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The grizzly eagerly earns his own living; he is 

 not a loafer. Much work is done in digging out a 

 cony, a woodchuck, or some other small animal 

 from a rock-slide. In two hours' time I have known 

 him to move a mass of earth that must have 

 weighed tons, leaving an excavation large enough 

 for a private cellar. I have come upon numbers of 

 holes from which a grizzly had removed literally 

 tons of stone. In places these holes were five or six 

 feet deep. Around the edges the stones were piled 

 as though for a barricade. In some of them several 

 soldiers could have found room and excellent shel- 

 ter for ordinary defense. 



When a large stone is encountered in his digging 

 the grizzly grabs it with both fore paws, shakes 

 and tears it loose from the earth, and hurls it aside. 

 I have seen him toss huge stones over his shoulder 

 and throw larger ones forward with one paw. Griz- 

 zlies show both skill and thought in nearly every- 

 thing they do. They have strength, alert wits, and 

 clever paws, and commonly work at high speed. 

 Yet they appear deliberate in their actions and 

 work in a painstaking, careful manner. 



A grizzly I followed one day paused in a grassy 

 space to dig out mice. In reaching them he discov- 



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