100 TRUE BEAR STORIES. 



that time, and were very numerous and 

 very powerful. They were not exactly 

 beasts then, although they were covered 

 with hair, lived in caves and had sharp 

 claws; but they walked on two feet, and 

 talked, and used clubs to fight with, in- 

 stead of their teeth and claws, as they do 

 now. 



At this time, there was a family of griz- 

 zlies living close up to the snows. The 

 mother had lately brought forth, and the 

 father was out in quest of food for the 

 young, when, as he returned with his club 

 on his shoulder and a young elk in his left 

 hand, under his arm, he saw this little 

 child, red like fire, hid under a fir-bush, 

 with her long hair trailing in the snows, 

 and shivering with fright and cold. Not 

 knowing what to make of her, he took her 

 to the old mother, who was very learned in 

 all things, and asked her what this fair and 

 frail thing was that he had found shivering 

 under a fir-bush in the snow. The old 

 mother grizzly, who had things pretty 



