’ found it hard ter diskiver myself, an’ it are
ther only way out an’ in. onless a teller hes
Vings.

“My comin’ war a surprise party ter ther
yarmints thar, an’ at first I felt I hed made a
mistake, fer ther whole gang seemed comin’
utter me; but I lets in with my rifle an’ pis-
tule, an’ they dervided an’ skipt on out o’ ther
leetle valley, all savin’ severalI hed brought
down. r

“Sln’ then I hes lived thar, built my cabing,
san’ with ole Balsam an’ Calamity I are
happy.” ,

I "‘And who are Balsam and Calamity?” I

“Balsam are my mool; yer see ther Bible

'  o’ Balsam an’ his jackass, an’ as I didn’t

know, ther name 0’ ther animile, I jist called
my meal Balsam.”

“ And Calamity?” _

f‘Oh. he are a onery cuss o’ a dorg.

“ I hes bed many a dorg, an’ I allus calls ’em
all Calamity.”

I . ‘9 And you have no other companions!”

“ Who says so?”
“ No one; I merely asked the question.”
“Yes, I has a quantity 0’ others.”
“I had heard that. you lived all alone."
’ "“ Yer heard a mistake, pard, fer I hes a
’9

Yo ’
“They must find it Very lonesome living in
these wilds," I suggested.
“ They likes it, fer they were. born heur.
“Thar, does yer see my leetle valley?”
. We had rounded a bend of the, cliff as he
spoke, and a quarter of a mile below me in the

' "very depths of the mountains was a little vale,

like an oasisdn the desert, in its beauty,4tor
shelter-slipper: all sides, the foliage of the trees
:hadnot,been killed by the cold blasts of the
‘ . Back against the rock: was; adult .19: cabin,
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the leg but, and birds were visible flitting
about in the trees.

“Hain’t thet ahome piotur’, pardl” asked
Old Grizzly, with a smile of self~satisfaction
upon his broad face. -

I readily acknowledged that it was, and
added: v

“ But I don’t see any of your children.”

“I guess not,” hé said dryly, and then
added: ‘

“Yer shall he interdooced ter ther family,
pard, an’ hev a welcome from all.”

Descending the steep mountain path, after a.
most tortuous trail, we came to a fissure in a
bill, as though the very rocks had been split in
twain. ‘

Through this, not five feet in width, 01d
Grizzly led the way, and [I following with the
led horses, saw suddenly rise before him: a
huge grizzly bear.

Instantly I threw my rifle forward, but the
voice of the old hunter checked me:

“Don’t shoot, pard, fer he are my friend.”

“ Friend?”

“ Yas, pard; don’t yer see he hev got a chain
round his neck, an’ one tied ter ther rock?”

It was true; thaenormous bear, larger than
the one who had so nearly ended the hunter’s

life awhile before, was secured to the rocks by y

a stout chain.

“ I hev had him since be war a cub, an‘
tho’ I kilt his daddy an’ mummy he has no hard
feelin’s ag’in’ me.

“ Down, Sampson, an’ let us go by.”

The grizzly gave a low growl, but at once
obeyed, and dropping upon all fours retreated
to the side of the rock, though with a look that
indicated a desire to go for a meal of! of me.

I went cautiously by, my rifle ready, for the
chain permitted him to go across the mouth of
the ravine; but he made no angry demonstra-
tion.

“ That are Sampon, my gate-keeper, an’ be
are a good one too.

“Now, pard, I feels as of I were not goin’
ter be able ter skip aroun’ fer several days, so
s’posin‘ Nnterdooces yer for my fambly now,
that lhey may know yer, an’ I’ll hev ter git
yer ter feed ’em.

“ I are wuss tuckered out then I hed idee I
were, an’ I hes ter ride up ter my menagerie,
so let ther horses stay thar an‘ git acquainted
with Balsam, while I interdooces yer tor my
fambly.”

He rode on, and I followed on {00% ill-mg

‘ 1’99“ eyed by Calamity. a tremendous, ugly

(108, and we came to a ravine where a great
surprise awaited me, for I was face to face

‘With the “ family” of Old Grizzly Adonis.

And such a family.

Chained along therocks were bears of all de-
scriptibns,fr9m the grizzly to the small black,
and over a score in number.

Old Grizzly Adams, the Bear "l'ainer. ’ 

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Then there were wolves, Wildcats, and a ’9} caved right char, an’ you w’u’dn’t hev dis» ,

panther, or mountain lion.

It was indeed a menagerie, and a savage 1‘

one.

kivered me. ‘
“Now, as it are, I is ter git scrumptious

. 1 ag’in durned soon. '
Walking about were elksh mountain sheep ;

“ You is ther doctor, I is ther sick abed, so

and a few deer, and rabbits, squirrels and make yerself ter home.” ‘

birds were also visible, and all perfectly tame,
though the coming of the hunter, or the sight
of me, caused a general commotion.

“ floor are my fambly, pard, an’ yonder
cabing hes grub fer ’em thet will last weeks, an’
I is happy in huntin’ for game, trainin’ my ani-
miles an’ birds, an’ enjoyin’ life as it are heur
in ther Rookies.

“ I bed a good mother, pard, and she teached
me ther Bible, an’ it hev served me well fer
names fer my critters.

“Thet big grizzly thar are named Goliath,
an’ ther leetle black b’ar are David.

“ Yonder wolf I calls Moses, t‘other one are
Joseph, fer ther gang treated him had one day,
which guv me ther name.

“ Ther pant’er I calls Nob.”

, “ That for Nebraska?” I suggested.

"‘ Nary; it are short fer Nebuchadnezzar,
king 0’ ther Jews, an’ he are ther king 0’ this
lay-out, fer ther grizzlies take a back seat
when he curves his back.

‘v‘ Thet owl thar are Solomon, fer he do look
so durned wise.”

Here I interrupted the old hunter, who was
growing enthusiastic over his pets, when I saw
that he could hardly sit on his horse, and tell-
ing him he must at once take to his bed he re-
luctantly obeyed me, though not until he had
introduced me to his family with:

“ See heur, critters, this are my Medicine
Pard, an’ yer needn’t put on no style afore
him, fer he knows ther character 0’ every
darned one of ye.

“ I hev got a leetle hurted, an’ be are goin’
ter feed yer fer a leetle time, so I warns yer
I’ll have no nonsense, an’ yer all knows me,
fromyou, Goliath, down ter Jepthor’s darter,”
and he pointed to a pretty but dangerous‘look-
ing wild-cat as hearing the last appellation.

Upon trying to dismount at his cabin, Old
Grizzly found he was unable, and I had to
carry him into the house and place him upon
his bed of skins.

I made him as comfortable as possible, and
then re-dressed his wounds, and in doing so saw
that he was seamed with scars from his feet to
his head.

These he had received in his many hand-tee
hand encounters with both wild beasts and
men, and yet his hardy frame had withstood
what would have killed almost any other man.

His wounds received in the last fight he
seemed to think little of, though they were
mniit5paiuful, and several of them dangerous.

But he said in his quiet way:

 

His advice I took, and during the long Weeks
that followed I nursed the hardy and brave
old hunter as though he had been of my own
kindred.

And it was during that time, when for 4’

months a dweller with him in his cabin in the ,
Rocky Mountains, surrounded by his savage ,
pets, that came to know me well, that I heard
from his own lips the stories of his wild and
perilous adventures 1 now relate, and which I
have no reason to doubt, and in fact many at

which are known to be true by many an old" ,_ "

hunter and trapper on the far frontier.

 

CHAPTER 111.
cm onIzer‘s user nos-r.

Tm: strange old Bear Tamer of the Rocky»

Mountains had gone West to carry out an‘idea
he had formed, when a young man, ofvmaking'
a fortune out of a menagerie of wild animals,
trained to perform various tricks, and as docile
to their master as a horse, though savage to
all else who came near them. ' r ‘
He had gone overland with a train bound to

the gold mines of California, bent on throne-i \,

object of his life, and his comrades had been
surprised to see him one day saddle up his

horse, get his two pack animals ready, call Me"- v

dog, and bid them farewell in the very heart
of. the mountains. I

They had urged that he would be killed by *
Indians. I

“ I hes but one time ter die," was his an.
swer. ‘ ~
“You’ll be eaten by wild beasts, Adams,"
said some. “ ,'

“They’ll find me tough eating." he replied; ‘ ‘ ,

And out of camp he went, and there’wero’ ’v
many who believed that'in hunting aroundth'ev
spot where the train had encamped for several"?
days he had “struck it deli," and wished to
keep his gold find a secret to himself. '  '~

The truth was that he had come‘upon an?

Indian chief defending himself against “three”; »

warriors of another tribe, and though wound- 1'
ed, making a noble fight for life. 4' "
One Indian lay dead at Me feet, another‘,‘
mortally wounded, was writhing in agony,~a~~'
few panel; may: but there were three reclaim

“’3’ “d 'Mrh W" boldly facing, tomahawre' ’ 

in use, whileahs stood with hirhnek

ton
rock. ‘ - ‘ "

 not for the merit-~61“ the 7f
ght; he only saw, three against one,,and in r

boundedforward to help the weaker aide. .

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Al. 2"

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' Never  he be M’  ‘  '. 
“ Er it had been sot [or me her die, pard, I’d ‘ a “now being, “gm mod to do it. 11;"me ' ~ "

 

Old Griuly Adams, the Bear Tamer.

 

he had the Yankee love of fair play, and drop-

;-, ping one of the red-skins with his rifle, he shot

. another with his pistol and sprung upon the

9, third, knife in hand.

' ‘ Adams had been a hunter in the forests of the

East from his boyhood,and he had become inured

to hardship, and was a perfect giant in strength,

 so he had no fear of a combat-hand to hand

, with the Indian.

‘-‘- Taken by mrprise, the red‘skin was so non-
plused that the white hunter had him in his
powerful arms before he could resist. and the

2’ . , fight lasted but an instant, and Old Grizzly

, ' arose the victor.

: There crouched the chief he had aided, hav-

 ing (1 to the ground from weakness

as? through loss of blood, and he was gazing upon

,.f the white man with wonder, and yet with a

 - . certain look that showed he expected his turn

', to come next, for he could not believe that a

,; - pale-face had aided him.

‘ His hand still held the tomahawk, yet it

 would have been a light blow that he could

a / _ have struck to defend himself.

x - “ Waal, old Fuss-and-Feathers, I hev helped

r yer out o' a leetle difikilty,” said the hunter,

.‘ 7r: turning to the chief, who understood and spoke

 '. a little English.

" Does the pale-face say he is the friend of

A O-kee-mul-gee?" asked the chief, in a faint tone.

 * «“I allus helps ther under dorg in the: light,

an’ you were that terrier, so I are your friend,

. Injnn par-d," was the answer.

5" The chief tried to extend his hand in thanks,

,/ for, though not fully mastering the words of
the hunter. he saw that he was friendly.

. But he was unable to raise his hand, and,

. seeing it, Old Grizzly, or rather Seneca Adams,*
as he was then called, at once stepped forward

' and began to stancb the blood that was flow-
ing from several wounds the chief had re-
oeived.

.: In broken English the Indian told his pale-

’ ‘ face friend that he was the young chief of a

great tribe, but loved an Indian maiden in an- 1

Q '\ other tribe, and which was hostile to his own;

' people- ,
He had gone to steal her away from her vil-
lage when her lovers had discovered him, and,
following him, had attacked him, and would
m slain him but for his timely arrival and
. aid.
5" “Yer better let wimmins alone, Injun pard,
fer I see they is allus ther same tor git a man
inter trouble.
“ But yer hain’t badly hurt, of it do look so,
an’ l’llsoon flx yer,”ywas Adams’e reply.
A Andhedid “flxhirn,"forhe carried the
_;3 chief to his village, and when he found that
' these mountains aboundedin meofallkindl,

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by:

and having made friends, by his act, of the
largest and most dangerous tribe of Indians in
that part of the country, be determined to re«
main right there and collect his menagerie.

This was, then, the reason for his leaving the
train, and once adrift upon his own resources,
Seneca Adams was not long in securing a safe
camping~place and erecting for himself a stout
and comfortable cabin, with his horses and
dogs his sole companions to share his solitary
home.

 

CHAPTER IV.
CATCHING a TARTAR.

ON! of Old Grizzly’s sporting accomplish-
ments was in throwing a lasso with great skill,
and he never went without his lariat, any
more than he would have gone without his
rifle and belt of arms.

For some weeks he had lived in his cabin
home in the mountains, spending his days in
hunting for game,,and occasionally visited by
the chief whose life he had saved, and who had
fully recovered from his wounds.

He had killed plenty of game, and had cured
the flesh for future use; but he had not yet
captured anything alive with which to start
his menagerie, as he argued, there was no
hurry, and it was best to get fully acquainted
with the country and its animals before he en-
tered upon real work.

At last his stockade pen was finished, in
which he intended to put his captures, and it
was so complete, that as he said:

“It w’u’d hold a Injun, sh’u’d I wish ter
capter one ter take along as a real live cur’os’ty,
an’ like as not I will.”

All being in readiness at head-quarters, the
Wild Beast Hunter sallied out one day for work.
. He was looking for half-grown animals to
begin with, but was unsuccessful in his Search
for that kind, and rather gloomy at his first
day's ill luck was returning home when he
suddenly came upon a large bear seated upon
his hind quarters, and atlentlvely regarding a
deer coming up the bill toward him.

Quick as thought the hunter determined to
surprise that bear, and to do so, he took the
lasso from the hook on his belt, tied one end
of it around a. tree right at his side, and whirl-
ing the coil around his head several times,
threw it.

The hear was surprised, there is no denying
that fact, and with an angry snort bounded
away down the hill. '

But the hunter had already surprised him-
self. for he carried two lessees that day, one
with which to tie his game, and the end he
had fastened around the tree happened to be
the extra one, while that which he had caught
the bear with was securely fastened around his
own body.

Old Grizzly Adams, the Bear Turner. 7

 

Thus, the first bound of the terrified bear] Going out he espied O—kee—mul gee, the

jerked the hunter oil of his feet, and caused
him to yell out:

“Durned ef I hain’t made a mistake to hitch
on ter this critter."

He had indeed, and the jerk he had received
caused him to let fall his rifle, and left him
with his pistols alone to defend himself, as he
had stuck his knife in the tree.

Down the hill went the hear at a terrific
rate, and after him, with great bounds, came
Adams, unable to stop, and unable to free
himself from the lariat without his knife.

Going after the bear as he did caused that
animal greater fright, and it ran the faster, in
its lumbering yet rapid gallop, and urged on
by the curses of the hunter, who swore against
all wild creation, lariats, “an’ b’ars in per-
tickler.”

At last the hunter determined to risk a
shot from his pistols, for he snid to himself,
though aloud:

“ That durned b‘ar hev got steam enough up
ter run a. hundred miles, an’ suthin’ hes got ter
he did right suddint.”

Watching his chance he took aim as well as
he could and fired.

The hear was hit, for he gave an angry
growl and sprung forward the faster.

Again he fired, and this time the bear stum- f
bled, stopped suddenly, and the hunter nearly 1

dashed over him.
But be checked himself in time, and fired
again just as the brute reared upon his hind

legs and started toward him with a furious ‘

1'08 1‘.

