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trail. He had confused his trail where he started 

 to circle back, so as not to be noticed, and slipped 

 in around behind me. 



But after discovering the grizzly on my trail I 

 went slowly along as though I was unaware of his 

 near presence, turning in screened places to look 

 back. He followed within three hundred feet of 

 me. When I stopped he stopped. He occasionally 

 watched me from behind bushes, a tree, or a bowl- 

 der. It gave me a strange feeling to have this big 

 beast following and watching me so closely and 

 cautiously. But I was not alarmed. 



I concluded to turn tables on him. On crossing a 

 ridge where I was out of sight, I turned to the right 

 and ran for nearly a mile. Then, circling back into 

 our old trail behind the bear, I traveled serenely 

 along, imagining that he was far ahead. I was sud- 

 denly startled to see a movement of the grizzly's 

 shadow from behind a bowlder near the trail, only 

 three hundred feet ahead. He was in ambush, wait- 

 ing for me! At the place where I left the trail to cir- 

 cle behind him, he had stopped and evidently sur- 

 mised my movements. Turning in his tracks, he 

 had come a short distance back on the trail and 

 lain down behind the bowlder to wait for me. 

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