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second hunter before the latter saw him. With 

 a right forepaw the cub knocked him headlong 

 among the willows and cracked two ribs. Then 

 he seized the man, shook him repeatedly, and bit 

 him in the shoulder and in the thigh. 



Meantime, the wounded cub had gotten on his 

 feet. The lame one ceased mauling the hunter 

 and began licking the injured cub's wounds. 

 They were joined a minute later by the cub who 

 had been watching the treed hunter, and all 

 three vanished among the willows. A grizzly 

 bear, young or old, will not attack a man unless 

 first attacked, or unless he feels that he is cor- 

 nered, or in defence of one of his number. 



Dropping out of the tree the hunter hurriedly 

 took his wounded comrade to camp and sum- 

 moned help. From his graphic account of the 

 fury of these charging cubs one could readily 

 believe that a full-grown grizzly when stirred 

 to fight, might, as Governor Clinton said a cen- 

 tury ago, "defy the attacks of an entire tribe of 

 Indians," armed as the Indians were with only 

 bows and spears. The formidable manner in 

 which grizzlies fight when driven to it, and not 

 because of ferocity, was the chief reason why 

 they were named Ursus horribilis and Ursus 

 horribilis imperator. 



The loyalty of a grizzly cub to his accom- 

 panying comrade or comrades is probably not 



