IN A WILD ANIMAL REPUBLIC 



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GRIZZLY CUB IN YELLOWSTONE PARK 

 Drawn from life. Bears in background are from photographs. 



nocturnal mammals come from their subterranean 

 homes and rustle among the dry grasses or the 

 roots of the fringed gentians and Indian paint 

 brushes. Fresh from the snow fields of the moun- 

 tains, the cool night wind whispers among the 

 trees; objects near at hand become vague, and the 

 increasing gloom materializes into moving forms 

 which steal from the shadows and troop down the 

 broad trail in a cloud of dust. These apparitions 

 are no ghosts of the camp fire, but huge brutes, 

 fierce and sullen. 