Adams, but he did not lose his presence of
mind, and again fired, the shot breaking the
bone of the bear’s right hind leg and bringing
him to the ground.

But instantly, on three feet he again rushed
upon hisenemy, who sprung backward, trip-
ped on a stone and fell.

Still the hunter kept his presence of mind,
and with his pistols in each hand opened
rapidly upon the savage brute, and with such
deadly aim he killed him just as his glittering
jaws were about to seize him in a crushing

ri .
g ‘?Waal, I guesses as how I’ll leave that rope
at home next time, for lassoin’ b’ars hain’t inn-
ny, I'll Iw’ar,” muttered the hunter as he rose

, to his feet and surveyed his game.

 

CHAPTER V.
m ALLY or AK INDIAN.

As Old Grizzly was seated in his cabin one
day, rubbing up his fire-arms, he received
a signal, through a loud and angry roar, from
“ Sampson "the old grizzly bear sentinel, that
some one was approaching.

The table had been suddenly turned upon I

' young chief whom he had so well served, and
‘ at once invited him to the cabin.

“ The chief don’t look jist happy ter-day,”
said the old hunter in an inquiring way.

“ The heart of 0~kee—mul gee is sad; he loves
the Bright Eyes of the Cheyennes, and his
people are at war with her people,” was the
disclansolate reply of the love—sick Indian.

“Yes, it did look as tho’ thar were aleetle'
war atween yer, ther day I seen yer fust; but
what does yer keer a darn fer ther warriors of
yer loves ther gal? -

“Ther’ hain’t no law ag’in’ lovin’ as I has
heerd on, an’ I think yer oughter sail in an’ git
ther gal.”

“That is what 0 kee mohgee’s heart tells
him.”

“Then why in condemnation don’t yer do
it, O—kee?”

“The braves of the Cheyennes seek the scalp
of the Ute chief. ” '

“That are true, an’ you w’u’dn’t tam up
yer nose at ther scalp 0’ a Cheyenne, are my
opinion, au’ has them as I helped yer git hang- -
in’ onto yer belt now. '

“But of I loved a gal l’d git her, providin’
she retarned thet love, ef her pa were a grin-
zly an’ her me. were a pant’er.”

“ The Bright Eyes loves 0 kee-mnhgee as .
the flowers the rain."

“ Then she are dead stuck on yer, Injun, au’
hev it bad: so why in ternal natur' don‘t yer _
git her?”

“ Her village is far from here.”

“Not so darned far but that you kin git
thar in a day an’ night’s ride.” , , ‘

“My people wish me not to have the Bright
Eyes for a squaw.” '

“ ls you selectin’ squaws ter please yer peo-
ple, or yerself?”

“ For O-kee-mul-gee.”

“Then durn ther dif’rence.

, “Ther gal loves yer, you say, an’ you hes
got it bad, I kin see, so you oughter hev her,
an’ I’ll be ther man ter help yer git her.”

The chief held forth his hand to the old' ‘ '

, hunter, and that settled it that the two were
allies in a good cause. _
Old Grizzly at once set to work to prepare
{or his trip, gave his animals all a good'feed, '
called to Calamity to follow him, and mount-
ing his best horse rode out of the valley,»
companied by the Indian. _

The location of the Cheyenne camp the chief
l well knew, and the two arrived in sight of the
§ village fires just after sunset. , " ' ~'
1 It was a bright moonlight night, and on me,
,trail leading to the village the Indian and'
white man lay'in ambush, having canceled
; their horses some distance at.
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enter the village, when they saw a form up.
preaching.

It was soon discovered to be an Indian of iin- :

mouse statue, and with a chief’s head-dress

on.

“It is the Black Cloud of the Cheyennes,”
whispered O-kee-mul-gee.

“Then he are as agreeable tor me as ther
gel, for I has heard hard tales regardin’ thet
red brute ag’ia’ ther whites,” replied Grizzly,
bringing his rifle to a ready.

But the chief laid his grip firmly upon the
rifle, and said:

“ Don’t I the great white hunter be a pep-
poose; the vi ge of his people lies yonder.”

“I hain’t no durned fool, Injun; but I are
goin’ 'ter be ready tor keep that Black Cloud
from ever presidin’over another lodge pow-

' wow, 01 I loses my ha’r an’ yourn too.

“ I’ll be quiet ontil I see of he can’t he tuk
another way.” '

The chief in the mean time had halted near a
small waterfall, which came bounding over a
cliff, and in the moonlight looked like streams

of gold, silver and crimson.

He stood back in the shadow of a tree, as
though waiting for somebody, and like a
statue of bronze he remained.

. Presently another form was visible, coming
toward the waterfall, and the moonlight
showed that it was a woman.

“We is goin’ ter see two lovers make durned
fools o’ themsaives,” muttered Old Grizzly.

“ It is the Bright Eyes,” hoarser said the

, chief.

“Then yer goose are cooked, fer she has
gone back’on on, same as wimmins will)?

“The pale- ace speaks crooked; the Bright
Eyes is true.” ’

“She are crooked, or she'd never cum out

i V heur ter meet that Injun.

“ Let ther gal go, O-kee, an’ we'll fake ther
Black Cloud in out o’ ther wet.” I

The chief made no reply, only pressed his
hand the harder upon the arm of Old Grimly,
to restrain him. '

CHAPTER VI.
, a mom AND A near.
“SAY, Injun, you kin take ther gal an’ I’ll
use ther In an,” again whispered Old Grizzly,
now determ nod to mpture the chief, who was

known to all the settlers, miners and forts, as a

reddianded murderer of the worst kind, and so

wary that he eluded all efforts to capture or i

kill him.

 

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In the mean time Bright Eyes, as O-kee-mul- 1

gee said the maiden was, came to the fall and

I glanced at the waters for ‘an instant in silence.

Then she stepped forward and bending her
head let the spray fall upon her long dark

hair-
'“Ia'there fire in the brain of‘the Bright

I

Eyes,_that she lets the falling waters were
it?”

The maiden started at the voice of Black
Cloud, whose presence she had not suspected;
but turning quickly toward him, answered:

“Yes, and in the heart of the Bright Eyes
too, there is fire, and sorrow, and the Medicine
Chief told her to come to the falling waters,
and joy would again fall upon her.

“She has obeyed the great Medicine Chief
and has come, to find here the Black Cloud,
whose love has frozen her heart.”

“ Ther gal ar’ squar’, Pard O-kee, so you are
prime as ther top dog in ther fight.

“ New fer biz, as I looks arter ther King Bee,
an’ you take ther gal.”

As he spoke, and quick as movement could
be made, Old Grizzly threw his lariat.

Over the head of the Black Cloud it fell, and
the huge Indian was jerked to the ground with
a force that was almost stunning.

Ere he could resist the hunter was upon him
his hands tightening the coil upon his throat,
until resistance was wholly useless.

In the mean time the Ute chief had sprung
to the /aid of the hunter, until he saw how
readily be managed the Cheyenne, and then he
darted after Bright Eyes who had bounded
away like a deer.

Calling her by name she had halted, and
after a few earnest words, the two came back
together. just as Old Grizzly had securely
bound the Cheyenne, and was trying to force
a gag into his mouth.

But, with the pressure upon his throat re-
lieved, Black Cloud burst forth in one long,
loud, ringing war-whoop, that was heard in
every part of the village.

Several times the'sledge—hammer-like fist of
the hunter fell upon the face and head of the
Indian, throwing him, and then raising him in
his arms, as though he had been a child, Old
Grizzly bounded away, crying:

“Come, O-kee, you an’ thes gal, ef she in:

tends ter slope with yer."

They needed no second invitation, for an-
swering war-cries came from the village, and
at great speed they fled through the forest, to
the spot where the Indian and hunter had left
1Emir horses, one having been brought for Bright

yes.

“Here, Injuns. we’ll strap ther Cheyenne
onto my animile."

“ And the pale-face hunter?" generously
asked the Indian.

“Don’t yer mind me, fer I were born able
ter take car’ 0’ myself; you take ther gal an’
ther Cheyenne an’ light out, an’ don’t lose no

time, an' I will come on foot."

“Orkee-mulgee is no snake-heart, to leave
his white brother." /

“ Injun, ef yer den’t sto‘p chinnin’, I’m
durned at I don’t knock yer in ther head, strap

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Old Grizzly Adams, the Bear TM. 0
yer on that animile, en‘ send ther gal 03 ter ! mul-gee the Cheyenne not far ahead of him,
take keer 0’ yer. they having had to make a detour of a moun-

“Git, fer them condemned Injuns is raisin’ tain which the horses could not cross.
chained lightnin’ yonder, au’ you bed better Old Grizzly hailed them with delight and
travel fast, or they might be fingerin’ yer they continued their flight toward the Chey-

 

scal afore mornin'. enne village, O-kee-mul—gee making the hunter
“ ow here is my animile ready with his ride his horse.

load, so git.” » .
Ashe spoke the hunter handed the rein to

the chief, and Bright Eyes having already , CHAPTER VII.

sprung upon her horse, the two set of, leading OLD GRIZZLY’S INJUN Tsar.

Old Grimly’s horse, with the captive securely Wrra the dawn of day the Cheyennes had

bound upon his back. assembled ready for red work, for they had

“ Go straight fer yer village, au’ I’ll he been fearful of moving by night, not knowing
along afore Christmas,” shouted the hunter, but that a lurking fee was ready to throw
and he looked at his arms, shook himself to- themselves upon their village, as soon as its
gather, and turned to run for the nearest warriors had gone.
shelter in the hills, when he came full up Discovering the trails left by the treadmill;
against an Indian warrior, whorwas creeping men, who had kidnapped, though with her
upon him. consent, the Bright Eyes, they at once knew,

Though taken by surprise, Old Grizzly did when the maiden’s tracks were seen at the
not lose his presence of mind. in the slightest water-fall, and her absence made known, that
degree, but caught the uplifted band that held they had to look for her in the village of the
the knife, and clinching with the red-skin, a Utes.
savage fight at once began. As the wits of the Ute chief, O-kee-mnl-gee,

Grizzly Adams well knew that he had no or Death-onthetrail, as was his Indian name
time to lose in a hand-to-hand fight, for the interpreted, the young Cheyenne braves no,
Indians could now be heard at the water-fall, longer cared for the lovely Bright Eyes they ‘
and their voices told that there were many of had tried so hard to win; but they longed to
them. visit upon her and their hated fee a fearful

His adversary was a strong young Indian, vengeance. __
but no match for the hunter, and within half They had believed that he had, singlehanded, , '_ 
a minute the fight ended, by a knife being killed the warriors that had pursued him on his .
buried in the heart of the red-skin. former attempt to steal the Bright Eyes, and

“ I’ll horror yer skulp, Injun, ef yer 081156 they were most anxious to capture so great 1
me ter lose mine,” said Old Grily, and he chief.
tore the scalp-lock tram the Warrior’s head, When the trails told the facts or the ease, for
seized his rifle, and again started to leave. the Indians read them as we would an open

But just then three red-skins bounded over book, they were enraged with themselves to
the ridge, not a hundred feet away, and stood think that two warriors, as they believed the
in the full light of the moon. Ute and Old Grizst to be, had come to their

“ Guess I’ll l’arn ’em a Sunday schule lesson very village and captured their chief and the
tonic ter my Injun neighbors as they w’u’d do beauty of their tribe. , ‘ _
bar we.” muttered 01d Grizzly, and throwing The trails also showed them that the three
his rifle forward he fired: just as it reached a horses had gone one way, and a m I
level. ' foot another, and both of them were'followed.

With a ringing death-cry the center warrior Under the next ranking chief after Black ,
sunk in his tracks, while the other two quickly cloud the Cheyenne; hotly pursued the trails,
boundedtocover beyond the ridge. which neither the Ute 01' Old Grisly had

As Old Grizzly had _ca1culated, this taught attempted to conceal, and arriving at the mist ‘
them caution, and gave him a chance to de- where the hunter joined the chief, with Bright
camp, which he did with the speed oi a deer. Eyes and his captive, the two bands met, and

“ They’ll think it are a whole tribe, an’ not pressed on toward the Ute village.
one man, an’ they’ll go durned slow ontil day- Whether it was his bringing in Black Cloud
break, an’ of my leg-tackle holds out, I'll be a as a prisoner, or the story he told of the Bright

long my ofl then- Eyes having saved his life a year before when
“Jerushal but Iare gittin’ ter be a prime he was a captive to the Cheyennes, or the

Injunfighter.” . l'eauty of the Indian girl, I do not know; but
So saying Old Grizzly stopped for a short certain it is that O-keemul-geeeanied the day,

rest, having run a long distance. was greeted with pleasure, and the maid._

But he soon resumed his flight again, received a warm welcome into the Ute
keeping up a rapid and steady walk until . Then the warriors assembled to most
dawn, when tohis delight he deseried 0~kee- Gheyenues. and under the advice (I

 

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10 Old Grizzly A:'. no. the Bear- Tamer.

 

Grizzly, instead of waiting to be attacked,
sallied forth to meet the foe.

Selecting a canyon five miles from the Ute
village, Old Grizzly said that there was the
place to amhnsh‘ the Cheyennes, and in less
time than a military company could have gone
through the mnan of arms, four hundred Ute
warriors were lying in wait for their enemies.

It was just sunset of the second day after
the flight that the Cheyennes walked into the
trap set for them, and then commenced a. most
sangulnary battle, which ended in the hasty
flight of the Cheyennes and the securing of
many scalps by the Utes.

All through the fight Old Grizzly had done
splendid work for his red allies, and gained for
himself the Indian name White Death, for at
every flash of his rifle and pistols a Cheyenne
had bitten the dust.

“ That are my first great battle, Injun pards,
an’ it are suthin’ ter remember up ter Jedge-
mint, of I are livin’ then, an’ I s’pose flghtin’
are correct, fer ther’s fightin’ in Ther Book
clean through from Genesis to Deuteronomy,
of my pious 'larnin’ are good.

“ But yer kin gather in ther skulps, an’ I’ll
skip back ter my den an’ feed that b’ars an’
other animiles ’fore thar is ther devil ter pay
thar.

“ O-kee, I may drop in at yer weddin‘ in a
day or two, fer I s’pose yer’ll hev one,” and
with a wave of his hand Old Grizzly shouldered
his rifle and started for his own ranch, leaving
the Utes rejoicing in the canyon, where he
had laid so successful an ambuscade, and which
' to this day is known as Old Grizzly’s Injun
‘ Trap Canyon.

 

CHAPTER VIII.
nmmnnmo A non.

Rama to his ranch Old Grizzly found
his managerie all right, though very hungry,
and in fact so exceedingly ravenous that they
looked at him with longing eye, as though
anxious to test the quality of his flesh.

The hunter recognized this in their actions:

“and looks, and growled forth:

“Yer needn’t sot eyes on me, critters, fer
yer’d find me tough ‘chawin’; keep still an’ I’ll
give yer suthin’ tar soothe yer troubled souls;
of yer don’t keep still, I’ll give yer a lickin’
that wiil stretch yer hides an’ make yer grow.”

