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cent Lake, near the south boundary of the Park. 

 He said the more he knew about bears, the more 

 he respected them and the less he feared them. 

 But at the same time he grew more and more 

 cautious, and never fired until he had every ad- 

 vantage, no matter how long he had to wait and 

 how far he had to go before he got the bear just 

 right as to the direction of the wind, the dis- 

 tance, and the way of escape in case of accident ; 

 making allowance also for the character of the 

 animal, old or young, cinnamon or grizzly. For 

 old grizzlies, he said, he had no use whatever, 

 and he was mighty careful to avoid their ac- 

 quaintance. He wanted to kill an even hundred ; 

 then he was going to confine himself to safer 

 game. There was not much money in bears, 

 anyhow, and a round hundred was enough for 

 glory. 



I have not seen or heard of him lately, and do 

 not know how his bloody count stands. On my 

 excursions, I occasionally passed his cabin. It 

 was full of meat and skins hung in bundles from 

 the rafters, and the ground about it was strewn 

 with bones and hair, — infinitely less tidy than 

 a bear's den. He went as hunter and guide 

 with a geological survey party for a year or two, 

 and was very proud of the scientific knowledge 

 he picked up. His admiring fellow mountain- 

 eers, he said, gave him credit for knowing not 

 only the botanical names of all the trees and 



