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sheep went through the stream without a stop. 

 In it bears often rolled. Sometimes they used 

 the wilderness bridge the beaver dam, and 

 occasionally they splashed through the pond. 

 Coyotes, porcupine, squirrels, rabbits, and lynx 

 used the dam. A porcupine backed a lynx off 

 this into the water, the lynx threatening and spit- 

 ting. But the lynx met a rabbit near the other 

 end and the rabbit went back with the lynx. 



A grizzly was about to cross when three fun- 

 loving grizzly cubs appeared. He stood aside 

 and watched, perhaps enjoyed, their pranks in 

 the water before coming across. On the bank 

 the cubs hesitated for a moment before passing a 

 sputtering squirrel who was denouncing them 

 for youthful pranks. A few inches of the first 

 snow was on the ground. I went back along 

 the trail and examined tracks. At one point 

 a lion had come out of the woods and given the 

 cubs a scare; and still farther back they had 

 stood on hind feet one behind the other, evi- 

 dently watching a black bear go well around 

 them. 



Two flocks of bighorn mountain sheep 

 passed by in single file like two lines of proud, set 

 wooden figures. One of these flocks was down 

 from the heights to visit a far-off salt lick. The 

 other evidently was returning to its local ter- 

 ritory on the high range by a circuitous route 