One by one the hunter then fed his savage ‘ 7

pets, from his meat store-room, which he
always kept well filled, and then sought the
rest he so much needed. ,
The next day he started on a visit to the
Ute, village. V
“Tor be boss mourner at that weddin’, for
their darned Injuns can‘t git along ’ithont me
‘ nohow,” as he expressedlit.
f {Arriving in sight of the village he did not

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take long to discover that something of an un—
usual nature was progressing. ‘
Drawing nearer to the lines of tepees, that

i composed the Indian town, he saw the entire

population gathered upon the open meadow,
and engaged in some performance that certain-
ly had great attractions for the Utes, what-
ever it might have for the other participants.

“ Them darned lnjuns is makin’ it lively fer
ther captives,” muttered Old Grizzly, as he
walked forward and joined the head chief, re-
turning the grunts of welcome he received
from all, by a constant nodding of his head.

O-kee-mul-gee greeted him in a most friendly
way, and at a glance Old Grizzly saw the
cause of the commotion. ‘

Tied to a tree were two forms, and around
their feet, as high up as their knees, were
piled fagots all ready to set on fire. ,

One was the Cheyenne chief, Black Cloud,
calm, defiant, and bleeding from several
wounds he had received.

The other was an Indian youth of sixteen,
with a. fearless, hmdsome face, and whose ap-
pearance indicated that he was neither Chey-
enne or Ute.

He was not wounded, yet it was evident
that he was to sufler the fearful fate of being
burnt to death at the stake. ,

In a few words Old Grizzly, was told that
Black Cloud had proven himself a great chief,
for he had not only, in the trials of courage
and strength, defeated the three Ute warriors
pitted against him, but had successfully run the
gantlet of fire against fearful odds, thereby
winning his freedom by Indian law.

But so great was the hatred of the Utes for
Black Cloud, and their fear of him, they had
determined not to let him go free, but to burn
him at the stake, and thus end their enemy
forever.

“ Yer say he hev bed a tussle with ther
warrio-sl” asked the hunter seriously. . .

“ Yes,” was the reply of the chief.

“ How many!”

‘ “ Three.”

“ An‘ licked ’eml”

The chief nodded. '

“ Then he run the death gantletl”

Again a nod.

“ Yer promise Injuns the’r lives of they
makes that dangersome trip don’t yer?"

“ The hunter speaks straight.”

“I knows that, but you is actin’ dog-gonad
crooked."

“Howl” uttered more as an ejaculatiOn than
asa question.

“ I sees ther Cheyenne lied to ther tree ter
burn, an’ yet has broke yer word tor him."

“ The Doath-on-the trail would spare him;
but my young warriors will not listen,” said
the Ute chief,

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01d Grizzly Adams. the Bears- Tamera . V 11

 

“ No use 0’ bein’ a chief onless yer is a. whole ‘
chief clean through, says I." l

“ The young braves’ voices are loud.”

“ Yas, too durned loud; but barkin’ dorgs
don’ bite, I hes heerd, an’ I’ll jist give ’em a
chance to tackle me.”

“What would my pale-face brother do?”
asked the Ute chief in alarm.

“I has a. way 0’ actin’ better than I talks,
nn’ I’ll show yer.”

So saying Old Grizzly stepped up to the tree
and fearlessly- severed the bonds of Black
Cloud.  ~

The Cheyenne gazed with amazement upon
him, and the Ute warriors uttered a howl of
commingled surprise and rage.

But, nothing duunted, Old Grizzly faced
them, and speaking to an Indian who spoke
English well, said in his quaint way:

“ J ist interpret ter them red-skin braves that
that thar priz’ner are my meat.

“ I tuk him in out o’ ther wet, an’ guv him
to ther chief; but I hes l’arnt how ter be a 1n-
jun-giver, an’ as them dog-gonad warriors hes

broke faith with him, arter he hes proved him~ ‘

self ther boss 0’ ’em all, I say they hain’t'
a-goin’ ter harm him. ”

The words of the daring white warrior were :
received with anger and excitement, which
was but slightly alloyed when the chief sided ;
with him. [

They were determined to wring from thel
great Cheyenne chief a cry of pain, or fright, i
and would not readily give up the, to them, \
delightful spectacle of the brave, but cruel ‘
Black Cloud being burned at the stake.

“l hes spoke, an ef I lose my ba’r I’ll be
heur ter back up my words, for yer hain’t no
braves, ef yer goes back on yer words like
thet.

“Thei- Cheyenne are mine, an’ of I hadn’t
showed yer u. leetle trick in ther canyon, yer'd
be a-humpin' it over ther mount’ins now, with
some 0’ ye left ahind, an’ yer village in ther
hnn's o’ ther Cheyennes.

“So I says ther Black Cloud shall hev a
show."

The Cheyenne chief spoke the Ute tongue,
having learned it when for a long time a cap
tive among them when a boy, and he under-
stood well all that was said by the interpreter,
and gazed upon Old Grinly with admiration
and thankfulness.

The Utes, however, still shook their heads,
and Old Grizzly went on: >

“I’ll tell yer what:ter do, fer ther are honn’
ter be a compromise heur. '

. “,Jist give thet chief his weepins, let‘hiln
leave ther village, sn’ when ther sun makes

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ther had ow 0’ this tree tech yonder rock, every '

darned one o’ yer young warriors as wants ter
win a great name jist go in pursuit.
“ What does yer say, Injunsll’

Some, the greater number indeed, favored
the old hunter, on whose side they knew their
chief to be; but there was one ugly chief that
refused, and said Black Cloud must burn at the
stake.

“Look hour, yer ugly old varmint, as yer
wants a circus so much, dumed of I don’t give
yer one. - v ~

“They calls you a terres- in this hour vil-
lage, an‘ durned of I don’t believe you is, for
yer looks it, an’ wuss, too. ,

“ But I’ll fight yer fer yer opinion right
heur.”

Blue Snake, the warrior so suddenly chin-"I
longed, soowled savagely at Old Grizzly and
replied that he would fight the Cheyenne, er
the white hunter. either.

“ No, ther Cheyenne hain’t happy arter'ther
fun he hev hed alrefiiily, en’ he hain’t ska! her
you jist now; but tackle yer, jist tor give
(that red sports hour a circus, so sail in, an' on
brings yer ter grass yer hev ter shut up.” '

Blue Snake seemed to wish to fight with
tomahawks or knives, but Old Grizzly said: a

“No, this hev got ter be a rustle, 01‘ km
down, fer of we uses weepins I’ll kill yer, an'
that w’u’d bring had blood atween your fainth
an’ mine. - a

“No, fight me squar’ stan’-up,-an’ then shot V .V ‘
up, of yer is licked, an’ it are my opinion yer
will be.”

This novel challenge seemed to change the
current of thought, and all wanted to see the
fight, and as Blue Snake was generally hated,
hoped he would get whipped, while, if it must

, end by the escape of the Cheyenne, if OldGris- . _

zly was defeated, they hoped the latter would
get the worst of it. ‘

Thus they balanced between two opinions.»

“ If the Blue Snake conquers the White
Death the Cheyenne must die?” that wily chief
asked through the interpreter.

“ Yes, I are agreed,” was the lndiflel‘ent re- -
ply of Old Grizzly, and be stripped for .ihe
, counter, placing his arms in the care of ,
on-the-trail, while he muttered: , l ,

“All Injuns is honest, hut then they is so
darned much alike as two peas, that itare hard
to: pick out ther thief, of any Iii-tickle are
missin’, an’ my weepins hain’t ter he took at, ‘
pard lnjun, or that will be a yarthqufll“ in

this heur camp-meetln’ o’ red-skins?

,‘ CHAPTER DE.- ‘

_ run near. ' ,
“113nm is redakim, so pay yer money
an’ take yer ch’loe. ; -_

“This are my clrkiss,an’ I earned: , ‘

‘ tackle ther Blue Snake fer theredmon o' a g
l yendlrhig an' leetle, ole an' young, squawan’, ,

pappoo-e. he. shaver new tbs-Wt 

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Such was Old Grizzly's announcement of his
readiness for the fray with the Blue Snake, as
that cunning warrior came from his tepee
stripped to his leggina, and with his body
greased for the fight.

He certainly was a most muscular specimen
of humanity, as he stood waiting for the fight,
and those who knew his great strength and
agility already settled the affair in his favor.

But there were two present who had some
doubts of Blue Snake’s ability to conquer Old
Grizzly, and these men were the Ute chief and
the Cheyenne, Black Cloud.

The former had seen him handle the power-
ful Cheyenne, and the latter had felt how
easily hehad been handled by the white hunter.

Grizzly Adams was not a. man of gigantic,
stature, yet his bones were like iron and his
muscles were as hard as leather, while ',
his movements were as quick as a flash, v
and his hand had the untiring grip of a bull-
dog. '

He was in moccasins, leggins and hunting
shirt, and had wisely thrown aside his wolf
hat and coat, which, in imitation of Joseph’s
coat of many‘colors, he had made of many
skins, for it included a part of the hide of
every animal with furthat he had killed.

“I am ready, Blue Snake, an’ e! I don’t
worry yer, I hev mistook my man.

“ Come on, yer snaky varmintl” cried Old
Grizzly. '

Although Blue Snake did not understand the

words of the white man, he knew that he was
ready for the fight, and with the bound of a
' panther sprung toward him.
Instead of meeting the Indian with a blow,
. as all expected him to do, Old Grizzly simply
squatted quickly upon the ground, and the im-
petus of Blue Snake carried him over him, and
tripped by his adversary, he fell heavily to the
earth.

Instantly Grizzly Adams arose to a standing

positibn, while the Indian scrambled to his feet
furious at his fall, and once more rushed upon
him, but not with a bound as before.
’ Again the white man proved himself a for-
midable champion to attack, for when Blue
Snake's hands were almost upon his throat, he
stepped quickly one side, and at the same time
delivered a stunning blow upon the red-skin’s
head that knocked him down.

It was evident that Blue Snake was sure
prised, u were also his comrades; but he again
arose and attacked the white man, this time

 

walking cautiously up toward him.

A few rapid blows passed between them,
Old Grizzly warding on those of the Indian, .
and each time planting his own fist in the
face of his adversary with telling eflect. ‘

Finding that he could not stand up under'
that iron fist, Blue Snake sprung upon the
hunter and clinched withhim- '

In this style of fighting he had always
proven a victor, and he expected to redeem
himself in the eyes of his people by quickly
bringing the hunter to grass.

But his chagrin was hitter indeed, and the
excitement of the lockers-on great, when Griz-
zly Adams seized the Indian in his powerful
arms, pressed him against him with such
power that his right arm was useless, and
rained blows upon his face, fore-arm and body
with such telling effect that when he released
him, Blue Snake dropped to thecground a badly
used-up man.

“ I guess I hev won that leetle game, Pard
O-kee," quietly said Old Grizzly, paying no
attention to the angry giances the Blue Snake’s
friends cast upon him.

“The pale-face is a great chief, and the
Black Cloud is his captive,” was O-kee-mul-
gee’s calm reply, and he glanced somewhat
anxiously toward the prostrate Blue Snake, as
though he feared Grizzly Adams had killed
him. ’

The hunter understood the look, and said:

“Oh, he hain’t hurt, only a leetle jammed
about the face, an’ it may make him more
han’somer, for it can’t sp’ile his looks any.

“ I’ll fetch him round.”

Taking up his coat and arms, for he did not
wish to be longer without them, he took a flask
from his pocket, and walking over to where
the Indian lay, poured a swallow of liquor
down his throat, at the same time throwing a
gourd of water, which Bright Eyes had
brought, into his face.

The efiect of the liquor or water, or both,
was magical, for Blue Snake rallied at once,
and rising to his feet went limping away to
his tepee, the expression on his face proving
that he was forever the bitter fee of Old Grizzly
Adams, who saw it, and,'with a light laugh
said: I

“ That old red' nigger hain’t got a fergivin’
natur’, hev he, O-kee‘i”

CHAPTER ,x.
THE PAWNEE BOY.

“Now, Pard Injun, I s’pose ther Cheyenne
kin git?” and Grizzly Adams turned to Okee-
mul-gee who answered:

“ The Ute chief’s tongue is not crooked.”

“I are delighted ter know it, for thar be so
many crooked tongues, it are a relish tar find
one that hain’t.

“Come, Black Cloud, an’ git ready for a
rapid travel, at yer don’t want yer ha’r
raised,” and Old Grizzly turned to the Chey-
enne, who said in tolerable English:

“ The pale-face hunter is a mighty chief; he
has saved the life of the Black Cloud, and
tepees of my people shall be his home.”

“I has a homo, thank yet, an’ I don’t invite

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yer thar, seein’ as I expects yer’ll come any
time you think yer‘d like a lock 0‘ my ha’r
ter derwide round yer willage.

“Ef I did right, I s’pose I uughter shoot
yer; but I are a man ter take ther weaker
side, au’I tharfore tells yer ter git, an' yer
knows; whether it are best ter git lively or
not.

“ Thar be ther weepins I tuk from yer, an’
I guesses yer knows ther trail home.

“Yer hes done aheap o’ harm ter white
folks, I’ll sw’ar, but I are a i‘a’r play gerloot,
an’ as yer were in a leetle dimkilty I helped
yer out. ‘

“ Now travel.” _

The Indian did not master all that was said
to him, but he felt kindly toward the hunter
and looked it.

Taking his arms, he turned toward O<kee-
mul-gee and his warriors, looked them defiantly
in the eyes, drew from his pouch some black
paint and smeared it over his face, in token
that it was war to the end between his tribe
and the Utes, and strode boldly from the village.

There were scores of young warriors who
wanted to follow him knowing that he was
wounded and weak, and try conclusions with
him, once he was free of the village; but they
caught the eyes of fearless Old Grizzly Adams
fixed warnineg upon them, and in terror of
his terrible rifle, remained where they were,
watching the bold chief until he disappeared in
the distant forest. I

It was evident that Old Grizzly expected
trouble, from the manner in which he kept
his weapons ready for use; but when the
Cheyenne had gone from sight, and no one had
started on his trail that he could see, the hun~
ter turned to the boy, who was still tied to the
tree, and asked quietly:

“ Who are he, O-keel”

“A Pawnee hey, we caught fighting with
the Cbeyennes,” was the answer. '

“ Hain’t afraid of him, be yer'l”

“The Death-onlthe-trail knows no fear,"
was the haughty response.

“You’ve got grit, I knew; but yer don’t
show it, ter keep thet boy tied, sn’ burn him,
as yer intended.”

“ He was a young brave, an’ took the scalps
of two of my warriors.”

“ Like as not. for he looks as tho’ he loved
sculps; but yer hain’t argoin’ ter set him on fire
for it.” '

“ My young men must see their foe die.”

“ Not at Old Grizzly Adams kin savs him.

“I are a reg’lsr made Injun 0’ this hour
tribe, sin’ ther day I helped vou out o’ a fix,
an’I knows thet a chief an claim a young
captive as a son, an’ thet are what I does now.

-‘ I lays my flipper on this hour boy as my
son, an’ the:- red nigger in this hour camp as
says no, then he’d better reckon npwhst he

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hev got fer leave his fambly an’ call in ther
lawyer ter make his will, an‘ ther person 0'
ther tribe ter start him straight, fer he goes
lickity—split ter ther Happy iiuntin’ Grounds
0' good In jnns.”

