XIV 



UST as fads will for a 

 time sway human life, so 

 crazes may run through 

 all animals of a given 

 kind. This was the year 

 when a beef-eating craze seemed to 

 possess every able-bodied Grizzly of 

 the Sierras. They had long been 

 known as a root-eating, berry-picking, 

 inoffensive race when let alone, but 

 now they seemed to descend on the 

 cattle-range in a body and make their 

 diet wholly of flesh. 



