the bottom of the can with a stone until the fish 

 dropped out. 



In a zoo one day, a piece of hard- tack that a 

 grizzly bear wanted fell into the hands of a black 

 bear. The black bear dipped the hard-tack in the 

 water and then started to take a bite. Evidently it 

 was too hard. He put it in the water again, and 

 while it soaked gave his attention to something else. 

 While the black bear was not looking, the grizzly, 

 standing on the farther edge of the pool, stirred the 

 water with a fore paw and started the hard-tack to- 

 ward him on the waves. The instant the first wave 

 touched the black bear he looked around, grabbed 

 the precious hard-tack, which was rapidly floating 

 away, and, pushing it to the bottom of the pool, put 

 one hind foot upon it. How very like the mental 

 processes of human beings! 



One day in North Park, Colorado, I came upon 

 the carcass of a cow that wolves had recently 

 killed. It lay in a grassy opening surrounded by 

 willow clumps. Knowing that bears were about, I 

 climbed into the substantial top of a stocky pine 

 near by, hoping that one would come to feast. A 

 grizzly came at sundown. 



When about one hundred feet from the carcass 

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