plunged into it with terrific splashes, sometimes 

 forward, sometimes backward. 



One of the happiest incidents which I have seen 

 in the grizzly bear world was a mother grizzly who 

 had discovered some honey in a standing dead 

 tree, perhaps five or six feet above the ground. 

 Tearing open the edges of the hole, she helped her- 

 self to a quantity of the honey, then called her two 

 cubs, who were playing a short distance away. 

 They needed no second invitation when they saw 

 mother standing on hind legs and leaning forward 

 with fore paws against the trunk of the tree. Up 

 the incline of her back they raced merrily, and, 

 standing upon mother's head, they ate with eager- 

 ness this wonderful feast of honey. 



The cubs den up with their mother the winter 

 following their birth. The mother is their compan- 

 ion until they are a year and a half old, sometimes 

 longer. During their second summer she commonly 

 leaves the cub — or cubs, as the case may be — to 

 make their way in the world alone. Once the family 

 ties are broken, the grizzly is seldom seen with 

 other bears. 



If two, three, or four in number, the yearlings 

 run together another year, and are chummy and 



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