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acquire the habit of eating again/' Later on these 

 Cuyahoga Falls animals are given young dandelion 

 leaves, clover, scraps from the hotel tables, berries, 

 watermelons, sweet corn, and acorns. I have no doubt 

 that this diet, so carefully approximated to the natural 

 food of the animal in its free state, has had much to do 

 with the success of the owners in inducing them to 

 breed. 



Wild white clover is another favorite dish of the 

 Black Bear, and they eat the buds of the young maple 

 shrubs and other tender green stuff. They do not, 

 however, do nearly so much digging as the grizzly. I 

 have seen acres of stony ground literally spaded up by 

 the latter in search of the bulbs of the dog-tooth violet 

 and the spring beauty. But it is only here and there, 

 where a thin layer of earth covers a smooth hillside or 

 ledge of rock and supports a meagre crop of small roots, 

 that the Black Bear will scoop these up and eat them; 

 and apart from the easy work of turning over the soft 

 swamp earth for skunk-cabbage roots they are little 

 given to such systematic labor. 



Here indeed one sees one of the most striking differ- 

 ences of habit and disposition between the Black Bear 

 and the grizzly. The grizzlies work for their food 

 like industrious men. The Black Bear will work hard 

 at any kind of mischief, but seems to hate to work 

 steadily for business purposes. The grizzly will dig 

 for hours and heap out cartloads of earth and rock to 



