the charger and bagged a grizzly bear, the trappers remounted,

and returned to the camp.

For some time after this nothing worthy of particular

note occurred. The trapping operations went on

prosperously and without interruption from the Indians,

who seemed to have left the locality altogether. During

this period, Dick, and Crusoe, and Charlie had many

excursions together, and the silver rifle full many a time

sent death to the heart of bear, and elk, and buffalo;

while, indirectly, it sent joy to the heart of man,