THE GREAT GRIZZLY BEAR. 103 



together all the grizzlies at the new and 

 magnificent lodge built for the princess and 

 her children, and then sent her eldest 

 grandson to the summit of Mount Shasta 

 in a cloud, to speak to the Great Spirit 

 and tell him where he could find his long- 

 lost daughter. 



When the Great Spirit heard this, he 

 was so glad that he ran down the mountain 

 side on the south so fast and strong that 

 the snow was melted off in places, and the 

 tokens of his steps remain to this day. The 

 grizzlies went out to meet him by thous- 

 ands; and as he approached they stood 

 apart in two great lines, with their clubs 

 under their arms, and so opened a lane 

 through which he passed in great state to 

 the lodge where his daughter sat with her 

 children. 



But when he saw the children, and 

 learned how the grizzlies that he had cre- 

 ated had betrayed him into* the creation of 

 a new race, he was very wroth, and 

 frowned on the old mother Grizzly till she 



