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make out to handle the business alone; but I was anxious 

 to use two cameras, and thus not only double the chances 

 of results by covering two trails, but make better use of 

 the time before my presence made the animals suspicious 

 and induced them to abandon for a time their accustomed 

 lines of travel. I was therefore anxious to have the help 

 of an interested and intelligent companion. 



This want, however, was not easy to supply; and as 

 an impatient, or a careless, or even a timid, assistant in 

 this kind of work is far worse than none, I had little real 

 idea of trying the experiment. I happened, though, in the 

 interval between my two expeditions, to meet Mr. J. B. 

 Kerfoot of New York, an amateur photographer of ex- 

 perience and a lover of life in the open; and as he seemed 

 vastly interested in the casual accounts I gave him of my 

 experiments and made some good suggestions in regard 

 to the disposal of apparatus, etc., I finally proposed that 

 he join me in my projected trip, and he fell in with the 

 suggestion with enthusiasm. 



At this time Mr. Kerfoot did not have so much as a 

 bowing acquaintance with grizzlies, and his ideas about 

 them would, I think, have pretty fairly summed up the 

 misinformation current in the popular mind. But these 

 facts did not bother me, and I may take this occasion to 

 say that he proved to be a quick student and a resourceful 

 and most helpful ally. He was not, however, able to join 

 me until the latter part of July. 



Meanwhile, early in that month, our party reached the 

 canon, and I spent the first evening of our stay watching 

 the same trails and the same little parklike bottom where 

 two years before I had seen so many bears. At that time 



