OF WILD ANIMALS 141 



Keeper Fred Schlosser thought it would be safe to take 

 our official photographer, Mr. E. R. Sanborn, into the den of 

 a European brown bear mother, to get a close-up photograph 

 of her and her cubs. Schlosser felt sure that Brownie was 

 "all right," and that he could prevent any accident. 



But near the end of the work the mother bear drove her 

 cubs into their sleeping den and then made a sudden, vicious 

 and most unexpected attack upon Keeper Schlosser. She 

 rushed him, knocked him down, seized him by his thigh, bit 

 him severely, and then actually began to drag him to the door 

 of her sleeping den! (Just why she did this I cannot explain!) 



Heroically ignoring the great risk to himself, and thinking 

 of nothing but saving Schlosser, Mr. Sanborn seized the club 

 that had fallen from the keeper's hand when he fell, rushed 

 up to the enraged bear and beat her over the head so savagely 

 and so skilfully that she was glad to let go of her victim and 

 retreat into her den. Then Mr. Sanborn seized Schlosser, 

 dragged him away from the den, and stood guard over him 

 until help came. 



