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a grizzly whose hide would just fit the space. On 

 the whole it might have been cheaper to buy the 

 Oriental rug, and much cheaper to have bought a 

 grizzly. But that is how the Grizzly Bear Com- 

 pany, Limited, came to be organized. 



I reserved a controlling interest in the stock, but 

 parted with a small block to my first department 

 head, a mountain man of British Columbia, with 

 whom I had hunted grizzlies before. The rest of 

 the staff we decided to select on the ground; and 

 the ground, after much deliberation, we decided 

 must be the far-off corner of Northwest Alaska, 

 where the largest bears in the world are found, 

 because it required a large one to fill the space 

 mapped out on the floor. We reasoned that suc- 

 cess would be most probable in a country where 

 the trees are small and the bears are large. We 

 had both hunted many countries where the trees 

 were large and the bears small. To sit down in 

 the ice water at the foot of a mountain and wait 

 for a problematical bear to appear at a problem- 

 atical spot at a problematical hour seemed to me, 

 on mature deliberation, to involve a great in- 

 dustrial waste. 



We freely listened to advice, but wisely took none 

 of it. If you begin to give way to the charm of 

 the railway folder or the licensed guide you might 



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