2 3 o WATCHED BY WILD ANIMALS 



play nature and to youth. The mother's tracks 

 showed that she had stopped once and looked 

 back. Possibly she had commanded the cubs- 

 to come along, but it is more than likely that she 

 had turned to watch them. Though ever scout- 

 ing for their safety and perhaps even now seek- 

 ing a new home, yet she probably enjoyed their 

 romping and with satisfaction had awaited their 

 coming. 



I had gone along reading the story these 

 bears had written in the snow without ever 

 thinking to look back. The following morning 

 I realized that this grizzly may have been fol- 

 lowing me closely. 



I spent that night with a prospector from 

 whom I learned many things of interest concern- 

 ing this three-legged grizzly. Truly, she was 

 a character. She had lived a career in the Ber- 

 thoud Pass Basin. 



Only a few weeks before, so the prospector 

 told me, a trapper had captured one of her cubs 

 and nearly got the grizzly herself. A grizzly 

 bear is one of the most curious of animals. In 

 old bears this constant curiosity is supplemented 

 and almost always safeguarded by extreme 

 caution. But during cubhood this innate curi- 

 osity often proves his misfortune before he has 

 learned to be wary of man. 



The trapper, in moving camp, had set a 



