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tions, but he was greeted with yells and bullets. 

 Relentlessly down through the years he was pur- 

 sued. Dogs, guns, poison, and traps have swept a 

 majority of the grizzlies away. Their retreat was 

 masterly and heroic, but the odds were over- 

 whelming. 



In the midst of this terrible hunt the Yellow- 

 stone wild-life reservation was established. In- 

 stantly the grizzly understood, years before other 

 big animals did, and in its protection at once came 

 forth from hiding, eager to be friendly with man. 

 I should like to know his wonderings concerning 

 this place of refuge — why its creation, why its 

 mysterious, invisible boundary-lines, and why, out- 

 side of it, the fierce, never-ending pursuit for him 

 has still gone on, until his noble species is verging 

 on extinction. 



What, too, are his feelings over the increased 

 friendly interest in his species all over the nation? 

 How excitedly must he catch the echoes of discus- 

 sions which are telling that he has been misunder- 

 stood, that he is not a bad fellow! And surely, if 

 writing, he w^ill pause abruptly when he hears that 

 the public, and even the hunter, is making efforts 

 to have the hunt for him checked — learns that 



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