178 The Grizzly Bear 



while Kerfoot placed his apparatus at the intersection of 

 two more travelled trails. 



We found that while the same bears were to be met 

 with as earlier in the season, they were, while fatter and 

 sleeker of coat, more cautious than before, and it was all 

 but impossible to so place and hide our apparatus that 

 they would not detect it. 



This first night I secured the two pictures that I have 

 called "Grizzlies Feeding" and "A Grizzly Walking Out 

 of the Woods"; but it turned out that Kerfoot had had a 

 disheartening time of it, and, while many bears had come 

 his way, a change in the direction of the wind about sun- 

 set had wafted the scent of his apparatus up the trail and 

 warned the approaching animals of his presence. And 

 for several nights thereafter we had little success. 



Kerfoot by this time had become both enthusiastic and 

 expert, and, as the weather was fine, the moon at the full, 

 and our last days slipping away, we stayed late in our 

 trees and did not give up till the bears themselves retired. 

 We sometimes worked as much as a mile apart and, to the 

 best of our skill and ability, covered the whole range. 

 But though we had to make our way home through the 

 dense forest that we knew contained many large grizzlies, 

 none offered to molest us as long as we were moving 

 openly and with some noise through the woods. 



One evening, however, I had set my camera beside a 

 well-worn trail that ran along the marshy bottom of a 

 valley, and I had led the string to a big tree well up the 

 steep hillside, whose three trunks offered me an ideal 

 screen and peep-hole. I was working on the ground this 

 night, and just back of me and my tree there ran a faint 



