movement had aroused him. In two seconds from 

 the time I turned he was crashing off through the 

 thicket and probably was condemning himself for 

 being so curious. 



One Sunday afternoon one of the men in a lum- 

 ber-camp rigged up a canvas hammock from the 

 remnants of an old tent and suspended it between 

 two trees. A pet grizzly who belonged at the camp 

 watched him with curious interest while he worked. 

 She observed him with still greater interest as he 

 stretched himself out in it and began reading. When 

 the man deserted the hammock, she walked up to 

 it, struck it, pushed it back and forth with fore 

 paws, and then began rather awkwardly to climb 

 into it. She had almost succeeded, when her weight 

 upon the edge caused it to tip over and spill her on 

 the ground. She leaped back surprised, then walked 

 round the hammock, eyeing it with great curiosity. 

 But the second attempt at climbing into the ham- 

 mock was successful, and she made a most comical 

 and awkward sight stretched out in it flat upon her 

 back. 



I came upon a grizzly on the heights above the 

 timber-line watching the progress of a forest fire. 

 Squatted on his haunches like a dog, he was in- 



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