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was busily eating grasshoppers, but he heard us 

 coming and fled at a racing gallop, giving an ex- 

 cellent exhibition of his clumsy hind legs reaching 

 out flat-footed. 



Each autumn numbers of insects and sometimes 

 bushels of grasshoppers either are blown upon the 

 ice and snow or else approach it too closely and fall 

 from having their wings chilled. Evidently the 

 grizzlies long ago learned of this food-supply, for 

 the ice-fields are regularly visited by them during 

 the autumn. Along the timber-line the grizzly feeds 

 freely upon the last of autumn's berries and the 

 last green plants. Many a grizzly goes to the 

 heights to put on fat for his long winter's sleep. 



Bear food becomes scarce as winter approaches. 

 Fruit, berries, grass, and weeds are out of season; 

 most birds and insects are gone. The bear feeds on 

 what remains — small animals which he digs out, 

 a stray stranded fish, now and then a dead bird or 

 animal carcass, the red fruit of the rose, and the 

 nuts, bark, and roots of trees and plants. I do not 

 believe the grizzly eats a special or a purgative 

 food during the few days preceding his denning up, 

 although he may do so. 



On the few occasions when I have been able to 

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