ff Oh, Ranger!" 



"Oh, Ranger, can I take your picture with a bear ?" 

 "Just a minute, ma'am, until I show this gentleman where to go 

 fishing." 



"Where's a bear, now?" 



"Well, ma'am, there was one in these woods an hour ago. Maybe 

 we can find him." 



Five minutes for the purpose of finding a wild bear. 

 "Oh, Ranger, that's a lovely bear ! Stand closer to him, won't you ? 



Would you mind putting your arm around 

 him ? It would make a peachy shot. We'd 

 just love it." 



"Sorry, ma'am, but it's against regu 

 lations to hug the bears." 



"Oh, pshaw! Why do they have such 

 foolish regulations? Well, just pretend to 

 be feeding him something." 



Knowing the ways of bears, the ranger 

 declined to "pretend." He produced some 

 molasses chews and actually fed them to 

 the bear. It is dangerous business to try to 

 fool a bear about food. 

 Click! Click! Click! 

 Another ranger was immortalized in 

 picture, for the ninetieth time that day. 



"It's all in the day's work," explained the ranger. 

 "What else do you do?" 



"Well, show folks where to camp, and how to keep on the right road, 

 and answer questions, and see that people don't tease the animals, and 

 keep things orderly, and put out forest fires, and give lectures on Nature, 

 and rescue Dudes in danger, and 'most anything anybody wants done 

 around here." 



"All in a day's work." That whimsical line was written at the top of 

 a report turned in one day by Ranger John Wegner of Yosemite, which 

 read as follows : 



"I got phone orders at Tuolumne Meadows to pack up and come in 

 over Sunrise Trail. Started at sunrise. Everything haywire, including 

 cranky pack horse which kept getting off trail. Phoned in at Vernal 

 Falls station. Ordered to hurry down, help catch two auto thieves 

 which broke jail just after breakfast. Assigned to guard Coulterville 



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