Photo by George Sliiras, 3rd 



BIG BULL ELK WALKS HI:aD FIRST INTO FLASHLIGHT STRING 



Here the camera and flashlight machine faced the opening between the stake and the tree on 

 the right. The big bull probably caught the string in his antlers. 



shadow, and in the descent his body had 

 struck the string running from the flash- 

 light to the bait. When the explosion 

 occurred his head and shoulders must 

 have been within the radius of the flame 

 and fumes. 



"Is it, therefore, any wonder that he 

 was surprised at the demonstration? 

 Possibly in his cubhood days he had be- 

 come aware of the danger of putting his 

 feet in the boiling geyser springs, and 

 possibly he had some sad experiences 

 sniffing in vent holes filled with sulphur- 

 ous steam, but I doubt if he had ever 

 dreamed of anything that equaled this." 



A week later the negative was care- 

 fully developed, though certain to be a 

 failure from the close proximity of the 

 bear and the heavy charge. The repro- 

 duction of this scene appears on page 829. 



While the flash failed photographic- 

 ally, it was quite a success as a burglar- 

 alarm, and no one need fear of any camp 

 ever being invaded again by the singed 

 grizzly of the Upper Yellowstone. 



SECOND AND Third trips on the upper 



YELLOWSTONE 



On the 30th of August, 1909, smoke 

 curled from our fire at the camp site 

 made memorable by the robber bear of 

 the previous year. Guide Farrell was 

 then in Alaska, and his local successor 

 viewed with interest the stricken poplar, 

 picking up a bunch of grizzled hair still 

 adhering to the bark. It may be here ob- 

 served that on this visit not a bear was 

 seen, and only one at a distance the fol- 

 lowing year. Yet daily dozens of brown, 

 black, and grizzly bears grow fat and in- 



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