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'Look out! there is a grizzly here, I shouted, and I ran my pony out on to the prairie; but the others had already dismounted. "Nageedah had just time to jump upon his pony and get out of the way, but the bear seized hold of his robe and pulled it off. Chadozee stood upon the verge of a steep bank, below which there ran a deep and swift-flowing stream.
At last he silently returned the pipe to Matogee, with whom it had begun its rounds. I was with him. It was by a very little that he saved his life. I will tell you how it happened. "I was hunting with these two men, Nageedah and Chadozee. We came to some wild cherry bushes. I began to eat of the fruit when I saw a large silver-tip crawling toward us.
"Ha, ha, ha! ha, ha, ha!" they all laughed. "When they came to the surface again they were both so eager to get to the shore that each let go, and they swam as quickly as they could to opposite sides. Chadozee could not get any further, so he clung to a stray root, still keeping a close watch of the bear, who was forced to do the same.
There they both hung, regarding each other with looks of contempt and defiance." "Ha, ha, ha! ha, ha, ha!" they all laughed again. "At last the bear swam along the edge to a lower place, and we pulled Chadozee up by means of our lariats. All this time he had been groaning so loud that we supposed he was badly torn; but when I looked for his wounds I found a mere scratch."
The bear rushed upon him so suddenly that when he took a step backward, they both fell into the creek together. It was a fall of about twice the height of a man." "Did they go out of sight?" some one inquired. "Yes, both fell headlong. In his excitement Chadozee laid hold of the bear in the water, and I never saw a bear try so hard to get away from a man as this one did."
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