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swam hurriedly away, he looked back over his 

 shoulder with satisfaction. 



Another amusing incident also happened in the 

 Yellowstone. As the stage arrived at the Canon 

 Hotel, one of the passengers, who had been having 

 much to say concerning bears, put on his raincoat 

 and got down on all fours, proceeding to imperson- 

 ate a bear. While this demonstration was on a griz- 

 zly arrived. He made a rush at the man and chased 

 him up a tree, amid laughter and excitement. The 

 bear made no attempt to harm any one and plainly 

 enjoyed this prank merely as a prank. 



A grizzly mother in Yellowstone Park was catch- 

 ing trout for her cubs one June day of 1891, when a 

 friend and I came along. We went near to watch 

 them. Mother grizzly charged; we fled. After one 

 leap she stood still and appeared to be almost grin- 

 ning at us. We went back, she charged, and again 

 we ran, although she stopped at the end of the first 

 leap. But the third time she leaped at us we stood 

 our ground. She growled but came no nearer. Al- 

 though her threats did not appear to be in earnest, 

 we did not risk going closer; nor would I have 

 risked standing even at that distance if we had 

 been outside of the Park boundary. 



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