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smelled it. Rearing up instantly, he looked intently 

 toward the mountain-top where I was hidden. 

 After two or three seconds of thought he turned 

 and ran. Evidently the stone had carried my scent 

 to him. It was useless to follow him in the night. 



The next morning I left camp and followed Old 

 Timberline's trail through the woods. He had run 

 for nearly ten miles almost straight south until 

 coming to a small stream. Then for some distance 

 he concealed, involved, and confused his trail with 

 a cleverness that I have never seen equaled. Most 

 animals realize that they leave a scent which en- 

 ables other animals to follow them, but the grizzly 

 is the only animal that I know who appears to be 

 fully aware that he is leaving telltale tracks. He 

 will make unthought-of turns and doublings to 

 walk where his tracks will not show, and also tram- 

 ples about to leave a confusion of tracks where 

 they do show. 



Arriving at the stream, the bear crossed on a 

 fallen log and from the end of this leaped into a 

 bushy growth beyond. I made a detour, thinking to 

 find his tracks on the other side of the bushes, and 

 I threw stones into the bushes, not caring to go 

 into them. Both tracks and grizzly seemed to have 



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