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one side. After some hours of waiting, the three two-year- 

 olds came down the side trail, but stopped before reaching 

 my wire. Two of them then turned back, but the third 

 apparently made up his mind to avoid the danger by cir- 

 cling it, and, as it happened, took the side toward the 

 camera. As he walked he kept his eyes upon the wire 

 where it crossed the trail, and thus failed to notice that 

 it extended beyond the edge of the path and still blocked 

 his progress. This fact he discovered too late by springing 

 the flash, and he was then so near the camera that his feet 

 do not show upon the plate. The picture, however, gives 

 an excellent idea of the formation of a grizzly^s head. 



While I had been watching the movements of these 

 three bears, another old fellow had come unobserved down 

 a trail to the left of my other camera, and then worked 

 back toward the main trail between that camera and 

 myself. As the first bear set off the flash and I rose from 

 my place of concealment, I was startled by a loud snort 

 just behind me, and saw a huge grizzly bolt up the trail 

 toward my second outfit. The fright of seeing me rise 

 from the ground just in front of him, together with the 

 flash and the flight of the other bears, had evidently driven 

 from his mind the remembrance of the danger that he had 

 just avoided, and it was not until he had almost reached 

 my second camera that he remembered for a moment 

 where he was. His evident dilemma was most amusing, 

 for it was clear for a second or two that he thought of 

 stopping, and then almost instantly changed his mind and 

 forged full speed ahead. 



I had stretched a good-sized wire across the trail, 

 hoping that the bears, when they saw it, would stop and 



