He would fight the biggest grizzly.

"W'ich ain't just the proper place for a gun to be when yo'r hunting a grizzly," reminded Bruce.

I've seen black bears as white as snow, an' I've seen grizzlies almost as black as a black bear.

"I feel something like a young Indian warrior who's just killed his first grizzly, and means to hang the claws about his neck to prove his bravery.

I'd rather snap off pictures like that than shoot a grizzly or a bull moose.

He knew that it was down there they would find the grizzly, and he was interested in nothing else just at present.

He followed the grizzly out into the open, feeling tremendously better than last night, though his feet were still sore and his body was stiff.

"I've got more than one reason for getting that grizzly now, Bruce," he added.

It grazed the beast's grizzly back, but glancing from it mortally wounded the king, who stood within its range.

The harder you hit a grizzly the madder he gets, an' if you keep on hittin' 'im he keeps on gettin' madder, until he drops dead.

I knew a grizzly once that wasn't much bigger'n a dog, an' he was a game-killer.

"And leave our grizzly until to-morrow?" Bruce nodded.

I decided if I met a grizzly that I would not annoy him on that slope.

He overtook the grizzly at the dam.

His first work was to remove the skin of last night's invader,the huge grizzly that lay dead just outside the cavern opening.

[Footnote Q: On our return to Helena, Walter Trumbull published, in the Helena Gazette, some incidents of our trip, and from his narrative I copy the following account of our hunt for the grizzly: "Some of the party who had gone a short distance ahead to find out the best course to take the next day, soon returned and reported a grizzly and her two cubs about a quarter of a mile from camp.

The boys had spent the interim in exploring the ship and listening to Harry Harkness' tales of the ranch and the marvelous exploits of Silver Tip, the huge grizzly, who derived his name, it appeared, from a spot of white fur on his breast.

It scarcely drew blood, but for a moment it stunned the grizzly, as a man is dazed by a blow on the end of the chin.

There was no danger in the adventure, nothing difficult about it; in fact, it was far less exciting than shooting moose in the Maine woods or tracking grizzlies in the Rockies or going after tigers in India.

He became a Free Trader in the days when to become a Free Trader was worse than attacking a grizzly with cubs.

I want this grizzly, and I'm going to have him.

The members of this hunting party were all elated at the thought of bagging a fine grizzly, which seemed an easy prey.

They called it indifferently the grizzly, gray, brown, and even white bear, to distinguish it from its smaller, glossy, black-coated brother with which they were familiar in the Eastern woods.

Their swift walk changed to a dog-trot, and they swung in nearer to the slope, so that for fifteen minutes a huge knoll concealed the grizzly.

They are not sufficiently curved to enable the grizzly bear to climb trees, like the black and brown bears; and this inability on their part is often the only hope of the pursued hunter, who, if he succeeds in ascending a tree, is safe, for the time at least, from the bear's assaults.