152 (Gösta Berling's saga / Part I)

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But by and by people began to understand what
kind of a bear he was, and the reason why Gösta
Berling had not shot at him. Dreadful as it was to think
of, this was no ordinary bear! No one need think of
killing him unless he carried a silver bullet in his
gun. A bullet of mingled silver and bell metal, cast
on a Thursday night at new moon in a church tower,
without the priest or sexton or any living mortal
knowing about it, would certainly bring him down,
but such a bullet was not easy to procure.

There was one man at Ekeby,more than the others,
who was mortified at this state of things. It was,
of course, Anders Fuchs, the bear hunter. He lost
both appetite and sleep in his anger at not being
able to kill the big bear of Gurlita Cliff, till at last he
also began to understand that the bear could only
be felled by a silver bullet.

Major Anders Fuchs was not a handsome man.
He had a clumsy, heavy body and a broad, red face
with hanging pouches under his cheeks and a
many-doubled chin. His small black moustache stood as
stiff as a brush above his full lips, and his black hair
was close and thick, and rose straight up on his
head. Besides this, he was a man of few words and
a great eater. He was not a man whom women met
with sunny smiles or open arms, and he did not
waste any tender glances on them either.

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