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down and scuttled away up the marsh. About fifty feet 

 from where they had stood there was a large tree, and as 

 the old bear passed around this she was, for an instant, out 

 of sight, and the two cubs, that had just then turned to fol- 

 low her, stood perfectly still and appeared to be thorough- 

 ly mystified. Apparently she missed them about the same 

 moment. She jumped back, and poking her head around 

 the tree, gave two quick, short, emphatic " whoofs," and the 

 way those cubs dropped and flew to her was a caution. 

 She waited until they reached her side, and then gave each 

 one of them a sharp cuff that bowled it over, and then both 

 mother and cubs. disappeared in the gathering darkness. 

 When I developed the plate it was not even fogged by the 

 exposure. 



For another hour or more I watched my set camera. 

 The storm had now entirely passed and the moon was 

 shining, so that it was quite light in the little glade outside 

 the timber. I saw four more grizzlies, including the three 

 that had come out the night before, but they all avoided 

 the wire. On the following evening I again tried for flash- 

 lights, and while I saw ten grizzlies, they acted in about the 

 usual way. Not one of them set off the flash. Those that 

 had already had experience with the apparatus did not 

 come within a hundred yards of me, and even those that I 

 had not seen before seemed suspicious. This night I saw 

 an old she grizzly with four cubs, and although I have seen 

 quite a number of black bears with that number, this was 

 the second time that I had ever seen a grizzly with so many. 



For three nights more I tried different places along the 

 trails, but did not get another exposure. Some of them 

 came and nosed about, but most of them turned off at quite 



