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miner's cabin, in which the cub was chained. 

 Here she charged one of the dogs so furiously 

 that he literally leaped through the window 

 into the cabin. The other dogs set up a great 

 to-do and the three-legged bear made off into 

 the woods. As soon as her leg healed she ap- 

 parently left Berthoud Pass Basin on the trail 

 which I had discovered, and set off like a wide- 

 awake, courageous pioneer to find a new home 

 in a more desirable region. 



A miner came to the prospector's cabin before 

 I had left the next morning and told the story 

 of her attempted rescue of the cub during the 

 preceding night. She had left her two cubs in a 

 safe place and evidently returned to rescue her 

 third trapped cub. She went to the miner's 

 cabin where the captured cub had been kept. 

 The dogs gave alarm at her presence and the 

 miner going out fired two shots. She escaped 

 untouched and straightway started back to the 

 other cubs. 



This so interested me that I decided to trail 

 her from the basin. After following her fresh 

 trail for about three miles this united with the 

 trail she had made in leaving the basin the trail 

 which I had back-tracked the day before. 

 Travelling about ten miles, beyond where I had 

 first seen the trail the day before, I came to 

 a cave-like place high up on the side of Echo 



