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ered a chipmunk's burrow. By the time he had 

 secured all the mice and chipmunks he had torn up 

 several square yards of sod. The place had the ap- 

 pearance of having been rooted up by hogs. In this 

 fresh earth the surrounding trees sowed trium- 

 phant seeds, and here a cluster of spruces grew 

 where grass had long held sway. 



A grizzly seems never too busy or too hungry to 

 stop and look around. "Safety First" appears to be 

 more on his mind than eating. I have seen a grizzly 

 pause from his earth-digging after roots to stop, 

 look, and listen, and I have watched one stop his 

 more than eager digging after marmots to scent the 

 air in his scout for an enemy. And then again I 

 have repeatedly seen him look up from his feast 

 of smelly sirloin to make certain that he was not 

 surprised by man. 



While I was watching a flock of mountain sheep 

 feeding down a slope just above the timber-line, a 

 grizzly appeared on the scene. He came slowly up- 

 ward from the woods. Unless the sheep or the bear 

 changed course there must be a meeting. But the 

 sheep continued to feed downward and the grizzly 

 to walk up. Suddenly the bear stopped and began 

 digging — digging evidently for a chipmunk. A 



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