As Old Grizzly spoke he once more boldly
defied the red-skins in their own village, by.
severing the bonds of a captive. _

“Young ’un, you is my boy, so come along,"
said the old hunter, and the youth clung close
to him, fearless, yet with evident belief that
his toes would throw themselves upon him.

But the warriors had too much awe of Old
Grizzly to make any such an attempt, and
looked upon him as a special pet 'of the Great
Spirit, some of them believing that he was an
evil spirit even, for they knew of his having"
made captives some of the most savage beasts
of the mountains,.and almost daily was adding
to his collection. - -

Silently the Pawnee boy followed him, and
leaving the village of O-kee-mul-gee, Old
Grizzly went straight to his secret retreat.

The'lndian boy seemed more terrified at the ‘
wild animals which the old hunter had for
pets, than he had been in the presence of his
human foes, and seeing it, Old Grizzly said,
though he well knew that the youth could
understand but little what he was talking about: ‘

“Young Injun, this are my house, an'heur'
are my fambly, sich as it are. ,

“They is young cubs, most of ’em, but they .
are bein’ riz up ter full growth, an’ Iare
trainin’ ’em for a purpose which Injuns knous
nothin’ about, seein’ as how thar is no cirkiss
ever comes inter these henr parts, an’ it are
lucky fer it thet it don‘t.

“I needs jist such a likely chap as you  ‘

ter hang roun’ an’ keep ther animiles stirred up .
when I are absint on a hunt, an’ I’m thinkin’ ,
yer will serve me well, an’ yer oughter, fer ‘I’
saved yer gittin’ scorched. _ _

“ Ef yer plays a card ag’in’ me, I’ll chop yer
up fer mince-meat fer ther b’ars;_ but at yer 1
serves me well, I’ll make a man 0’ yer.”

“ Wild Welt love hunter,” said the boy,
putting together what few words he knew in
English.

“ I believe yer is a youfig liar, but I‘ll trust,
yer, an‘ yer’ll be Tame Wolf store long.

“ Thar are yer sleepin’ roost, an’ thar are no -
need 0’ tellin’ yer whar ther grub be, fer yer
hev a fine nose for wittals, or I miscalkilates.”

Whether the young Indian, Wild Wolf, was

true or treacherous to the man who had saved‘ ‘ ‘ l '

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CHAPTER XI.
a ansan ASBASSIN.

‘ {lathe time that Old Grizzly Adams had

 a' sojourner in the Rocky Mountains, he
had accomplished wonders, for, when fortune
favored him in aiding the Ute chief in his bat-
tle with the Cheyennes, it afterward clung to
him in his hunts, and it was not long before he
had secured a good start toward his menagerie,
having caught in traps, and starved to submis-
sion several large bears and wolves, and cap-
tured a 'nnmber of the young of nearly all
kinds of wild beasts that dwelt in the vast wil-
derness where he made his home.

His aiding O-kee-mul-gee again, in kidnap-
ping Bright Eyes, and bold release of Black

' Cloud endeared the Utes more to him, while

the Cheyfiohief, who safely reached his
people of "his being set free, commanded
that the lone white man of the mountains
should never bewrnolested by any of his war-
riors. I

’ The old hunter was therefore in clover, so to
speak, as fax-Hg being molested by any of the
Indians waag—Lmhcemed, and could pursue his
dangerous compation in peace, where human
kind were concerned.

But though he was surrounded by animals he
had tamed in a great degree, his desire to add
to his menagerie led him daily into most‘des-
perate dangers, and caused him to receive
many an ugly wound, that would have been
the death of most men.

One day, some months after his bringing

, Wild Wolf to his den, Old Grizzly started on

the trail of a huge grizzly, he had been most

anxious to catch or kill.

He, left the Indian boy alone in the cabin,

. for he had come to trust him, having learned

that he had been captured when very young by
the Cheyennes, and adopted into their tribe,
though never with his own consent, for he did
not love the natural foes of his own race.

The lndian boy had turned out a willing ser-
vant, and was a great aid to the old hunter, to
whom he seemed mest devoted.

He had learned English tolerany well, or .
luchEnglish as Old Grizzly could teach him,
for the hunter had almost wholly dropped into
the border dialect, and it was growing more
and more upon him. ‘

‘ Then, too, Wild Wolf had learned to shoot a
rifle and pistol, and become adead shot with
unlined Old Grizzly was very proud of his

up /
p} When dark came and the hunter had not re-
turned, the Indian boy threw the allowance of
food to the animals, ate his humble supper, and
was about to turn in for the night, when he

suddenly descried the moon peering up over

the cliff.
He stopped to glance at it‘an instant, as per-

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haps it recalled thoughts of his far away
people, from whom he had been so long separ-
ated, when suddenly he saw a form cross its
disk.

It was the form of an Indian warrior, and he
stood out in bold relief, against the bright face
of the mean.

Who could he be? r

What was he doing there?

The latter question that flashed through the
mind of the Pawnee boy, was answered by
seeing the Indian reach up and tie a rope to
the branches of a tree that grew back afew
feet front the edge of the clifl.

Then he took the coil and lowered it down
into the valley.

The next instant he swung himself over the
edge and disappeared from the sight of the
Pawnee, for he was in the shadow of the cliff,
but Wild Wolf knew that he was descending
into the canyon by means of the rope.

Quietly he slipped into the cabin and buckled
on the the extraibelt 0.! arms Old Grizzly had
brought with him, and which he allowed the
youth to use. ,

Then he glided out of the cabin and brought
with him a roll of skins.

These he quickly laid upon a large buffalo-
robe, and, with the aid of the Old Grizzly’s
hatsand a pair of boots, made a dummy that
certainly looked like the hunter asleep.

.Back in the shadowof the rock the boy then
crept and waited.

Ere long he saw a dark form approaching
from the direction of the canyon. ‘

Calamity, the hunter’s dog, had accompanied
his master that day, and as the intruder came
not by the entrance to the valley, he would
not be seen by the grizzly bear on post, and
which Old Grizzly had trained as a sentinel.

Nearer and nearer the form came toward
the cabin, until be halted in the shadow of a
rock not far away.

But Wild Wolf was as patient as a cat
watching a mouse, and waited without the tre-
mor of a muscle.

It was evident the Indian saw the pretended
form lying on the buflalo-robe, though it was
half in shadow irom the cabin; but be deter-
mined to wait until he was assured the hunter
slept.

At last, as though seemed of that fact he
crept nearer, and the Pawnee boy saw that he
had his bow in his hand, an arrow set, and the
string drawn back.

Nearer and nearer, until taking deadly aim
at. the supposed body of. the hunter, the old
amnesia let the arrow fly upon its mission.

There was a dull thud andslight movement,
asthesrrow struck, and with a war.cry the
Indian sprung forward, swiping-knife in hand.

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pad in his tracks, a half stifled cry upon hisI
lips, while, bounding from his concealment
Wild Wolf seized the dying red-skin in his
arms and the next. moment tore the scalp from
his head. ‘

Just at that moment hurrying feet and ai
yelp were heard, and up dashed Old Grizzly, ‘
crying:

“What are it boy?”

Silently and proudly the young Indian .
pointed to his dead toe.

Bending over the dead form the hunter
cried:

“It are Blue Snake, boy, sure as thunder.
an’ you hey did the job. .

“He crawlt in heur an’ you jist returns
ther leetle service I did yer.

“ Give me yer red paw, leetle pard, an’ then
we'll give ther Snake to ther animiles fer
wittals, fer ’twon’t deter hev ther Utes know
how he come ter be sent fer.

“Thar animiles will pick his bones, an’ he

won’t car' of they does, an’ darned at I hain’t ‘ lord. '. « -,
" Dangersomel I guesses not, for he would-e

satisfied at he be.”

CHAPTER XII.
a ammo—cm mun.

Tim denizens of a mining~camp in the
mountains, which by courtesy was called
Miner's City, were one day greatly astounded
at discovering a strange rider and a stranger
steed coming into their main street.

The surprise turned to terror in many cases,
and the timid went in and elated their doors,
while the brave at once armed themselves to
the teeth and stood ready for action. -

The cause of this unwonted commotion
among a people that were seemingly never sus-
prised at anything, was at discovering an im-
mense grizzly bear coming down the mountain .
road, and heading for the center of the camp. I

There would have been a bear-hunt at once I
had it not been for the tact that the grizzly l
was saddled and bridled, and more—carried
upon his back a rider.

That rider was Old Grizzly Adams.

The bear was his king ot grirzlies, Sampson,
which he had as well trained as a horse. . ,
,Wholly regardless, apparently, of his load,
Sampson walked up the street at a swinging
pacefstraigbt toward the hotel, while his rider
had more queries put to him than he could have
answered in a year’s time. . 1
The style of those questions was not calcu-
lated to put Old Grizzly Adams in a good hu-

mor, as one would ask:

“Which are ther man an’ which are ther
blur!” , ‘\

“Pas-d, what does yer ax ier yer mulei”

“Gitdown, oldman, an’lettherb’arridea

Who” '1 “I’ll ‘stan’ treat- tar ther swine, nerds; but -

‘ Grisly Adonis-adorn replies to mm.

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chi-m, but held steadily on his way and halted
before the door of the pine-board shanty that
did service under the high-sounding title of the
Valley View Hotel. r
There was the legend beneath the name of
“ ENTERTAINMENT FOB MAN m BEAST."
But the host did not come out to welcome
either the man or the beast, and seemed un-
happy that they had come. ,
Dismountlng from his griuly, Adams fas-
tened his chain bridle to the hitchiug- more
as a matter of term, for the beer could Lava
knocked it over with one blow of his paw, and-
wentuptotbedoorotthstavern. ’
“Pard, I wants a room {or two. ’ca’se my

horse sleeps in ther same stall- as I does, an’ I, ,

calkilates stayin’ all night an’ seein’ ther sights o’
ther city. .
“Write us down in yer provender book as
Old Grizzly Adams an' his b’ar, Sampson,
from ther Rocky Mountains.”
“ Is your bear dangerous!” asked the lands

n’t hurt a flea— Condemnationi what are ther
matter?" '

The sudden change in Griuly’s words was
caused by hearing a sudden and unearthly
scream, and springing to the deor'he dlIOOV-i
ered that the docile Sampson had suddenly
seized a pig that had come overland with an
emigrant wagon, and had become a tame pet.

He was just two good mouthfuls for Samp-
son, and Old Grizzly got to the scene just in
time to see piggy’s tall disappearing within the
capacious jaws of the bear.

“Were it a human or a  critter?"_ he '

asked oi! the crowd that stood at I» 
distance. - : < : ~ .
“It were a precious pig," volunteered one. V.
“Thei- pet 0’ that community,” said another,
“ Ther purtiest leetle swine yer ever see."
“We all loved it.”
“Piggy’s gone, an’ ’ill hev no grave fer us
tor w on.” , .
“ V313) did ther hog belong terl” asked Grit,
sly, cutting short the remarks. » _
“ Thar town council," was the answer..
“ How much was he valoo’d at?" , .
“ I’ll let yer on with a V,” said a man 0
most shabby appearance, stepping forward
with extended hand.: ,
“Did ther pig belong ter you!”
“He were my pride, pard," was thsanswer.
“ He belonged to all at us, b’ar man. so staa"
treatr‘ier that crowd, an’ we’ll call it equal."

' The m= who made this remark seemed he
spired, for he had. expressed the wish of the
hundred loafers who stood around, and who

it with a cheer that made Sampson,
shake himself.

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,. don’t let any more of ’em fool round that b’ar,
or they’ll .lisu ppoar.

“ I are 01.1 Grizzly Adams from ther moun-
tains, an’ hevin’ come on a visit ter yer town
tor-make some purchases, I wants ter git ac-
quainted an’ be friendly.

“Thet b’ar are gentle as a leetle lamb, an'
he are my pard; come, Sampson.”

The bear instantly followed his master into
the bar and the old hunter stood treat for all,
though he and Sampson were not crowded.

Sampson took a mug in his paws, at his
mster’s command, stood on his hind feet, and
drunk with a gusto, and then was led oi! a) the
log cabin adjoining, which the landlord hadas-
signed to Old Grizzly as his quarters.

All through the mining country strange
stories had gone, of a hermit hunter living
alone in the mountains, fearless of the Indians
and dangers alike, and with a perfect mastery
over wild beasts, and when Grizzly Adams
emerged from his room, he found himself a
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CHAPTER XIII.
m BOY GABLES.
hh‘is desire to “see the sights,” as be ex-
pressed it, in Miner’s City, Old Grizzly Adams
first ate a square meal, and gave Sampson
ditto

Then he went to the shops to make what
purchases he needed, ooflee, ammunition, a
weapon or two, and a quantity of stout chains
and staples “far my animiles,” as he ex-
pressed it. I -

These were securely put together to pack
upon Sampson, who was to serve the purpose

of pack-horse on the way back to the moun- 1

(nine, and then Grizzly Adams looked about
the camps, determined to make an early start
on the return trip the following morning.

Seeing that the hunter had plenty of money,
or “ dust ” as they called it there, several sports
of the mining fraternity wished to have it
change hands, and consequently hung about
the animal-tamer like leeches.

Their eflorts to get him to drink heavily '

' were fruitlem, for he said:

“ I allus takes a. nip for my stomach‘s sake,
accordin’ ter Scriptur’; but ef I goes beyond
thet, I’ll give my b’ars ter that gerloot thet
sees me do it." .

 

“ Waal I are some on seein’ what thar is to:
be saw, so I’m yer pard fer ther evenin’.”

Thus it was settled and an hour after Old
Grizzly and the young sport entered the gem-
bling saloon.

Luck’s Retreat was a huge shanty of one
story, filled with small tables, a bar at one end,
and at the other a roulette and taro bank stood,
behind which were dealers at work, and before
which were crowds of miners gambling away
their hard earnings; giving ,their hard-earned
gold.dust to some elegant sport who was a per-
fect vampire in their midst.

Oid Grizzly looked curiously on for awhile,
and then his attention was attracted to a mere
boy in appearance who was playing at a table
with a tall, heavily-bearded man, who was a
professional gambler. ,

The man was known as Sanford, the Sport,
and almost invariably was a winner.

Many said he never played a square game,
and yet these who had told him so to his face
had but added to the dead in the burying-
gronnd up the valley.

He lived in a cabin on the mountain side,
three miles away, pretended to work a mine,
but passed most of his days in town, and al- —
wa-ys gambled at night at the Luck’s Retreat
until midnight, when be mounted his horse
and rode home. .

Such was the story told of the rather hand-
some man to Old Grizzly, who listened atten-
tively and then asked:

“Who are ther young ’nnf’

“ The Boy Gambler.”

“He plays keerds, tool”

» “ Yes, and is a fortunate fellow; for he gen-
erally wins.” ' ,

“ Who are he!”

“ Nobody knows.”

“ Hain’t he got no name!"

“Yes, we call him Diamonds, for he sports
a headlight of that kind in his b’iled shirt an
another on his finger.” v

“ He don’t appear to be more’n seventeen
year old?"

