<TITLE>16. Par 204-223</TITLE>L-204   Now, you just ask him. Write him a letter. I'll give you the address. He said, "Let anybody write me about it, that wants to, on any of those things. Let me tell them." And so...
And I said, "Well?" I said...
He said, "Now?"

L-205 I said, "No, no. I was closer than this, Bud. I was right up, close to him."

L-206 He said, "We're getting pretty close now. He can charge at any time."

L-207 I said, "I know it. But," I said, "Bud," I said, "it'll be all right."

L-208 He said, "Now, when you shoot a bear," said, "now, Brother Branham, you shoot him in the back. You have to break him down, 'cause he'll keep on fighting, and can't get up then."
I said, "No, according to the vision, I shot him in the heart."
He said, "I hope you didn't make no mistake on that."

L-209 I said--I said, "I didn't." I said, "I remember that." Cause, in a--in a vision, you're in--you're in one conscious, and both, as we explained it the other night. You're in two. You can't forget it. See? So there you are.

L-210   So we got in again, about--about two hundred and fifty yards. That was just the last little coulee we went over. I said, "That's just about it now. Look at him. Isn't he a beauty?"
He said, "Yeah, I guess he is."

L-211 I said, "All right, Bud. Now when I raise up from here, he's coming." I said, "You just watch."
And he said, "I'll be watching."

L-212 So I put a shell up in the barrel of the gun, you know. And we was down under this little coulee. Just as I raised up, here he come. My, my! I stopped, shot, and it just sounded like a pea-shooter hitting him. Boy, it never a bit more checked him up, than nothing. And, my, before...

L-213 You talk about speed! I never seen anything like that. He, they would outrun a horse, deer, or anything, you know, a bear can, like that. Him coming down that hill, right towards us, like that!

L-214 And now, 'fore I could get another shell in the gun, he dropped dead, about, oh, about thirty, forty yards from me, just turned end over end; took heart, lungs, and all, from him. It was a Nosler bullet, you hand-loaders know. So it--it blowed him up, and he fell over.

L-215 Bud, standing there, looked over, was real white around the mouth. He said, "Brother Branham, I didn't want him on my lap."
I said, "Neither did I."

L-216 He said, "Whew." Said, "I want to tell you, after it's over, boy. If that hadn't have been one of them visions, and I'd seen happen before, I'd have never come up here, that close to that bear, with you."

L-217   And neither one of us could budge him. He weighed around a thousand pounds, I guess, so, mammoth, big fellow. We couldn't clean him, we got... skin him. We started on down. And we said... "Brother Branham?" We picked up the horns. He said, "If them horns are exactly forty-two inches," said, "I'm just going to have a running fit."

L-218 I said, "You better have it right now, then, 'cause that's what it is."

L-219 He said, "I have never seen a--a--a... It seems to me like I'm dreaming this."

L-220 And when we got down there, and I said to--to Eddie, I said, "Now you watch. Blaine will put his hands."

L-221 Now, you remember, there was a little hand around that horn. Remember, Brother Fred, how I told you it would be?
And I said, "You watch it," to Eddie.
And so Bud said, "Wait." He got his horse over there.

L-222 And we had bear on us, you know, and those horses just tearing up everything. You know how they do when they smell a grizzly or any kind of a bear. So I--I went over there, held, trying to hold the horse, the saddle horse trying to get away.

L-223   And he went over and got his tape measure, and come walking across there, looking at me, like that. Said, "Come here, Blaine." I punched Eddie. Put it down on this. Amen. And so help me, forty-two inches, on the nose!


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