Htmti7ig the Grisly. 



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pented of his freak of ferocious bravado, and declined 

 to leave the secure shelter of the jungle. 



Other attacks are of a much more explicable nature. 

 Mr. Huffman, the photographer, of Miles City, informed 

 me that once when butchering some slaughtered elk he 

 was charged twice by a she-bear and two well-grown cubs. 

 This was a piece of sheer bullying, undertaken solely with 

 the purpose of driving away the man and feasting on the 

 carcasses ; for in each charge the three bears, after 

 advancing w^ith much blustering, roaring, and growling, 

 halted just before coming to close quarters. In another 

 instance a gentleman I once knew, a Mr. S. Carr, was 

 charged by a gris4y from mere ill temper at being dis- 

 turbed at meal-time. The man was riding up a valley ; 

 and the bear was at an elk carcass, near a clump of firs. 

 As soon as it became aware of the approach of the horse- 

 man, while he was yet over a hundred yards distant, it 

 jumped on the carcass, looked at him a moment, and then 

 ran straight for him. There was no particular reason 

 why it should have charged, for it was fat and in good 

 trim, though when killed its head showed scars made by 

 the teeth of rival grislies. Apparently it had been living 

 so well, principally on flesh, that it had become quarrel- 

 some ; and perhaps its not over sweet disposition had 

 been soured by combats with others of its own kind. In 

 yet another case, a grisly charged with even less excuse. 

 An old trapper, from whom I occasionally bought fur, 

 was toiling up a mountain pass when he spied a big bear 

 sitting on his haunches on the hill-side above. The 

 trapper shouted and waved his cap ; whereupon, to his 



