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sheep went through the stream without a stop. 
In it bears often rolled. Sometimes they used 
the wilderness bridge—the beaver dam, and 
occasionally they splashed through the pond. 
Coyotes, porcupine, squirrels, rabbits, and lynx 
used the dam. A porcupine backed a lynx off 
this into the water, the lynx threatening and spit- 
ting. But the lynx met a rabbit near the other 
end and the rabbit went back with the lynx. 
A grizzly was about to cross when three fun- 
loving grizzly cubs appeared. He stood aside 
and watched, perhaps enjoyed, their pranks in 
the water before coming across. On the bank 
the cubs hesitated for a moment before passing a 
sputtering squirrel who was denouncing them 
for youthful pranks. A few inches of the first 
snow was on the ground. I went back along 
the trail and examined tracks. At one point 
a lion had come out of the woods and given the 
cubs a scare; and still farther back they had 
stood on hind feet one behind the other, evi- 
dently watching a black bear go well around 
them. 
Two flocks of bighorn mountain sheep 
passed by in single file like two lines of proud, set 
wooden figures. One of these flocks was down 
from the heights to visit a far-off salt lick. The 
other evidently was returning to its local ter- 
ritory on the high range by a circuitous route 