“No; he looks about that, and is as hand-
some as a picture. He dropped in here one
morning on the stagecoach, took rooms in the
Valley View Hotel, and begun ther card husi- ,
ness that same night.

“Boys that thought to take him in went

‘ dead broke on him.

“Do you ever play an inneroent little game i
‘ since then they have played regularly every

of cards!” asked one young miner.

“Oh, yes, I loves innercint games, thol I

hasn’t tackled heard: in so long I don’t re- ,
i with Diamonds.”

member much about ’em,” replied Grizzly.

“ Well, we boys have a little amusement of i

that kind every night, at Lnek's Retreat, an’ I
would be delighted to show you round there,
though of course you need not play unless you

 ’wilh'w,”ssidtheinsinustingyeungsport.

“Then be tackled Sanford one night, and

evening, and the Boy Gambler is a. long way
the winner, for the Sport’s cheating don’t go

“ Ther boy are a. likely-lookin’ youth, I
sw’sr, on’ I’llij take acloser look at ther way /
he fingers ther keerds," said Old Griuly. walk-
ing up to the table where a youth of seventeen
apparently, museum“. and with a broad

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sombrero shading his face, sat playing cards
with the long-bearded man before referred to.
As they approached, the man said, angrily:

“Boy, that is the fiftieth consecutive game
you have won, and only one way can that be
done.”

“How is that, Sport?” asked the boy, indifv
ferently.

“ By cheating!”

The anSWer of the boy was a burst of rude
laughter, which caused Old Grizzly to say:

“ Thet child hev got grit, an' I are his friend
of thar be a pow—wow in ther air.”

 

CHAPTER XIV.
szzmr ADAMS KEEPS ms wean.

“ BETTER not interfere, pard, where Sanford
the Sport is interested,” suggested the gum-
bling miner, who had Old Grizzly in tow,
showing him the sights.

“I interferes jist whar I is needed, Pard
Sharp, so don’t you offer me no advice,” was
the abrupt reply, and the card sharp earth“
the hunter was not a man to brook interfen
once.

“ Do you‘dare laugh in my face, boy i" cried
Sanford, at the ringing laughter of the youth.

“ Yes, and at you too, Sanford, for the
laugh is on my side, as I hold the winning
cards.” »

“And I say you cheat.” '

“Bah! I have but matched your rascality—
hold on, man, for I cover you.”

With ‘a quickness and nerve wholly unexpec-
ted the boy had drawn a revolver and gotten
the drop on the man;

Sanford never moved, but gazed earnestly
into the face of the youth, and then, for the
first time seemed to realize that he had seen
him are he came to Miner's City, for he asked in
a low, husky voice:

“Have we not met before, boy?”

“We have.”

“ Who are you?"

“ I am the little boy you taught to play an
innooent game of cards, and whose sister you
ran off with and deserted, causing her to com-
mit suicide.

“ That act killed my poor mother, and as
you had robbed us of our fortune, murdered
my sister and mother, I swore to revenge my-
self on you, and I have tracked you here.

“Your money I have won from you, and
your iifeI will have.”

All was now excitement in the saloon, for
the boy looked it that he would do what he
said.

But just then one of Sanford’s friends, a
bully and a desperado, who stood at one side

 

of the youth, suddenly thrust a revolver
against his head, and said:

“Letnup, upon the Sport, boy, or I pals t

Hardly had the words left his lips when the
weapon was knocked from his hand, and his
form was seized seemingly in the arms of a
giant, and hurled across the table against
Sanford, upsetting him in his chair, and cans-
ing both men to roll together upon the floor.

Springing upon the table, after this daring
act, and exhibition of wonderful strength,
with a weapon in either hand, he covered the
Sport and his friend, and shouted:

“Pards, I holds trumps jist now an’ any
biz yer hes with this hear youth bin he settled.
decint an’ in order, for I said as how I'd be his.
friend, an’ hour I are, Old Grinly Adams
from ther Rocky Mountains at yer service."

It was evident that the youth was as greatly
surprised at so uddenly finding afrieud there,
as were the others at the daring act of Old
Grinly.

“ I thank you, sir; but I came here to hunt
Roy Sanford to earth, and it has got to be
his life or mine," said the youth firmly.

“ Like as not, leetle pard, an’ it shell be, for
I'll see fa’r play, even in a dog fight. ‘

“ I has them babes on thar lloor kivered, an’
they can’t kick the: kiverin’ off ontil I calls
risin’ time. '

“Now what does yer want ter hev did?"
and Old Grizzly-addrBSSed the boy, though he
did not take his eyes of! the two men, who.
still lay where they had fallen upon lhe floor,
not daring to rise, for there was that in the
hunter’s face that told them it would he, cer-
tain death. u

“ All I ask is that Sanford meet me in a»
fair fight with pistols.” said the youth

“ He hain’t worth killin’, leetle par-d.” .

“ He is a villain, and I wish to end his devil.
tries.”

“ You is too young ter face that man."

“I am nineteen, and it don’t always take
age to make a man." --

“That are Gospil, fer I were a lively kid
when I were small.

“ Does yet know t’other gerlootl”

M No.” '

“Then I guess he’d betterakin out, onion
yer wants ter shoot him.” \ >

“ No, I have nothing against hi, though it
was a coward’s act to carer me when my quar-
rel was with Roy Sanfo ”

“ It were fer a fact; come, yer sneak 0‘ sin,
grease yer-self durned quick, and silently slip
out 0’ this hour camp-meetlu’, or I’m _ con-
demned of I doesn't feed yer ter my‘h’ar, '1
Sampson.” ’ A

The bully
way, but either terrified at Old Grisly’s pl“,
or the fear of becoming food for Sampson, he
quickly departed from the saloon. ' v

“ He hev made himself absent, loath field,

so now what’s ter he did with thiaheur stemu 4‘. _-

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“Roy Sanford, will you meet me as man to ‘ men-‘39 I eXPec‘is *5." send you than “11'—

man” asked the boy.
“ Yes, and kill you, too,” was the savage re-
joinder.

“ That‘s to be proven, and if this kind gen- 1

tleman will arrange it, we will fight here.”

“I are a b’ar-tamer, I hain’t no gentleman,
Boy Pard; but I are hour in this yarth ter do
good, so I’ll flx ther thing fer yer, an’ bury
yer prime ef yer goes under; but yer better let
me shoot him for yer.”

“No, I must face that man myself.”

, “Let me set Sampson on him.”

“ ls Sampson the huge grizzly I saw you
have to-day?”

4‘ He m.”

The youth smiled, but answered:

“ No, that man must meet me in fair fight.”
tnI‘I‘VVaal, I’ll set ter-morrer mornin’ for ther

“ I were a-goin’ away only ter git home,

but I allus are willin’ ter ’commydate a friend. 1

“Does it suit yer ter say sun-up at thei-
creek crossiu’i”

“1t is satisfactory to me, if that man does
not runaway during the night,” said the
youth.

“If he do, I’ll trail him fer yer.

“Now, Long Beard, does it suit you?”

“ I hate to be drawn in a. muss with the boy;
but as he swears publicly to kill me from some
fancied wrong at his hands, I‘ll be there and
end,the matter.”

/ “ That are sufficient; now, sonny, yer jist
go home an’ sleep all yer kin, an’ me an’ Samp-
son will call for yer ’arly,” ‘

“I thank you, sir,” and the youth left the
saloon, and Sanford the Sport resumed his
seat once more.

But Old Grizzly did not move and still stood
confronting the gambler, a queer look upon his
rough but honest face. . ~

 

CHAPTER XV.
Garzer PAYS a near.

mom! had the youth disappeared from
Luck Retreat, and the crowd, believing the
troubles ended for the present, were turning
toward the irrespective tables, when Old Grizzly
said in his quiet way, addressing the gambler:

“You is heard sharp, hain’t yer?”

“Bay, old man, if you want trouble with
me after I have sent that boy to the devil, you
can have it, but now go away and let me
alone,” was the angry reply of Sanford.

, ,Old Grizzly laughed quietly, and said:

“ Waal, it are my opinion yer don’t send
that, boy to ther devil, an’ ef yer w’u’d like
that .I, give my reasons why, I’ll do it.”

“Well. w y will I not?”

Hold on, for yer see I hes my popper-box p’int«
ed at yer,” and the hunter’s pistol covered the

1 gambler's heart. .

“ What is it you want with me?” asked San-

“ ford, livid with rage, for be felt that for the

second time that night he was cutting a sorry

, figure, and before, he had always held his

own, if not been the victor.

“I’ll tell yer, Lawyer Sanford, what I hes
ag’in’ yer, an’ what I wants with yer.”

“ Do you know me?” quickly asked the
gambler.

“ I does.”

“ Who am I?”

“ Lawyer Roy Sanford, o’ a leetle town in
York State as I c’u’d name, but won’t, fer I
don’t want folks for think we breeds sich trash,
as you is, in them parts.” ‘

“I fail to recognize you,” and the gambler
seemed to peer into the very soul of the hunter.

“ Like as not! but ef yer thinks I are goin’
tar stan’ by an’ see yer kill thet boy, yer is a
howlin’ mistaken liar.

“ Ther right may triumph, an’ must, ther
parsons tell us, or net ter when I ’tended
meetin’; but yer were allus a gamecook, an’
yer hes a steady narve, an’ I fears thet Provi-
dince might forgit ther boy, so I jist intends
ter chip in an’ take his place ag’in’ yer.”

“After I meet the boy I’ll meet you.”

“ Nary, fer I knows yer, an’ I doesn’t b’lieve
ther mornin’ sunshine w’u’d shine on yer in this
hour valley.” -

“ My quarrel is just with the boy, and if
you know me, as you seem to, you are aware I
am not a man to run from death.”

“Oh! you’ll take chances, an’ big ones, but
yer won’t take sartinties ag’in’ yer, an’ it are
sure death fer yer ter face me.”

“ I’ll risk that to-morrow.”

“ No yer don’t, fer .it‘s got ter be did ter
night. a
“I hain’t no immejit quarrel with yer, Law-
yer Sanford, an' I doesn’t want yer life on my
han’s; but J edge Townsend. t-her father 0’ that
boy did me afavor oust, fer when I got my

, leg broke by a cussed oxen near his home he

tuk me thar an’ nussed me fer five months.

“ An’ his wife an’ darter, an’ that boy. who
were a leetle one then, was good ter me as tho’
I had been kin folks an’ was ’spectin’ ter leave
’em a fortin, an’ they only tuk thankee fer thar
trouble.

“I knows well that ther Jedge tuk yer in
lawyerin’ with him, an’ when he died some-
time arter, that were some as said yer had kilt

him.

' “ An’ I knows that yer deceived the gal, got

that fortin’ in yer han’s an’ then desarted all.
“It wasn’t my cirkiss, but I did want ter

meet yer sometime, an’ I hes done it, an’ new I

says that yer hes got to face me at ten footttonv

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twenty foot, fer I don’t car’ a foot or two, an’
I’ll perwent yer killin’thet boy."

“ You have preached your sermon, and had
an attentive congregation, so now listen to me, "
said Sanford, with a sneer.

“ I hev ears, so say yer say.”

“Tomorrow I will meet the boy, and as
soon as that matter is over I will give you all
the satisfaction you want.”

“Nary, fer I is goin’ tor git satisfied now,
an’ you hears me talk when I says thet ef yer
don’t git across that room, draw yer weepin,
an’ march onto me a-shootin’, when somebody
heur gives ther word, darned ef I don’t bore
daylight clean through yer an’ feed yer ter
Sampson, of ther eatin’ of yer makes him sin-
ful too.”

Sanford was very pale, but convinced that he
had to face the alternative, and knowing that
every eye was upon him, be said, in an air of
assumed indifference:

“ If you are determined to meet me to-uight,
Griuly Bear, I guess these gentlemen will lay
aside their games for a. minute, and Bant I
know will give us the use of the Retreat for
the duel."

“ Ef not, thar are plenty 0’ room outside,
an’ it are moonlight.”

“ Fight it out here,” cried the man behind
the bar, and who was Bent, the proprietor.

“As it are your shanty, pard, perhaps you
will give that word fer ter sit ther music goiif’,”
and Old Grizzly turned to Bent. I

“ With pleasure, gentlemen, for I always do-
sire to accommodate.

“Here, Sanford, take your stand at that end,
and you, Grinly What’s-yer-name, go to the
other end. i . l

“ Revolvers, I suppose?” and Bent was as‘
polite and. pleasant as though arranging a ‘
quadrille.

“That are my weepin, tho’ I hain’t pertick- ]
131'.” l

“Yes, revolvers, and fire as often as we'
wish," said Sanford,

“You kin jist shoot as often as yer pleases,
Roy Sanford; but as fer me, I guesses one shot
’ill be enough, as I doesn’t waste no powder au’

”

This remark of Old Grizzly showed that hr
had perfect confidence in himself; but Sanford
had 8.150 assumed an air of calmness that
amounted almost to indifference, and, walking
up tothe bar, he called for a glass of liquor
and dashed it off.

Then he fired his revolver sixtimes down
into the floor, and carefully reloaded it, which
caused Grizzly Adams to remark:

“ Ef he hain’t no more confidence in himself
than he hev in his revolver, he hed better look
out. _

“As fer me, when I hes a loaded weepiu, I

 

kin count on its shootiu’ every time,"

The gambler, having loaded his revolver to
suit himself, walked to the bar and again
dashed oi! a glues of liquor. »

“ Thet are whisky grit be are fillin’ himself
with, an’ it don’t hang long," muttered Old
Grizzly as he walked to the place amigned‘him,
by Bent, with the air of a man who was going
to do the most commonplace thing in the
world. ‘

At length both men were upon their respec-
tive stands, and at each end of the saloon.

Along the walls on either side were ranged
the lookers on, fully a hundred in number, and
all commuting in their rough way regarding

‘he affair.

Half way between the two combatants, and
to the right, stood Bent, a glass in his hand,
which he was to drop as a signal for the firing
to commence. -

“ Are you ready?” asked Bent.

“Certainly, always,” said Sanford, with a. »

smile. . ,

“ I are,” answered Old Grizzly. '

Bent held forth his hand with the glass in:
it, and then let it fall. ~ ’

Ere it shivered upon the floor there was a
pistol-shot.

It came from Old Grimly, for he had been-
too quick for the gambler, whose weapon was
not fired.

With a spring into the air Roy Sanford fell
his full longth upon the floor, a. dead man. '-

“ You have killed him," cried Bent, springer
ing to his side.

_ “I knows that, for that were my aim,” and-

as Grizzly Adams spoke he proceeded to quietly \
reload his weapon. , 

“Whar are that sharp that wanted tor
tackle me for a :game 0’ keordsi” asked'the,
hunter. w - ‘
“I am here, sir,” somewhat timidly said
that individual coming forward. ' ‘ '

“Waal, git yer keel-d3 an’ yer. table while

I pays expenses for what I did heur, as it ‘
arehnt right I sh’u’d treat the: corpse tern _

burial. - .
“Say, pard, what are expenses for dirt-
kiverin’ a. man in this heur town?” and Old

Griuly turned to Bent, who said with a light '

laugh: ‘ ~ ~

“Never mind, my friend, for I’ll bury him,
as Sanford has spent many a dollar in my
place.”

.“Thet are hsn’some of yer to be sure.

