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down and scuttled away up the marsh. About fifty feet 

 from where they had stood there was a large tree, and as 

 the old bear passed around this she was, for an instant, out 

 of sight, and the two cubs, that had just then turned to fol- 

 low her, stood perfectly still and appeared to be thorough- 

 ly mystified. Apparently she missed them about the same 

 moment. She jumped back, and poking her head around 

 the tree, gave two quick, short, emphatic " whoofs," and the 

 way those cubs dropped and flew to her was a caution. 

 She waited until they reached her side, and then gave each 

 one of them a sharp cuflFthat bowled it over, and then both 

 mother and cubs disappeared in the gathering darkness. 

 When I developed the plate it was not even fogged by the 

 exposure. 



For another hour or more I watched my set camera. 

 The storm had now entirely passed and the moon was 

 shining, so that it was quite light in the little glade outside 

 the timber. I saw four more grizzlies, including the three 

 that had come out the night before, but they all avoided 

 the wire. On the following evening I again tried for flash- 

 lights, and while I saw ten grizzlies, they acted in about the 

 usual way. Not one of them set oflPthe flash. Those that 

 had already had experience with the apparatus did not 

 come within a hundred yards of me, and even those that I 

 had not seen before seemed suspicious. This night I saw 

 an old she grizzly with four cubs, and although I have seen 

 quite a number of black bears with that number, this was 

 the second time that I had ever seen a grizzly with so many. 



For three nights more I tried different places along the 

 trails, but did not get another exposure. Some of them 

 came and nosed about, but most of them turned off at quite 



