So they went down to the ice house where the bear was. Green said he
didn't want anybody to go in with him, because they might get hurt. He put
on Clason's hunting suit, took a carving knife in his teeth and a revolver
in his hand, and went in and looked the bear in the eye. The bear knew
Green meant business, and he began to feel around for his ticket. The
conductor advanced to within eleven feet of the bear when all at once the
animal sprang at him, growling and showing his teeth. Green's first
impulse was to pull the bell rope, and order the cuss to get out of the
ice house, but he saw the bear coming through the air towards him, and
there was not four hours to lose, so he drew the revolver, took aim at the
bear's left eye, and pulled. There was a puff of smoke, and the bear fell
lifeless at his feet. Placing the animal in his game sack, he wiped the
blood from his knife and said to some men who stood outside, their faces
ashy pale: "Always shoot bears in the left eye." The men were
pleased to see him come out alive and they shook him warmly by the hand.
The other conductors, the shooters, are jealous of Green, and they are
telling how he killed the bear by going up in the loft of the ice house
and falling on him, and one conductor says Green shot the bear with a crow
bar through a knot hole.
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