RUSTLINGS IN THE ROCKIES. 47 



tenderly alongside of the elk, and Huffman leveled his 

 camera on them again amid the plaudits of the admiring 

 multitude. 



I have heard a great many stories of bears attacking 

 persons without having first been attacked or hurt themselves, 

 but never believed them. I have always considered them 

 " bear stories," and have allowed them to pass in at one ear 

 and out at the other. But the experience of that afternoon 

 banished all skepticism from my mind on that topic. I am 

 prepared to believe implicity hereafter that a grizzly will 

 fight for fresh meat, and shall in the future govern myself 

 accordingly. 



Many of my friends have expressed surprise at our being 

 able to check them by rushing at them and without coming 

 into actual contact with them. We hardly expected to be 

 able to do so ourselves, and could only account for it by 

 calling to mind instances in which we have seen a ferocious, 

 savage dog rush at a man with the intention of tearing him to 

 pieces, and have seen him quell and turn away under the 

 influence of a stern and defiant demeanor assumed by his 

 intended victim. 



Our assailants were not frightened, understand, any more 

 than was the savage dog, but they walked slowly and reluc- 

 tantly away, in each case frequently looking back over their 

 shoulders and showing us their ugly teeth. If we had 

 attempted flight instead of standing our ground we would 

 undoubtedly have furnished the cold meat for a grizzly pic- 

 nic. 



Mike says he don't want to run any more grizzlies unless 

 they are muzzled and hobbled. He says he likes to see a dog 

 so well trained that he will come promptly to heel when 

 bidden, but he don't care to find another she "bar" so 

 blamed fresh that she will insist on coining to heel without 



