big dog. Usually she went only two or three miles 

 and then returned promptly home, but occasion- 

 ally she lingered. One day, during her third sum- 

 mer at the mill, she followed the teamster as usual 

 but did not return until in the night. After this she 

 made an occasional excursion into the woods alone, 

 sometimes being gone a day or two. One day, after 

 an unusually long absence, she came back accom- 

 panied by another young grizzly. 



Tracks in the dust showed that the stranger had 

 hesitated to approach the mill. Within two or three 

 hundred yards of it he had reared up, alert, as 

 though he had scented or heard something alarm- 

 ing. Here and there in the road Miss Grizzly had 

 evidently turned back to reassure him. Both finally 

 came within a short distance of the mill, when at 

 the appearance of one of the men the strange bear 

 turned and fled. 



The first winter Miss Grizzly did not offer to 

 hibernate. She was fed regularly, and the men 

 never thought of encouraging her to den up. But 

 the second winter she slept three months. About 

 the first of December she dug a den back into the 

 side of the big sawdust pile and crawled in. Two or 

 three times during the winter the men wakened 



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