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THE ADVENTURES OF
horses a chance to recruit, as they have had but poor
grazing for the last forty-eight hours.
We had been in camp but a little while, when one
of the boys found a "bee-tree," which we cut down,
and took from it at least five gallons of honey.
In the evening I went out hunting, but saw no game
to shoot at. On my way back to camp I stopped to
rest for a few minuets in a little caiion that lay between
two rocky hills, covered with thick chaparral.
After a while, my attention was attracted by a noise in
the bushes, and, looking around, I saw a large bear
coming directly toward me. I sat perfectly still, and
he did not notice me, but came slowly along, now and
then stopping to turn over a stick or a rock, in search,
I suppose, of insects. When within twenty feet of me,
I took sight of his fore-shoulder and fired, and he fell
dead in his tracks. This was my first bear. He was
very fat, and would have weighed, I suppose, three
hundred pounds. I went back to camp, which was not
more than half a mile off, and, returning with two of
the men to assist me, we butchered him, and, packing
the meat on a horse, we soon had some of it roasting
before our fires. What a feast we had that night on
"bear-meat and honey !" If the mess of pottage that
Esau sold his birthright for, was as good as bear-meat
and honey, and he had a good appetite, I believe the
poor fellow was excusable.
In the night we saw a long line of light to the westward
of us, and supposed the Indians had fired the
prairie. The night was pleasant and warm.
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Duval, John C. The adventures of Big-Foot Wallace, the Texas ranger and hunter, book, 1870; [Macon, Ga.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5831/m1/28/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .