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bear nature, the situation, though most interest- 

 ing, did not appear serious to me. Meantime, 

 the bear heard us and made lively and awk- 

 ward efforts to be gone. He fled at a racing gal- 

 lop, and gave us an excellent side view of his 

 clumsy, far-outreaching lively hind legs going 

 it flatfooted. 



Deer are among the summer visitors in the 

 cool uplands, climbing a thousand feet or more 

 above the uppermost trees. With the first au- 

 tumn snow they start to descend, and they com- 

 monly winter from three to six thousand feet 

 below their summer range. There are a few 

 woodchuck colonies as high as twelve thousand 

 feet. The woodchuck, in the spring, despite 

 short legs and heavy body, gives way to wander- 

 lust, and as a change from hibernation wanders 

 afar and occasionally climbs a mountain-peak. 

 Sometimes, too, a mountain lion prevents his 

 return. The silver fox is a permanent resident 

 of these heights and ranges widely over them. 

 He catches woodchucks and ptarmigan and 

 feasts on big game that has met with accident 

 or that has been left to waste by that wild game- 



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