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worried. She was even inclined to play. While 

 standing on her hind feet she struck at a passing 

 grasshopper with her one forepaw, but she missed. 

 Instantly, while still standing, she struck play- 

 fully this way and that, wheeling entirely about 

 as she struck the last time. 



From her tracks I noticed that she had been 

 ranging over the middle and lower slopes of 

 her territory, eating elderberries and choke- 

 cherries below and kinnikinick and wintergreen 

 berries in the higher slopes. Once, when I saw 

 her rise up suddenly near me, there were elder 

 bush tops with red berries dangling from them 

 in her mouth. After a brief pause she went on 

 with her feast. Having only one forefoot, she 

 was evidently greatly handicapped in all digging 

 operations and also in the tearing to pieces of 

 logs. Bears frequently dig out mice and small 

 mammals and overturn rotten logs and rip them 

 open for the ants and grubs which they contain. 



The last year that I had news concerning the 

 Echo Mountain grizzly she was seen with two 

 young cubs on the shore of a beaver pond a few 

 miles southwest of Grand Lake. Berry pickers 

 saw her a few times on Echo Mountain and her 

 tracks were frequently seen. 



In the autumn a Grand Lake hunter went 

 out to look for the Echo Mountain grizzly. 

 He had a contempt for any man who pursued 



