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rect from my hiding place towards an old female 

 grizzly who was busily engaged in helping a light, 

 almost white, cub and its dust-colored mate clean 

 up some camp refuse. Instantly the grey cub de- 

 tected my presence; rearing on its hind legs, the 

 baby Bruin sniffed the tainted air a moment and 

 then said: "I smell a man." 



OUGH oo oo. 



This startled the other cub which also stood up, 

 and after a whiff of the breeze had entered its 

 sensitive nostrils, replied: "Wee ee e" (We are 

 watched). "Oo wee ee" (Yes, its a man). 

 Now Mother Bruin arose to her feet and she was 

 very tall and closely resembled an old dry tree 

 trunk in the twilight, she was also as motionless 

 as a stump until she too caught 



THE HATED TAINT ON THE BREEZE, 



then she made some low-toned remarks to her chil- 

 dren which sounded like "Oughed oue wee 

 oo!" and they all silently disappeared. Of course 

 the reader understands that the translations of the 

 bears' language are my own, but if the words are 

 not literal, the meaning is, for no one could doubt 

 the meaning of the actions of the bears. 



IT WAS VERY, VERY INTERESTING, 



but to my dismay the bears hit the same trail that 

 I must needs follow to reach my tent where my 



