i8o WAITING IN THE WILDERNESS 



excelled in the world of animal life. Like the 

 three Swiss on the mountain heights, they stand 

 all for each other and each for all. In every 

 emergency they appear to think only for the com- 

 mon good. The intense devotion which the 

 mother shows for the cubs is in turn shown by 

 each cub to the others. 



There are numerous accounts in which grizzly 

 pets have shown all that intense loyalty to man 

 which we have ascribed only to the dog. Griz- 

 zlies have dared to die for their masters. Loy- 

 alty is a distinguished trait of the grizzly bear. 



Evidently the wounded cub speedily recov- 

 ered. Less than a month after this shooting the 

 cubs stampeded a trapper's pack horse and put 

 the trapper unceremoniously up a tree. He had 

 set a bear trap, using stale meat for bait. Inside 

 of forty-eight hours the cubs came near. They 

 had caught the scent some distance off, turned, 

 so their tracks showed, and come cautiously 

 toward the trap. They had circled it and evi- 

 dently paid more attention to the curious trap 

 than to the bait. One of the cubs had reached 

 out a paw, evidently to feel of the trap, and in 

 so doing had sprung it, catching just two toes 

 of his paw; but he was held fast. 



The next day the trapper was moving his sup- 

 plies to a permanent camp on his pack horse. 

 He was close to the trap before the horse became 