“ Waal, see that be are planted well.”

Then taming to his gambling acquaintance,
he continued: . H

“ Now, I are ready. pard, an’ play squar’.”

Whether the gambler cheated, or non-Old:
Grizzly could not tell, but certain it is that her
did not play cards as well as he shot, ud after-
a couple of hours he arose from the tubing:
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20 Old. Grind, Mans, the Bear Tuner.

 

“Waal, I guesa I'll return tar my den in
ther mount’ins, me an’ Sampson; but 1’“ take
\ along a pack 0’ keerds an’ practise up a leetle,
so as tu tackle yer when I comes down ag’in.
“Tell ther boy, Freddy Townsend, that I
got squar’ on Roy Sanford fer thet past wicked-
ness he did ag’in’ his fambly, an’ wish him
good-bye for me.
“ It are my treat, pards, an’ then I’ll git.”

And backto the mountains that night Old ‘3

Grizzly started, walking by Sampson’s side,
for the bear carried the pack, and behind him
in Miner‘s City he left a name that went fly-
ing along the border from one end to the

CHAPTER XVI.
,m m mrrs nmcx CLOUD.

Sou ten days after his return from the
mines, 01d Grizzly was seated in front of his
cabin, rubbing up his fire—arms, a favorite
amusement with him, for they were his tree.
lures above his savage pets.

He was feeling a little sore, for he had only
two days before had a hard fight with a
grizzly hear he had wounded, and which died
hard.

“ Ther boy oughter be gittiu’ back,” he said,
glancing toward the entrance to the canyon,
and referring to Wild Wolf the Indian youth,
who had gone out on a hunt for game.

, But night came on and the boy not return-

ing, Old Grizzly called to Calamity, his dog,

and was about to start forth on a hunt for
him, tearing some accident had befallen him,
when the growl of the grizzly sentinel, and

then a low whine, told him that the youth was
returning. ‘

A few moments after Wild Wolf’ entered
the cabin, and the hunter saw that he had no
game, and asked:

1 “ Has yer been over to ther willage 0’ Chief
O-kee’s, Wolf, conrtin’ Injnn gals?”

“ The Wild Wolf has been on the trail of a
pale-face."

“A white man in those parts, an’ you a
trailin’ him?” asked Old Grizzly.

“ The pale-face is a young brave like Wolf.”

4‘ Na”

“ He was alone, an’ Wolf was near him; but
the warriors of Black Cloud sprung upon him,
and he was made captive; but he fought like a
great chief, and three Cheyenne warriors were
sent to the happy hunting grounds."

“Waal I sw’ar this are news, Wolf; but
‘ were the boy kilti" ‘

“ No, he was taken alive.”

“And you followed!”

"The Cheyenne braves did not see me and I
followed their trail and saw them go toward
the village of Black Cloud.

“Then Wild W01! came to tell the Bear
mm ,

   

“You did right, and to-morrow I’ll make a
ieetle visit ter them Cheyennes, an’ find out
what they is goin’ ter do with ther boy."

And bright and early Old Grizzly saddled
Sampson and started for the Indian camp.

He knew well that though his presence in the

mountains was tolerated by the Cheveunes, for
saving the life of their chief, they both feared
, and hated him:
He had met them in the mountains, when
l hunting, and they had avoided him, and he
‘ had never been to their village, though he did
not fear he would be harmed.

Still he cared not to tempt them too far.

The tribe of O kee-mul-gee he was on good
terms with, though he knew that they too
closely watched his movements, and some of
the warriors had acted very coldy toward him
since the mysterious disappearance of Blue
Snake, which none of the red-skins could ac-
count for.

Deeth-in-the-trail, the Ute chief, had asked
Old Grizzly if he knew what had become of
the sub—chief, Blue Snake, or had seen him.

But the hunter looked the picture of inno-
cence, and replied that he had in no way
harmed him.

Several times in hunting, the Pawnee boy
hadbeen fired at in the mountains, by both
Ute and Cheyenne warriom: but he had es-
caped unhurt each time.

Notwithstanding this unfriendly spirit to-
ward him, Old Grizzly boldly set out for the
village of Black Cloud, to see it he could serve
the boy whom Wild Wolf had said the
Cheyennes had made captive.

His long experience as a woodsman andhun-
ter in his old home, had fully acquainted Old
Grizzly with all kinds of woodcraft, and his
life in the Rocky Mountains had made him
more cunning than an Indian even, and capa-
ble of going where be pleased with little danger.

'The surroundings of the Cheyenne village

the hunter well knew, and he reached a spot
from whence he could reconnoiter without dif-
ficulty, although red skin sentinels were out on
the watch upon every quarter.
, Having decided that his only course was to
enter the village and ask Black Cloud for the
,youth, claiming to be a friend of his, Grizzly
Adams mounted his bear and boldly rode down
the steep hillside into the village.

The huge grizzly was the first discovered by
a party of Indian children and they ran with
wild cries of alarm to the tepees.

Then the old squaws took up the cries, and
upon seeing the hunter on the back of the bear,

‘ almost universal consternation prevailed, un-
til Black Cloud, coming out of the council
lodge with his warriors, recognized the White

 

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But how bad he eluded the Indian outposts
and come that way to the village?

If he and a bear had passed through their
lines, others might do the same, and, like the
wary general be was, Black Cloud sent run-

yer eyes open an’lookont fer squaflgfer I
hain’t no durned fool.”

Old Grizzly turned his savage steed to the
right-about, and left the surprised and deeply-
impreesed Indians gazing after him with con-

ners out to spread the word that the sentinels ' siderable awe.

were keeping poor guard over the village.

Recognizing the chief, Old Grizzly headed
straight toward him, though few remained to
welcome him among the fair sex and pappooses
when they gazed upon the savage animal he
rode.

“ The Black Cloud’s tepee is open to the
White Death," said the chief with dignity, not
moving as the grizzly halted within two feet
of him and snifled about his legs as though he
thought he would make a good meal for him.

“ Thet are han’some of yer, Black Cloud,
I‘ll sw’ar, fer I knows I is not pop’ler with yer
red niggers.

“ But I hasn’t come ter board with yer, only
ter ax yer ter do ther right thing, an‘ give me
ther paleface boy 0' mine yer hes here.”

The chief, in spite of his stolid nature,
started and asked:

“ Why says the White Death that Black
Cloud has a pale-face captivei"

“Thar are no need 0’ doublin’ yer tongue up
with lies, chief, fer I are ther Evil Spirit 0’
ther Mountains, an' I knows all as is goin' on
in this kentry.

“Ef yer don’t give up ther boy yer’ll hear
ther voice 0’ ther Great Spirit this very night
in ther thunder, an’ see ther arrows of fire he
shoots across ther heavens.”

Black Cloud looked troubled, and after a
moment said:

“My warriors did bring in a pale face brave,
a very young warrior.”

“Like as not when I knows it.”

“ He killed three of my braves, and he is now
in the strong lodge awaiting the coming of an
other sun, when he must die.”

“ Not a dumed bit will he die, Black Cloud,
an’ I tell yer ther Great Spirit will this night
show his anger to you.”

“ What will the Great Spirit do!” asked the
chief, curiously, while his warriors pressed
more closely around him.

“ Does yer see thet mountain cliff yonder?"
and Old Grizzly pointed to a cliff fully five
hundred feet in night, and the base of which
was a few hundred yards from the tepees. "

The chief nodded.

“ Weal, I will go ther now, and when ther
night hev come I’ll ask ther Great Spirit of the
boy must die.

“Ef ther Great Spirit wants him ter die,
ther will be no sound; but of ther boy must
live, then that will be fiery arrows flyln’ round

, an’ a roarin’ voice.

“New. I are goin’, an’jist you Injuns keep

Up the hillside they saw him go and disap-
ipear; but just at sunset he reappeared upon
,the edge. of the cliff, standing upright, and
:with arms stretched forth and upward ll
though in prayer. V

CHAPTER XVII.
A BIG scam. -

WHEN Old Grizzly reached the clifl, the
very spot from whence a few hours before he
had reconnoitered the Indian village, he stepped
forward, leaving Sampson in the beck-ground,
and went through a number of ridinulous
motions, ending them by apparently praying.

Then he stepped back in the thicket, and sat
down by a large bundle he had hidden there
before going to the camp.

juns this night, then I hope Sampson may
chaw me up fer elk meat." ,
With this the hunter laughed flood, and
with evident relish.
“They calls me Old Grizzly, ’eese my ha'r

I are jist forty,an’are aswiseas a owl, as
them Injuns shell diskiver.

“Fast an’ foremost this leetle tech 0’ rheu-
matiz I has in my j’ints, tells me thar are tor
be a thunder storm this night 0? Our Lord.

“Ag’in, I were wise enough when in Miner

use fer, an’ them were these, which I thought
w'u’d help me in my animile biz." '
As he spoke he unrolled the bundle, a large

various kinds were displayed.
Then he unfastened a bear robe, end what

drummer.

“ Weal, thet storeman told me them rockets
were brought over fer ther sogers ter celebrate
ther Fourth 0’ July, but never reached ’em, as
ther wagons was stolen, sn’ he brought ther
lot in, ’spectin’ tor make a fortin.

“But he slipped up, an’ I got ther lot for e
twenty.

“ Ther gong he bed bought an speckilation;
nn’ sold it to ther landlord; but ther ‘ust time

it were a yarthquake, an’ it skeert ’em lothet
they swore they’d kill the bash-house oep’nef
he didn’t dispose of it.

“He sold it back to ther stereman,-end .I
thought it w’u‘d be jist young thunder in the.
hour mounting an’ I’ll try it on fer-night. '

 

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are gray, but thet are no sign 0? age or Wily
dom, tho’ it are ther latter in my case, seein’ as 7
City ter parchase suthin’ nobody else bed any,

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“E! it don’t‘ skeer them Injuns. then I’ll
emigrate ter ther Sierras, an’ run ther mena-
gerie biz thar.

“ But'I are afeerd it will skeer old Sampson
clean out 0’ his skin, so I'll explain it to him,
fer he has got ter be in ther panoramer ter-
night.”

The hunter next unrolled apiece of white
sheeting, and with his knife, cut it into what
shape he desired, and then fastened it together
,with a needle, which he never went without.

When completed the sheeting had been trans-
formed into a huge garment, large enough to
fully envelope Sampson.

It was now dark, and, with the quiet, mat-
ter-of-faot way peculiar to him, Old Grizzly
sat down to his frugal supper, giving a haunch
of venison to his savage companion, with the
remark:

“ Yer kin eat ther rest 0’ thet deer I kilt ter
morrer, Sam, fer yer hes got tor act tar-night,
an;I y’er can’t. do yerselt justice on a full stom-
ac .

He then led the bear to the edge of the clifi’
and chained him securely to the‘stump of an
old lightning-riven pine.

I t Then he got his gong and touched it up
softly, until he got the brute accustomed to the
sound. .

Next he built a very small fire, keeping the
blaze sheltered behind a rock, and laying his
rockets out in order, he attached a fiery wheel

 

 

I to the pine stump.

A whirl-i-gig was fastened to the limb'of o

. tree, just over the fire, and the shooting-stick

rockets, some two score in number were placed
,Just at hand.

“Come, Sampson. an’ do yer duty," he said

 he put the white garment upon the huge
st

“Now stand up, air.”

The bear obeyed.

“ Stretch out yer arms, like a person givin’
benediction, Sampson.”

The grizzly again obeyed.

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l move from his upright position, and a stern
l command from the hunter quieted him.

I Then another rocket was set off. and au-
. other, the goug still kept going, and next the
‘ fiery wheel and whirl-i-gig were set going,
, and springing back to his place of concealment,
1 Old Grizzly began anew on his gong, and con-

tinued sending 01! his stick rockets.

It was certainly a weird, startling sight,
there in that wilderness, and upon that wild
crag for above the valley, with the huge bear

‘ seeming like some giant spirit of the clouds,
covered as he was in white, and with his fore
legs extended, growling in terror, and moving

‘ uneasily, yet more afraid of his master, and
still keeping his position.

Then, too, the fiery arrows from. the stick
rockets, the wheel of fire, and the zigzag mo-
tions of the fuses in the tree, together with the
roaring gong. made up a scene sublimely
awful and terrific to the superstitious Indians,
whose cries reached the ears of the hunter,
causing him to dance with glee.

Suddenly the flery'arrows ceased, the wheel
of fire and whirl-i-gig went out as though
doused in water, the gang racket ended and all
was silent on the clifl. ‘

“ Waal, Sampson, we hev did nobly, an’
yer shell chaw on that other haunch o’ venzon
jist tar calm yer narves, fer yer were skeert
an’ no mistake.

“But we hev did that biz, an’ now must
take a back seat while ther Great Spirit tarns
loose his arrers o’ lightnin’ and speak, fer ther
storm are a-breukin’."

Hardly had the hunter gained shelter be-
neath a shelving rock for himself, when
there came 3 [Joel of terrific thunder that fairly
shook the clifl’, and rolling up the valley

‘ sounded like the roar of a hundred guns.

But wrapping himself in his robes. and with
Sampson crouching near, Old Griuly laid
down and sunk to sleep, wholly unmindful of

the raging storm.

“Now stan’ thar until I dismiss ther camp-

msetin’.” '

Goin‘ hack to the fire, Old Grizzly took up
his gong and fastened it to a swinging branch,
attaching the drummer by a cord, so that he
could get hold of it easily.

Then he began to let it roll forth its terrific

I, racket.

At first slowly, and gradually getting louder
and louder until it was deafening, and could
be heard all over the Indian village, and echoed
again- and again against the mountain sides
and up the canyon.

Still heating with one hand, with the other
be seized a stick rocket, thrust the end into the
fire, and sent the fiery dart flying through the
heaven... i  . . .

Sampson gave 'a startled howl, but did not

CHAPTER XVIII.

rm: BUS! A SUCCESS-WHAT THE mnwom
ACCOMPLISHED.

Wm: the very first glimmer of day Old
Grizzly awoke. '

. Sampson lay quietly by his side, and both
were as dry as though they had spent the
night in doors, for the rain had not beam in
under the rock.

“Come, Sampson, we hev for be on ther
trot, as soon as I hev destroyed ther evidincea
thet we is two darned big frauds, playin’
Great Spirit an’ sioh with firewokets, gouge
an’ yer gean garmint I made yer.

“ I are ready now, so come along.”

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rocket-sticks were put in the tire to burn up,

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and down the mountain side clambered the
bear and his master.

It was a. very evident fact to Old Grizzly
that there had not been much sleep in the
Indian village that night, and he laughed
heartily over the fright he had given them.

“Thar they is, ther warriors all around ther
council-lodge, an’ ther squaws gabbin’ at ther
tepees same as wimmins allus will gab, even
when thar is nothin’ goin’ on.

“ Waal, I hev given ther meetin’ a surprise-
party, an‘ now I guesses that boy won’t die."

In a little while O'd Grizzly, mounted on his
bear. trotted up to where Black Cloud stood
with some of his warriors around him.

All lolked anxious, and certainly none of
them had had the hardihood to sleep any after
the scenes of the past night, for the thunder
storm did not blow itself out until after mid-
night.

