134 Hunting the Grisly 



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 tw r o well- 

 grown cubs. This w r as a piece of sheer bul 

 lying, 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 r ith much blustering, roar 

 ing, and growling, halted just before coming 

 to close quarters. In another instance a gen 

 tleman I once knew, a Mr. S. Carr, was 

 charged by a grisly from mere ill temper at 

 being disturbed 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 

 horseman, 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. Ap 

 parently it had been living so well, princi 

 pally on flesh, that it had become quarrel 

 some; and perhaps its not over sweet dispo- 



