242 FOUR-FOOTED AMERICANS 



Avarning, sheep, range cattle, and Imntsmen ! Of all 

 the ferocious, unstopable, persistent, disagreeable beasts 

 of North America, this Bear is the chief ! Compared 

 to him the Polar Bear is a cat and the Black Bear a 

 kitten ; small wonder then that the Wise Men named 

 liim '•horribilis " /" 



'' I think you must have met a Grizzly out Avalking," 

 said Dodo, " so you can tell us about him. How big 

 was he and how did he look ? " 



'^ He looked as big as a load of liay ambling along, 

 but he measured^ after our battle was over, about nine 

 feet from nose to tail, and stood four feet high at the 

 shoulder. As he could not have changed in size dur- 

 ing an hour, it proves what I have always said, that 

 going either liunting or fishing turns human eyes into 

 magnifying glasses, making tliem see double at the very 

 least. 



" The rouQ^h hairv fur of the (Irizzlv varies so much 

 in color that hunters, judging by sight alone, often in- 

 sist that he is several kinds of bear instead of one. 

 You all know that you cannot judge by appearances 

 in studying animals ; if you did, you would call the 

 Whale a big fish, never guessing that it is just as much 

 a Mammal as a coav. 



" The Grizzly's summer coat is short, brindled brown, 

 and his winter, long, heavy, and a buffy brown, not griz- 

 zled gray as some people think. Grizzly, a Wise ]Man 

 says, means horrible, and should be spelled g-r-i-s-1-y. 

 A faded brown will be the color of those you are likely 

 to see in menageries. Tliis Bear has a heavy head, a 

 rather Avolflike face, Avith full cheek tufts of fur bush- 

 ing out Avell up to the ears, and eyes that express the 



