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which had rolled a hundred yards below him, 

 but not otherwise the worse for his misad 

 venture; while the footprints showed that the 

 bear, after delivering the single hurried stroke 

 at the unwitting disturber of its day-dreams, 

 had run off uphill as fast as it was able. 



A she-bear with cubs is a proverbially dan 

 gerous beast; yet even under such conditions 

 different grislies act in directly opposite ways. 

 Some she-grislies, when their cubs are young, 

 but are able to follow them about, seem al 

 ways worked up to the highest pitch of anx 

 ious and jealous rage, so that they are likely 

 to attack unprovoked any intruder or even 

 passer-by. Others when threatened by the 

 hunter leave their cubs to their fate without 

 a visible qualm of any kind, and seem to 

 think only of their own safety. 



In 1882 Mr. Caspar W. Whitney, now of 

 New York, met with a very singular adven 

 ture with a she-bear and cub. He was in 

 Harvard when I was, but left it and, like a 

 good many other Harvard men of that time, 

 took to cow-punching in the West. He went 

 on a ranch in Rio Arriba County, New Mexi 

 co, and was a keen hunter, especially fond of 

 the chase of cougar, bear, and elk. One day 

 while riding a stony mountain trail he saw 



