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wonder and delight. The black bears are recklessly trustful, 

 and familiar quite to the utmost limits. The grizzlies are more 

 reserved, but they have done what the blacks have very wisely 

 not done. They have broken the truce of protection, and at- 

 tacked men on their own ground. 



Strange to say, of several attacks made upon camping 

 parties, the most serious and most nearly fatal was that of 19 17 

 upon Ned Frost, the well-known guide of Cody, Wyoming, 

 and his field companion. They were sleeping under their 

 wagon, well wrapped from the cold in heavy blankets and 

 comfortables, and it is to their bedding alone that they owe 

 their lives. They were viciously attacked by a grizzly, dragged 

 about and mauled, and Frost was seriously bitten and clawed. 

 Fortunately the bedding engaged the activities of their assailant 

 sufficiently that the two men finally escaped alive. 



How Buffalo Jones Disciplined a Bad Grizzly. The 

 most ridiculous and laughable performance ever put up with 

 a wild grizzly bear as an actor was staged by Col. C. J. ("Buf- 

 falo") Jones when he was superintendent of the wild animals of 

 the Yellowstone Park. He marked down for punshment a 

 particularly troublesome grizzly that had often raided tourists 7 

 camps at a certain spot, to steal food. Very skilfully he roped 

 that grizzly around one of his hind legs, suspended him from the 

 limb of a tree, and while the disgraced and outraged silver-tip 

 swung to and fro, bawling, cursing, snapping, snorting and 

 wildly clawing at the air, Buffalo Jones whaled it with a bean- 

 pole until he was tired. With commendable forethought Mr. 

 Jones had for that occasion provided a moving-picture camera, 

 and this film always produces roars of laughter. 



Now, here is where we guessed wrongly. We supposed that 

 whenever and wherever a well-beaten grizzly was turned loose, 

 the angry animal would attack the lynching party. But not so. 

 When Mr. Jones' chastened grizzly was turned loose, it thought 

 not of reprisals. It wildly fled to the tall timber, plunged into 

 it, and there turned over a new leaf. 



