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the naturalist a cordial invitation to spend the night 

 with them. As he was a long way from his own 

 camp and night was coming on, it took but little 

 pressing to induce him to accept. 



The men gave their names as Henry Maybe and 

 Henry Geisler and they had travelled many miles in 

 following bear. They were ready to testify that a 

 bear can travel twenty or thirty miles a day without 

 stopping to rest or eat. After the usual stories of 

 hunting and adventure in the mountains the camp 

 became silent. Dyche had barely fallen asleep 

 when he was aroused by the voice of one of his com- 

 panions. 



" Henry, what is that?" came the startled whisper 

 from one roll of blankets. 



" That sounds just like that bear cub we saw at 

 Meeker, " was the reply. 



" Let's get up. Maybe we can catch it." 



Hastily scrambling from their blankets, the two 

 went into the woods in the direction of the noise. 

 Dyche had lost no bear cub and remained in bis blank- 

 ets. The men returned, wondering what it could have 

 been. They had barely become settled in their blank- 

 ets when the sound came again. They hastened to 

 the woods with the same result. They now deter- 

 mined to exercise a little ingenuity and surprise the 

 animal. One man remained in the woods while the 

 other returned to the tent. Soon the sound was heard 

 again and the watcher called out : 



" Hurry up, Henry. Here it is. It's up in a tree." 



Henry took his gun and a lantern and for a while 

 all was quiet. After an absence of several minutes 



