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ened off should he see us." He answered, " No, he will 

 not be frightened in the least," and continued to con- 

 verse with us in a loud voice. We were then standing in 

 the open close by a swill heap and the bear was coming 

 toward us, there being no timber intervening. We did 

 not move, but continued talking. The bear came up to 

 us without hesitation, diverging slightly from his direct 

 route to the swill heap so as to approach nearer to where 

 we were. He surveyed us leisurely, with his nose in the 

 air, got our scent, and, seeming content that we were 

 only harmless human beings, turned slowly away and 

 went to the refuse, where he proceeded to make a meal. 

 We watched him for quite a while, when a large wagon 

 passing along the road nigh to where we stood, the bear 

 stopped feeding and turned toward the hotel in the 

 direction in which the wagon was traveling. Our guide 

 exclaimed, "He has gone to visit the pig sty," and in a 

 little while we were satisfied this was so by hearing a 

 loud outcry of "b'ar, b'ar," which we afterward found 

 proceeded from a Chinaman, one of whose special duties 

 it was to keep bears out of the pig sty. 



After the departure of the black bear we retraced our 

 steps, but before getting to the hotel I suggested to one 

 of my companions, Del. Hay, that if we returned to the 

 refuse pile we might see another bear. We accordingly 

 went back on the trail to within a few yards of where we 

 stood before. When we stopped we heard, in the timber 

 near by, a great noise, as if dead pine branches were 

 being smashed, and there emerged into the open a large 

 grizzly. Although he was not quite so familiar as the 

 black bear, he showed no hesitation, but walked straight 

 toward us and the object of his visit — the swill. Before 



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