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I went on a few steps after discovering the griz- 

 zly, and he moved to keep out of sight. I edged 

 toward a tall spruce, which I planned to climb if he 

 charged, feeling safe in the knowledge that grizzlies 

 cannot climb trees. Pausing by the spruce, I could 

 see his silver-gray fur as he peered at me from 

 behind the bowlder, and as I moved farther away 

 I heard him snapping his jaws and snarling as 

 though in anger at being outwitted. 



Just what he would have done had I walked into 

 his ambush can only be guessed. Hunters trailing 

 a wounded grizzly have been ambushed and killed. 

 But this grizzly had not even been shot at nor 

 harassed. 



Generally, when a grizzly discovers that he is 

 followed, or even if he only thinks himself fol- 

 lowed, he at once hurries off to some other part of 

 his territory, as this one did after I rolled the stone. 

 But Old Timberline on finding himself followed 

 slipped round to follow me. Often a grizzly, if he 

 feels he is not yet seen, — that his move is unsus- 

 pected, — will slip round to follow those who are 

 trailing him. But in no other case that I know of has 

 a bear lingered after he realized that he was seen. 

 After Old Timberline discovered that I had circled 



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