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best place for Bears. I should go to the gar- 

 bage-heap, a quarter-mile off in the forest. 

 There, they said, I surely could see as many I 

 Bears as I wished (which was absurd of them). J 



Early the next morning I went to this Bears' ^ 

 Banqueting Hall in the pines, and hid in the 

 nearest bushes. 



Before very long a large Blackbear came * 

 quietly out of the woods to the pile, and began 

 turning over the garbage and feeding. He was 

 very nervous, sitting up and looking about at 

 each slight sound, or running away a few yards 

 when startled by some trifle. At length he 

 cocked his ears and galloped off into the pines, 

 as another Blackbear appeared. He also be- 

 haved in the same timid manner, and at last ran 

 away when I shook the bushes in trying to get 

 a better view. 



At the outset I myself had been very ner- 

 vous, for of course no man is allowed to carry 

 weapons in the Park ; but the timidity of these 

 Bears reassured me, and thenceforth I forgot 

 everything in the interest of seeing the great, 

 shaggy creatures in their home life. 



Soon I realized I could not get the close in- 

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