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side to side, and launch himself down hill, with the 

 same air of committing himself to a foreign ele- 

 ment that one sees in the upward glance and deep 

 breath of a man launching himself from a diving 

 board. On their return, they invariably halted for a 

 few seconds at the top of the hill, looked around, 

 occasionally shook themselves, and with their first 

 step up the familiar trail, resumed every sign of 

 their habitual caution and alertness. While on the 

 garbage-pile itself, they appear to pay scant at- 

 tention to the people gathered behind the fairly 

 distant wire fence, but even there, an eye familiar 

 with their actions would note the constant watch 

 they kept on what was going on and the hurried 

 way in which they fed ; and, fifty feet from the edge 

 of the surrounding timber, they would at the least 

 scent or sound or sight, bolt as incontinently as in 

 the farthest hills. Grizzlies are no more plentiful 

 around the Park to-day than they were twenty- 

 five years ago in the Bitter Roots, and a hundred 

 yards from the garbage-pile they are no different." 

 Apparently young bears do not inherit fear of a 

 trap, for they are easily trapped. Young bears 

 in captivity sometimes exhibit inherited instincts ; 

 they may be pleasurably excited with the scent of 



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