“Waal, Black Cloud, did yer see any sign
from ther Great Spirit, thet ther pale-face cap-
tive are not ter be bur-ted?”

Old Grinly asked the question with an inno-
cence that was remarkable, while as he drew
near the warriors gave way before him, a:

much in terror of him, if not more than of ,

the bear.

tongue, for the Great Spirit has spoken to his

red children,” said the chief in his dignified,
tones, yet keeping a little further off from the j
hunter than he had the day before, for now he 
did look upon him as indeed the Evil Spirit of , me,
‘1 and if you had not saved me I’d have gone
“ Yes, I thought he’d hev suthin’ ter say 0’ ‘ ' ‘ "

the Mountain.

a pleasant kind.

“ Did he show hisself, Black Cloud!”

“The White Death has spoken, for the
Great Spirit stood on the edge of the cliff with
arms outstretched above his red children.”

“Yes. I bed an idea he w’u’d show hisself fer

this lovin’ flock o’ his’n, so I lay low; but he ‘

wasn’t mad a bit, were he!"

“The Great Spirit was angry with his red
children.”

“Like as not, for they does a heap ter rile
him, but he’ll git over his mad when yer gives
up that boy ter me.” «

Instantly Black Cloud turned to two of his
warriors and bade them go to the strong lodge
and fetch the captive.

In a few minutes they returned,'lesding the
prisoner with them, and he limped, as though
lame from the bonds that had been drawn
tight around his ankles.

He was pale, but were a fearless look, and
one glance into his face showed Old Grily
that he had not been wrong in his surmise that
it was the Boy Gambler, known as Diamonds
in Miner‘s City. 3

“ Yes, it were jist what I bed expected
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hed; it are Freddy Townsend, an’ no 'mis-
take.” '

The boy started as he saw the hunter and a
smile passed over his face, whiie he 
about to speak, but checked his words at a
warning glance from Old Grizzly, who said:

“Waal, Boy Pard, thet Great Spirit he?
said ter Black Cloud, ther great Cheyenne
chief, thet yer is not ter die, an’ I hev come ter
take yer away. ‘ ‘ "‘

“Yer is a leetle lame, I see, so jist mount
on old Sampson, ah‘ I do ther walkin’.”

Without the slightest hesitation, and unmind-
ful of the growl Sampson gave at this change
of riders, Diamonds sprung into the saddle, and.
Old Grizz'y, after a few words of farewell to
Black Clond, turned and walked away, the
bear keeping close to his side. ‘ ,

“Waal, lad, yer got nabbed by ther red',’I
see,” said the hunter, as they left the Indian
village, under the awod gaze at elven the small-
est pa poose. ’

“YES, I was seeking you,‘old man. to tth
you for killing Sanford, and say how“ much
you disappointed me, for I had sworn to kill
him orbe killed,” ‘ ' - ’ '

“It is better as it are, Boy Yard; but, yer}.

,‘ game ter come alone inter these hear moun-
“ The White Death has talked with a straight ’

tains.”
“ Oh! I knew that you dWelt here, and lam
a good border man, if I am young, and expect-
ed to be able to dodge the red-skins and find
ou.
“But they jumped me and you found

under. > H
“But in the name of goodnessmld mun,

how did you raise all that rumpus last night!” .

01d Grizzly laughed heartily,~and asked: 7

“ Was ther Injuns skeerti” ‘ 3"

“Scared! That is no name for it, and" for
awhile I too thought the world was coming to
an end. ' ' ‘

“ But then I recognized the rocket-and get 3

them down fine; but what you made the ,rsckbt
with nobody coald warmth”; d, m
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reach?! the tap of the hm, he drew forth'his
gong from its concealment, and, Diamonds
joined him in the laugh. , ' I
“Now, boy, whatisterbedid!" ‘ ’4
“Oh! I have come to pay you a visit of‘e
few weeks, and then I am going back borne to
lead a good life, for I have only gambled to
hunt down Roy Sanford.  "
“ Am I welcome, old man!" ‘ ~

“Say, young ’un, Wasn’t I months n2 5%: , I
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father‘s house, an' welcome, an’ d..." '

“Ha! I have it; you are Hunter Adams,"x

cried the youth.
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but now I sre‘calt Old‘ Gfl-iy‘t

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, Monarch o’ ther Mountains, an’ whatever else
I’ll git ter be ther good Lord only knows.

“ Come, boy, an‘ I’ll take yer ter my den an’

show yer my menagerie.”

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CHAPTER XIX.
a nose wrrn ROAD—AGREE.

FOB several months did the youth, whom
the hunter had so well befriended, remain a
guest in the lone cabin in the canyon; but at
last be determined to return to his home in the
East, save what he could from his fortune and
go to work.

As there were purchases he wished to make,
Old Grizzly went with him to Miner’s City,
the two riding mustangs, which formed a part
of the old hunter’s “tambly,” as he called al
the dwellers in the canyon. ‘

They had reached the mountain stage-road,
some miles from Miner’s City, and were riding
leisurely along, when they heard the rumble
of wheels approaching.

“ It are ther overland hearse,” said Old
Grizzly. '

Hardly had be spoken when suddenly there
was heard a stern voice crying:

“ Halt that coach, or die!

“Up with your hands!”

The rumble of wheels ceased, and the old
hunter and the youth looked at each other, and
both knew what it meant.

The one who had issued the stern and threat-
ening command could not be more than a hun-
dred yards from them, around a bend in the
road, for there were heard other voices, evi-
dently talking in great excitement.

“Road-agints,” said Grizzly Adams.

“ Let us bounce them then,” quickly replied
the youth.

“ Thet are the hill 0’ fare; come, Boy Pard."

With this the two rode forward slowly, so
that their approach could not be heard, and the
next moment dashed round the bend at full
speed, their pistols in their hands.

A thrilling scene presented itself, for there
stood in the road a stage-coach and six horses,
and the driver on the box was holding his
hands above his head.

Before the leaders stood a rough-looking vil-
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stagecoach were two more, heavily armed.

, The doors of the vehicle were open, and a
sixth term was visible on the step of the coach
and evidently robbing the pamengers.

Two shots, ringing out together almost, was
the first knowledge the road-agents had of dan-
ger, or the passengers of succor.

And with those two shots two road-agents
fell dead. '

The next instant Old Grizzly and his Boy
Parddashedright in upon the scene, and for,

an instant there was a rapid rattle of re-
volvers. .

Then‘ the fight ended, and the road-agent
and one of his men had bounded into the
thicket and escaped, leaving four of their com-
rades behind them dead.

“ The driver hadgathered up his reins once
more, and half a dozen frightened faces peered
out of the coach upon their brave rescuers.

“Waal, pards, we owes yer suthin’,” said
the driver, addressing 01d Grizzly.

“ Yer are mistook, pard, fer we enjoyed ther
cirkiss as far as it went.

“I hopes ther are no damage did ter car-
kisses an’ pusses?"

“Thanks to you, my man, and your brave
young friend, we are safe. and our money is
too, for those rascals left the booty they do-
manded of us,” said a handsome old gentleman
in the coach, who sat on the back seat with a
lovely young girl evidently his daughter.

“Waal, you kin drive on, an’ we’ll do ther
service over these heur dead folks,” and Old
Grizzly pointed to the dead road-agents.

The elderly gentleman said something in a
low tone to his .tellow-passengers, which all
assented to, and then turning to Old Grizzly,
he continued:

“ I hope, my man, that you and your young
friend will accept a purse of gold from us for
your gallant—”

“ Hold on jist thar, old pard, fer yer means
well, but is durnedly of! yer base e! yer thinks
Old Grizzly Adams, of ther Rocky Mount’ins,
an’ his Boy Pard, is a-goin’ ter take yaller
metal for doin’ ther squar‘ thing for teller-hu-
mans in distress.

“ I is ugly-lookin’, I knows, but I are white
an’ squar’, an’ as fer that youngster, be are
clean grit to ther heart.

“We mout luk thro’ ther pockets 0’ ther
dead agints, but we don’t take no man’s, or
wimmins’, dust fer doin’ our dooty.

“ You kin drive on, pard.” ,

It was evident that Old Grizzly’s honest re-
fusal of the money made a goodimpression;
but before a reply could be made, the driver,
anxious to get in on time, cracked his whip
and the coach rolled rapidly away.

Without looking after it, even, the hunter
dismounted and tore the mask from the dead
face nearest to him. 7

“ Pard, this are ther very gerloot as dropped
his shooter on you ther night 0’ yer row with
santord.” .

“ And here is the young sport I saw trying
to rope you into a game of cards with him,
and who was a perfect black-leg,” said the
youth, removing amask from another one of
the dead road agents.

“ It are fer a fact; weal, l are even with
him now.”

   

 
  

 

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An examination of the pockets of the road.
agents revealed the fact, from several letters
found on one of the men, that Roy Sanford
had been a secret member of the band of rob-
bers.

The bodies were hastily buried, as well as
was possible, in some crevices of the rocks, and
mounting their horses the two friends rode on
to Miner’s City.

CHAPTER XX.
GRIZZLY sun run cauennas.

UPON arriving in Miner’s City, Old Grizzly
and Diamonds put up at the Valley View
Hotel, and found themselves heroes in a very
short time, for the next stage in brought the
news of the road-agents’ attack, having met
the vehicle that had been halted by the rob-
bers. ,

Then too, Old Grizzly’s fame was spreading
like wild-fire, for friendly Indians had told
marvslous stories regarding him, and he was
by no means forgotten in Miner's City alter his
duel with Roy Sanford.

Two days did young Townsend remain in the
town, and then bidding farewell to his old
friend, took an eastern hound stage for home,
his heart at rest, after feeling that the wrong
done him, and those he loved, had been
avenged.

After waving a last farewell to the youth,
Old Grizzly made what purchases he needed,
and then went up to Luck’s Retreat, where he
readilygot into a game of cards with a couple
of gamblers, which resulted in his being a wiser
and a poorer man.

Putting his pack of purchases upon the mus-
tang which the youth had ridden, Old Grizzly
set out upon his return, and without adventure
reached his den, where he found that Wild
Wolf had faithfully taken care of the mena‘
gerie.

For some months the old hunter and his
Indian companion, devoted themselves wholly
to laying up stores for the animals in the win—
ter, and also in adding to the collection of wild
beasts, until the canyon did indeed contain 'a
menagerie, as even a skunk had been caught
and placed among the queer assortment of
brute and bird creation.

Going again to the mining camp for his win-
ter stores, Old Grizzly met his two adversaries
in the game of cards. and, unfortunately for
himself played with them before he made his
purchases.

The result was that he was cleaned out of
every dollar he had with him, and not able to
get what things he wanted, he was forced to
return to his mountain home, get together his
furs and skins, and return to Miner’s City to
find a market for the .

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bier-s in cheating him, and it was well for them,
that he did not; but he felt assured that he
was, cheated, even if several who felt most
friendly toward him had not told him that he‘
had been defrauded of his money by two of the
worst card sharps in the mines. ‘

“I hev time, afore ther winter sets. in, ter
git back, an' return with a leetle more dust, ’
ter git what I wants tor purohis, an’ mayhap I ’
may hev enough over tor tackle 'em fer an-
other shuflie of them keerds,” said Old G't'iuly, “
to the landlord of the Valley View Hotel. ,

“I can lend you what you want, Grizzly
Adams, until you come down from the moun-‘
tains in the spring,” said the landlord.

“I thanks yer, cap’n, but I never borrers'
anything more valuable than a chaw o’ ter.
hacky when I hes ther teeth-ache, an’ that are '
seldom, fer 1 doesn’t chaw myself as a rsg’lar
diet. ’ " ' '

“ Then, of I got kilt, an’ it are likely, bein’ j j
as I are livin’ a leetle dangersorne life,'yer- '

w’u’d lose yer money.

“ No, I goes back an’ gits what will fetch '
ther dust, an’ I has a fortiu’ in pelt, I kin
sw’ar. "

“ When I comes back, I’ll see ef them keerd '
sharps plays me for a durned old mountain
fool, an’ [’11 be back afore snow falls.” ‘

True to his word Old Grizzly was soon back
again in Miner‘s City.

He arrived by night,,and the landlord of the '
hotel gave him his old quarters, and readily
paid him a good price for the dressed skins and
furs he brought with him.

The next day he visited the stores and made 

his purchases, and, as he had expected, was
dogged by the two gamblers. - ~‘

“Now don’t yer be afeerd I’ll spend all my
dust, for I is detarmined notter, as I is confidint ‘
luck will change with me, an’ I is anxious tar “
tackle yer all fer a game tor-night. )

“It may be a leetle late, seein’ as how I’ll"
be gittin' my packs ready ter'start back, but
I’ll be that, so don’t yer fear, an’ I guess I’ll
win sut '." .

“I have no doubt of it, old friend; luck is 1‘
bound to change you know." '

“Yes, I feel a little shaky about risking a

large sum with you in a game to-night, for the ' , > I '

third time comes the turn, old pard,”ufled
the‘other. n h pk ed herd. j

‘ Wadi, you a es y enough '
ter'know, an’ I’ll be thar.” ‘ '

The two gamblers went to the Luck’s 3.0-”
treat that night, chuckling over their antid-
pated harvest of gold.

hey had chested Grinly Adams shamefully,
with marked and double cards, and though a
good player he could not guard against their
combined hand. - 1

Unable to detect them heébadt mud on,
until his money was all gone.

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Anxiously the two watched the front door,
for the appearance of their victim.

They had secured a table at one end of the
room, and up in a corner near a side, door,

only turned toward it, as a general ham and
commotion announced that something of an
important nature had happened in that direc-
tion.

With startled cries they sprung to their feet
at what they saw.

And no wonder, for Old Grizzly had sudden-
ly entered the side door, and he was by no
means alone.

His comrades were two in number, and none
other than the largest kind of grizzly bears.

One was Sampson, the other Goliath, and
they looked it.

The two gamblers would have fled in terror,
but they were truthfully “cornered,” and
dared not attempt to dash by those huge

ws.

As for Grizzly Adams, he was calm and
smiling, and said in the blandest way:

“ Pards, I hev come."

“What the devil did you bring those sav-
age brutes along for?” growled one of the

,1 gamblers.
“ Ohl they is gentle as lambs, an’ they loves
ter look on while I play keerds.
I "‘ Stan’ that, Sampson; an’ you, Goliath, jist
stan’ thar, while I take this hour cha’r, an’ hev
a nice leetle game 0’ cards with these heur
gents.”
-“ I can never play with those beasts looking
at me.” .
“I'll expect to be swallowed any minute,”
put in the 0th . I '
“Pards, yer is skittish, for them animiles
minds me prime; of yer don’t believe. it, I kin
)how yer, for of I says so, they’ll grab yer,
squeeze yer a loetle, an’ let yer go ’ithout
hurtin’ of yer.
“Shall I try ’eml"
\ ,v “No, thank you."
, “We’ll take your word for it,” said the
:' "' gamblers ,
‘ “ Then let that game go on.”

