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which case the cubs also may be captured. The use 

 of steel trap, deadfall, poison, spring gun, and dogs 

 should be prohibited and the sale of hides forbidden. 



Most big game has had some protection for 

 years; the grizzly has had none. He is not a bad 

 fellow, there is no just claim against him, but he 

 has paid the penalty of being misunderstood. He 

 has been classed as a menace and relentlessly pur- 

 sued as though a dangerous criminal. Men follow 

 him the year round, with guns, dogs, horses, traps, 

 and poison. He is even trailed to the hibernating- 

 den and slaughtered without any chance for his life. 



Fear of bears and prejudice against them is 

 all too often taught and developed in childhood. 

 Mothers and nurses hush children by telling them, 

 "Bears will get you if you're not good." People, 

 however, are now learning that bears are not fero- 

 cious, that they do not eat human flesh, and that in 

 the wilds the grizzly flees from man as though from 

 a pestilence. 



Mr. Pocock, in "A Man in the Open," with 

 quaint, satirical philosophy goes to the bottom of 

 the grizzly question. He says : — 



"The coarse treatment grizzlies gets from hunt- 

 ers makes them sort of bashful with any stranger. 



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