carcass. After feasting for a few minutes he 

 rose and snarled. Then, sniffing along my trail 

 a few yards, he stopped to mutter a few growl- 

 ing threats and returned to the feast. 



After eating contentedly and to his satisfac- 

 tion, he moved round the carcass, raking and 

 scraping grass and trash on it. Then, pausing for 

 a minute or two in apparently peaceful contem- 

 plation, he doubled back on the trail over which 

 he had come and faded into the twilight. 



Alertness and brain-power are characteristics 

 of the grizzly bear. He is eternally vigilant. 

 He has the genius for taking pains. He is watch- 

 ful even in seclusion; and when he is traveling 

 his amazingly developed senses appear never 

 to rest, but are constantly on scout and sentinel 

 duty, — except on rare occasions when he is 

 temporarily hypnotized by curiosity. I believe 

 his intelligence to be greater than that of the 

 dog, the horse, or the elephant. Apparently he 

 assumes that some one is ever stealthily in pur- 

 suit. 



In repeatedly following the grizzly with pho- 

 tographic intentions I was almost invariably 



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