when he backed away down the tree and 

 shuffled off into the woods, leaving a sad 

 jvj///f/e Brofner me ss for a mother woodpecker to face 

 behind him. 



Another habit in which he has improved 

 upon Mooween is his fishing. He knows 

 how to flip fish out of water with his paw, as 

 all bears do ; but he has also learned how to 

 attract them when they are not to be found 

 on the shallows. Many times in the twilight 

 I have found Mooweesuk sitting very still on 

 a rock or gray log beside the pond or river, 

 his soft colors and his stillness making him 

 seem like part of the shore. Other natural- 

 ists and hunters have mentioned the same 

 thing, and their testimony generally agrees 

 in this : that Mooweesuk's eyes are half shut 

 at such times, and his sensitive feelers, or 

 whiskers, are playing on the surface of the 

 water. The fish below, seeing this slight 

 motion but not seeing the animal above, 

 attracted either by curiosity or, more likely, 

 by the thought of insects playing, rise to the 

 surface and are snapped out by a sweep of 

 Mooweesuk's paw. 



