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behind the trees. The bears depend on scent to tell 

 them if there is anything along the shore to cat. 

 Both their trails and their daily life in Alaska con- 

 clusively show that their chief concern is to keep 

 away from and out of sight of man. 



The experience with bears in the Yellowstone 

 Park demonstrates that the grizzly is not ferocious. 

 The Park had a numerous grizzly population when 

 it was made a wild-life reservation. The people 

 who in increasing numbers visited the Park carried 

 no fire-arms and they were not molested by the 

 grizzlies. Yet grizzlies were all about. After some 

 twenty years of this friendly association of people 

 and grizzlies, a number of grizzlies, dyspeptic and 

 demoralized from eating garbage, and annoyed by 

 the teasing of thoughtless people, became cross and 

 lately even dangerous. But these bears cannot be 

 called ferocious. Eliminate the garbage-piles and 

 cease harassing the bears, and they will again be 

 friendly. 



The grizzly bear has been a golden gift of the 

 gods for the countless writers of highly colored al- 

 leged natural history. There is a type, too, of wild 

 fiction-writers of the Captain Mayne Reid class 

 whose thrilling stories of the grizzly and other wil- 



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