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pented of his freak of ferocious bravado, and declined 

 to leave the secure shelter of the jungle. 



Other attacks are of a much more explicable nature. 

 Mr. Huffman, the photographer, of Miles City, informed 

 me that once when butchering some slaughtered elk he 

 was charged twice by a she-bear and two well-grown cubs. 

 This was a piece of sheer bullying, undertaken solely with 

 the purpose of driving away the man and feasting on the 

 carcasses ; for in each charge the three bears, after 

 advancing with much blustering, roaring, and growling, 

 halted just before coming to close quarters. In another 

 instance a gentleman I once knew, a Mr. S. Carr, was 

 charged by a grisly from mere ill temper at being dis- 

 turbed at meal-time. The man was riding up a valley ; 

 and the bear was at an elk carcass, near a clump of firs. 

 As soon as it became aware of the approach of the horse- 

 man, while he was yet over a hundred yards distant, it 

 jumped on the carcass, looked at him a moment, and then 

 ran straight for him. There was no particular reason 

 why it should have charged, for it was fat and in good 

 trim, though when killed its head showed . scars made by 

 the teeth of rival grislies. Apparently it had been living 

 so well, principally on flesh, that it had become quarrel- 

 some ; and perhaps its not over sweet disposition had 

 been soured by combats with others of its own kind. In 

 yet another case, a grisly charged with even less excuse. 

 An old trapper, from whom I occasionally bought fur, 

 was toiling up a mountain pass when he spied a big bear 

 sitting on his haunches on the hill-side above. The 

 trapper shouted and waved his cap ; whereupon, to his 



