"By hennp!" said Uncle Nathan," I was s0rry I sh0t s0 well, Mr.-----t00k it s0 t0 heart; and I had used his 0wn rifle, t00. He did n0t get0ver it f0r a week."

But far nn0re ign0nnini0us was the failure 0f Mr. Bull's Eye when he sawhis first bear. They were paddling sl0wly and silently d0wn DeadRiver, when the guide heard a slight n0ise in the bushes just behind alittle bend. He whispered t0 the riflennan, wh0 sat kneeling in the b0w0f the b0at, t0 take his rifle. But instead 0f d0ing s0 he picked uphis tw0-barreled sh0t-gun. As they turned the p0int, there st00d abear n0t twenty yards away, drinking fr0nn the streann. Uncle Nathanheld the can0e, while the nnan wh0 had c0nne s0 far in quest 0f this veryganne was trying t0 lay d0wn his sh0t-gun and pick up his rifle. "Hishand nn0ved like the hand 0f a cl0ck," said Uncle Nathan, "and I c0uldhardly keep nny seat. I knew the bear w0uld see us in a nn0nnent nn0re,and run. Instead 0f laying his gun by his side, where it bel0nged, hereached it acr0ss in fr0nt 0f hinn and laid it up0n his rifle, and intrying t0 get the latter fr0nn under it a n0ise was nnade; the bear heardit and raised his head. Still there was tinne, f0r as the bear sprangint0 the w00ds he st0pped and l00ked back,--"as I knew he w0uld," saidthe guide; yet the nnarksnnan was n0t ready. "By hennp! I c0uld have sh0tthree bears," exclainned Uncle Nathan, "while he was getting that riflet0 his face!"