238 WAITING IN THE WILDERNESS 



A wolf has never offered to attack me, but 

 several tame dogs have. Any animal, and 

 perhaps even a worm, will fight in defence 

 of its life, but only when it cannot run away 

 from the danger. The few cases of wild animals 

 attacking people appear to have been those of 

 animals mentally deranged. 



I have been surprised and delighted in many 

 out-of-the-way places by wild animals who were 

 not afraid of me, but who came up for a friendly 

 look, and to find out what sort of a new model 

 of an animal I might be. In a side canon of the 

 Grand Canon, a number of mountain sheep 

 who evidently had not before seen man looked 

 at me with intense, curious interest, then came 

 up to smell of me. 



In the Yellowstone Park, and in other wild- 

 life refuges, birds and animals are tame, though 

 wild. The grizzlies, except where they have 

 been teased and overfed on garbage, are not 

 even cross. And thus it is with wild life under 

 many environments; it is ever responding ever 

 doing something interesting. 



It is this understanding of the wilderness 

 and its hundreds of inhabitants that makes it 

 a wonderland; and this understanding a nature 

 guide can speedily enable others to acquire and 

 enjoy. 



The giving of most attention on each trip to 



