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queerly as though endeavoring to catch scent of 

 me, then Hstened and looked. He was not at all sure 

 of my presence, though looking in my direction. 

 Two or three days later this old bear was killed. 

 Many of his teeth were gone, and others were 

 badly worn away. His claws were extremely blunt. 

 His head and hide showed many scars — marks of 

 fights and marks from numerous bullets. 



One February, when I was spending a few days 

 with a prospector, he brought home the interesting 

 news that he had found a dead grizzly bear. The 

 bear evidently had died while hibernating. He was 

 found curled up in his den and frozen solid. He was 

 old, in poor condition, and his insides were swarm- 

 ing with vermin. I once found a fat young grizzly, 

 apparently healthy, who had the appearance of 

 having frozen to death while hibernating. The time 

 was about the middle of January. The winter to 

 date had been extremely cold, and but little snow 

 had fallen. 



I have known of other grizzlies who met strange 

 deaths, but, considering the fairly numerous grizzly 

 population at the time when I was wandering the 

 wilds, the number of bodies found is surprisingly 

 small. One of these grizzlies had perished in a forest 



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