228 The Grizzly Bear 



on the grass near the snow banks, neither one paying the 

 slightest attention to the other. I have also, in this same 

 locality, frequently seen Rocky Mountain goats feeding 

 in the same slide with the grizzlies, and have never seen 

 the least evidence of a desire on the bear's part to molest 

 the goats, or of a tendency on the goat's part to fear the 

 bear. Again, years ago in the Clearwater country, in 

 Idaho, I have, with others, sat for hours watching the 

 elk and deer as they came down to the licks; and while 

 there were many grizzlies always to be seen and their tracks 

 were always plentiful, we never found that a single animal 

 had been killed by them. Had they cared, or been ac- 

 customed to prey on the elk, it would have been an easy 

 matter for them to hide behind a huge cedar and strike 

 one down. In those days there were hundreds of elk 

 around the licks at a time. 