The gamblers sat down again, though in a

sullen manner, and the interested spectators

5 v.) - gazed from a distance, which merely lent en-
chantment to the scene, with Sampson and.
Goliath as the central figures in it.

enormous brutes, licking their chops appetiz-
fngly by, and looking diabolically savage.
, gambleirs covered it, and the game began.

cheating sharpers. .
0!; Grizzly said nothing but merely smiled,

upon which they did not keep their eyes, and ,

Old Grizzly took his seat, and 'just behind, .
and upon each side of his chair stood the two '
The hunter put down his pile of money, the 5

As a matter of course it was won by the ‘
1 head offered fer any 0’ the gang 0’ road agenla.

and a second and a third game ended the same
way.

Then the hunter drew out quite a large bag
of gold, and said slowly:

“In that bag are jist ther amount yer hes
won from me tor-night, an’ ther two times
afore.

“ An’ I bets it now ag’in’ ther same amount
for you to put up.

“Does yer do it?”

The eyes of the gamblers fairly glittered
with delight.

They were only too anxious to oblige the
great hunter, they said. _

The money was all placed on the table, and
then Grizzly Adams threw a fresh pack of
cards down, and said in his quiet way:

“We plays with them keerds, now, an’,
keerd sharps, we’ll know of thar are any cheat-
in’ in this heur ieetle game, an’ these two b’ar
pards 0' mine kin jedge, fer they hes hinted
tar me thet thar war blackleg biz goin’ on.

“ Now, sharps, it are my deal an’ heur
goes, an’ Goliath, you an’ Sampson keep yer
eyes skint.”

The two gamblers were fairly caught.

They dared not refuse to play, for the eye
of every man in the room was upon them.

With honest cards they might win; but it
was better even to lose the money than back
down now.

In fact they could see by the face of Old
Grizzly that he would force them to play.

Had he been alone, they would have picked
a quarrel with him and then tried conclusions
with him. . —

But, with those fierce beasts staring them in
the face, it was not to be thought of.

One glanced at the other, and a significant
look passed between them.

Then one spoke, and in an injured tone:

“You seem to doubt us, old man; but we
forgive you, as it is hard to lose your money.

" But try again, and luck might change this
time.” v
, “Yes, try again, old par " put in the
1 other.

“That is jist what I sed we was ter do, so
‘ heur goes.”

i Quietly Old Grizzly dealt the cards, and,
after a close game he ended the winner.

He raked the money into his bag. and at-
tached it to his belt.

“ What, hain’t yer going to give us another
chance, old man?” cried one of the pair.

“Yes, den’t be mean, but let us have an-
‘ other game,” said the other.

“ That are jist what I intends ler do, but it
2 won‘t be adzaotly a game 0’ keerds.
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he gived me ther names 0’ two more. ’

“ Thor names were Ike Dunn, au’ Ben Buck,
an’ you is ther chaps — Eye ’em, b’ars.”

The men had sprung to their feet at his
words; but when he spoke to the bears, their
terrific growls had made them shrink down
again, and then they saw that 01d Grizzly
covered them with his revolvers.

A crowd of the kind of which those in the
Luck’s Retreat were composed, is always
fickle and fond of excitement, and almost in-
stantly the cry arose to string the road-agents
up to the nearest tree.

In vain they cried for mercy, no mercy was
given, and, with the one whom Old Grizzly
had captured on his way back to Miner’s City,
and who was taken from the log jail, they
were dragged to the nearest trees, and banged
without judge, jury, or loss of time.

Old Grizzly waited until the next day and
drew his reward for the capture of the road-
agents, and then, with Sampson and Goliath
loaded down with stores he had purchased, set
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‘CHAPTER XXI.
.A FIGHT IN A SNOW-STORM.
ALTHOUGH Old Grizzly Adams had been
found to be a most dangerous person to deal
with, there was not wanting, in a wild com-
munity such as Miner’s City boasted, men who
would take any risk to gain money, or revenge,
the two ruling motives that seemed to govern

The road-agents had been committing many
depredations of late upon the stage lines, and
travelers going alone, or in squads, had been
robbed and killed in many cases, and It was _
surmised that the outlaws dwelt in, or around
Miner's City. _

Certain it was that they always went masked
and those whom 01d Grizzly and his Boy Pard
had unearthed, had proven to be miners from
that vicinity, and whom few suspected as ‘
being other than idlers and gamblers.

With his last blow at the road-agents, Griz-
zly Adams became a marked man among those I
that remained, and there was a plot entered;
into at once to avenge their comrades and at
the same time make a rich haul of money, for ,
they knew 9 had a. good supply, realized from
his furs, we back from the two gamblers he
had played with that night at Luck‘s Retreat, ,
and whidh would be paid him by the Stage
Manager the following morning, as a reward ‘
for the road-agents he had captured. _ l

The members of the outlaw hand then In
Miner’s City at once collected together and held
a secret council, and it was decided that the
old hunter must die.

Old Grizzly Adams. the Bear Tamer. ‘ Y Q?

Out of the number, three of the most des-
perate men were selected to do the work.

They were cruel wretches, brave as lions, in
spite of their evil lives, and as strong as giants,
while they were dead shots and desperate men
with the revolver.

Yet they dared not attack Grizzly Adams
while he was in the town, so left for the moun-
tains, armed to the teeth, to waylay him on his
way home. ‘

They knew the way he always went, but, in
case he should return by another trail, a com-
rade was to ride on and report, and then they
were to pursue him, even if they went to his
don.

Loaving 01d Grizzly waiting for his reward, ;

the three desperadoes left Miner’s City and
took up their position in a lonely defile of the
mountain. .

It was a place well suited for an ambush,
for the trail ran through a narrow defile of the
mountain, with here and there huge bowlders
in it, which had fallen from the sides of the
clifl.

The pass was about fifty feet wide, the bot-
tom sandy, and a man who went into a trap

there laid for him seemed to stand no possible ‘

chance of escape.

In waylayiug Old Grizzly theyoullaws had
not forgotten that he was not alone, but had
with him two most dangerous companions in
the shape of the bears. ,

How hard it was to kill a grizzly they well
knew; but they had provided themselves with
rifles of large bore, and as the man and his
savage pets came along, from their place be«
hind the rocks each one of the outlaws was to

‘ find a target, two at the bears, the third at the ,
hunter. '

It was late in the afternoon when Old Gris!
zly and his bears came along and reached the.
pass.

had commenced to snow, and the hunter knew
the danger of being caught in a storm in the
mountains far from shelter. , V '
Presently over the rocks peeped three rifle
barrels, but the quick eye of Old Grizzly

caught sight of them, as did the instinct of the .

hears tell them that danger was near.
Down dropped the hunter to the ground, and
the bullet whizzed over his head. - ‘
A second rifle snapped, failing to go 03, and
the third bullet alone found its mark; but,

slightly disconcerted by the failure of his com- . '

rades, the outlaw fired badly, and the bullet
merely out through the fleshy part or the neck
of Sampson. .

Then, with a wild 3911, Old Grizzly arose",

and with his knife severing the girths that held ‘

the packs on the bears, called out:
“ Come, b’ars, thar are mischief brewin’, on’
we must find it out.”

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Completely nonplnsed by their failure to
hill at the first fire, the outlaws almost lost
their nerve.

But where they had come to kill,thoy would
not back down then, when they saw that the
tables were turned sufficiently to make both
sides equal, for they still held the rocks, and
they opened heavily with their revolvers, hav-
ing thrown aside their rifles.

Like very demons Old Grily and his bears
rushed to the attack, receiving the fire of their
toes, hurt badly, and yet pressing on until the
ambuscade was reached and carried.

The outlaws then saw that theirs was the
greatest danger, and with a parting volley
turned to fly.

But down, dropped one of the cut-throats
under a blow of Sampson’s paw, and throwing
himself upon a. second, Old Grizzly drove'his
knife in his heart.

The third outlaw had thus far managed to
escape the clutches of Goliath, and reaching a
rock, could have gained rapidly by scrambling
up the steep side of the cliff.

But a shot from the hunter broke his arm,
and he fell back upon the rock, yet revengeful
he fired a last time, and it struck 01d Grizzly in
the head, and he dropped like a dead man in
his tracks, just as Goliath dragged the now
shrieking wretch back into the canyon.

It was fortunate for Grizzly Adams that the
bullet fired by the last of the three outlaws
had not struck him more squarely in the head,

' tor his death would have been certain.

' As it was it had glanced on his hard skull
and stunned him, then cut its way along the
scalp.

‘ It was a long time, however, before he
recovered consciousness, and then he found the
snow falling heavily, and that it was growing
dark.

Strong breasted as he was he grew faint at
the sight that presented itself, for the mangled

‘ bodies of the three outlaws lay near, and the
snow was crimsoned with their blood.

“ Ther b’ars hev eat ’em up, or I are a
dreamin’.

“Yes, an’ thar they sit holdin’ a powwow
over' me, ter see of I were dead, that they
snout see of my meat were dif’rent from other
folks’s.

“ Waal, this are a pickle an’ no mistake.

“ I are wounded in ther head, an’ as bloody
as a stack pig; but thet wound hain’t danger-
some.

“Thar are another beer in my arm thet
hurts a leetle, an’ this one in my side I hopes
hain’t gone ter in.

"Thor leg wound are goin’ to pester me,
thet are a fact.

“ Was), ther storm hev set in an’ I far from
home. ' -

“ hit I were alone I w’u’d Jist lay down lter

 

die; but as my b’ar pards is with me, I'll try
an’ make ther den.”

50 saying, he arose with pain and difficulty,
collected his arms and those of the outlaws,
and got his packs and strapped them on the
grizzlies again.

Then be tied his wounds up as well as he

could, and started to walk.

But this he found was impossible, for the
wound in his leg gave him intense pain, and he
had lost enough blood to make him very weak,
while his head ached as though it would split.

“Goliath, yer hev got ter do double duty,
fer I’se got ter strap both packs on you, while
you, Sampson, hes got ter carry ther old man,
who are all broke up.”

He transferrsd the pack on Sampson to
Goliath’s back and strapped it most firmly, for
he knew it would be hard traveling.

Then he took his lariat, and mounting Samp-
son, securely bound himself on his back, for
he feared he might become too weak to hold
on.

With his robes he made himself as comforta-
ble as was possible, under the terrible circum-
stances, and then gave the word to go.

Forward the savage but faithful pets moved
through the driving storm, finding and keeping
the trail by instinct, when no human being

onld have done so in the fearful storm and
snow.

Groaning in anguish at every movement,
poor Grizzly Adams held on, though at times
he was tempted to cut himself loose, fall in the
mow and die. g

The cold froze the blood, so that his wounds
ceased to bleed; but his limbs became be~
numbed, hardy and tough as he was, and he
suflered agony untold.

Both of the bears had also been wounded;
but they were too tenacious of life to care for
the flesh wounds they had received, and they
had held bravely on, though of course suffering

in.

Co, on, through the storm and the night,-

aver mountains, down valleys, through cau-
yons, across streams swollen by the storm, went
the unerring brutes.
Now they were floundering in a snow-drift,
and then plunging into is rushing mountain
in

But through all they passed, and at last, just
as the eastern skies were growing rosy under
the approaching sun, for the cloudyhad blown
away, they passed through the chasm into the
canyon.

A large mountain lion was chained there on

, duty, in the place of Goliath, and greeted them
‘r with yelps of welcome, which brought Wild

Wolf, the lndian boy, from the cabin.
In alarm, he sprung to the side of So

as the beam dragged themselves up to the door,

and called to Old Grizzly.

    

 
        

 
 

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But. no reply came, for the old hunter lay
like one dead, strapped to the back of his in-
vorite and faithful beast

CHAPTER XXII.
run FATE or WILD wow.
11' was many a long week before Old Grizzly

Adams left his cabin, for the wounds he had:

received proved more serious than he had be-
licved, and the night of exposure that followed,
with the fearful jolting, had exaggerated the
evil.

He had been brought out of the fainting-fit

'in which the Pawnee boy had found him, to-

become delirious with fever.

But Wild Wolf devoted himself to him day
and night, and, with an Indiau’s natural knowl-
edge of medical herbs and the care of wounds,
he had played the part of a skillful surgeon
and doctor. ~

He had extracted the bullet from the side,
out the one out of the leg, and dressed them
most skillfully, after which he made healing
and reviving medicines from his collection of
herbs, roots and berries, and soon saw that Old
Grizzly was on the road to improvement.

Few men could have rallied after what the
old hunter had gone through; but his constitu
tion of iron, and the boy’s good nursing, in the
end brought him around all right. .

The wounded bears had also been cared for
most kindly by the Indian boy, and all things
went well at the den.

Slowly the winter dragged along; but when
the first approach of spring came Old Grizzly
expressed himself as good as ever.

“ Yer hev saved me, Injun,. an’ it ever I
desert yer, maygther good Lord desart'me,”
and the old hunter‘s voice trembledas he spoke,
and held out his hand to grasp that of the
brave and noble boy.

“ The White Death saved Wild Wolf from
the stake.

“The Wild Wolf loves him as a father, and

\more than his own' people. \

“ He cares not ever to leave the White
Hunter, ” said the red-skin youth.

“ And yer sha'n’t, ontil death do us part,
buy; but ag’in’ that we hev nothin’ ter say.”

The two were seated in front of the cabin,

brushing up all their weapons, rifles, revolvers,
bows and arrows, spears, and sharpening their

I knives for the hunting time.

mm.

Old Grizzly Adana. the Bear Tamar. 99

It was a balmy spring morning, the warm-
est of the season thus far, and the animals in
the canyon, soothed by its influence, were
asleep. V

The birds sung merrily in the trees, and Old
Grimly, also lulled by the influence or the
morning, became drowsy, and sunk to sleep.

He awoke with a start, as though from a
‘ troubled dream, and a little "vi-rd" fromhis
f lips,

And no wonder, for at his side sat Wild
Wolf, also asleep; but it wasthe sleep of death.

In the heart of the youth was sticking an
arrow, and it had come from the mouth of the
pass, a long way 01!, and from the clifl above
Goliath the grizzly sentinel.

“Thar are no use, ther boy is dead, m‘
death hev parted us so soon.

“ But this an a Cheyenne arrer, an’ . I
keep it tar-notch on it that Cheyennes t I
kills ter avenge that poor boy, who, et he : d,
hev a red skin, bed a heart as big as a grid!
Ru,” . _ .7 . ML 7'

CHAPTER XXIII. ,
' CONCLUSION. I

P0011 Wild Wolf was buried in the canyqn,
and Old Grizzly carved out a vwooden head-
board for the head of his grave. 7'

Into the wood he cut the following inscribe
tion: ' '

“Hana Lina ma Dom or
" WILD WOLF,
“ A PA WNE’E' BOB

“Tho' a red Injun heweresquar‘ white ,
cleanthrough.“ \,
When the trails were no longer covered
snow, Old Grizzly made atrip to Miner’s y »
and claimed his reward on the other 
road-agents, and got it. _“
Then he received a letter from young Toqn‘
send, known as Diamonds, telling him he ind
gone East in the stage with the old gentlenpn
and young, girl they had rescued from o
.I‘Ofld-Wflhd he was engaged to marry
‘maiden. ' ,
For long years after Old Grizzly Adams re- ,
mained in the Rocky Mountains; but whenjhe
had his menagerie completed he came to NW
York with his whole gang of “animiles” fid
traveled with Barnum’s circus until the damp!
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