that had been wounded by a hunter to see where he 

 went and what he did. He circled from his trail and 

 came back to it over logs and rocks, which left no 

 markings, and hid in a clump of fir trees. On seeing 

 this possible place of ambush by the trail, I turned 

 aside and climbed a pine to reconnoitre. When the 

 bear realized that I had discovered him, he made 

 off in anger. 



Round the foot of Long's Peak I followed a bear 

 through a shallow snow, hoping to overtake and 

 photograph him. Most of the snow had melted off 

 the logs and bowlders. After trailing him four or 

 five miles I came to a bowlder where he had climbed 

 up and looked around. Possibly he wished to see 

 how close I was to him; possibly he was deciding 

 just where he would carry out a plan for outwitting 

 me. At any rate, he jumped from the bowlder, 

 walked round it, traveled a short distance slowly, 

 then set off on a run, going east. After I had fol- 

 lowed his trail for more than a mile, his tracks 

 ceased in a rocky, snowless area where his foot- 

 prints did not show. 



I thought I should find his tracks in the snow on 

 the farther edge of the rocky space ; but they were 

 not there. Then, in the snow, I went entirely round 

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