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Park, even in self-defense, the lot of many a tourist 

 and cook has been rendered decidedly unhappy. 



Once, however, the worm did turn. Mr. C. J. 

 Jones, otherwise known as "Buffalo Jones," 

 decided that a certain marauding grizzly had 

 become too great a nuisance to be borne; so after 

 due preparation he roped that grizzly around one 

 of its hind legs, threw the end of the lariat over the 

 limb of a tree, and quickly suspended the bear 

 between the heavens and the earth. While the 

 enraged animal swung in that ignominious position, 

 wildly snapping and clawing at the empty air, Mr. 

 Jones vigorously belabored him with a bean-pole. 

 When the punishment had been well finished, the 

 bear was set free; and instead of pausing to rend 

 the witnesses of his humiliation, or even to punish 

 the author of it, he wildly fled for the tall timber, 

 wherein he turned over a new leaf. 



The readiness and the certainty with which wild 

 birds and mammals accept protection, and come 

 back to the old haunts and the old numbers, fur- 

 nish us with the best of all reasons for providing 

 that protection. It is within the power of the 

 American people to have our country once more 

 teeming with wild life, if the people at large elect 

 to have it so. Within reasonable limits, any partly 

 destroyed wild species can be increased and brought 

 back by giving it absolute protection from harass- 

 ment and slaughter. This does not mean, however, 

 an annual open season for thirty days, or two weeks, 



