230 WATCHED BY WILD ANIMALS 
play nature and to youth. The mother’s tracks 
showed that she had stopped once and looked 
back. Possibly she had commanded the cubs 
to come along, but it is more than likely that she 
had turned to watch them. Though ever scout- 
ing for their safety and perhaps even now seek- 
ing a new home, yet she probably enjoyed their 
romping and with satisfaction had awaited their 
coming. 
I had gone along reading the story these 
bears had written in the snow without ever 
thinking to look back. The following morning 
I realized that this grizzly may have been fol- 
lowing me closely. 
I spent that night with a prospector from 
whom I learned many things of interest concern- 
ing this three-legged grizzly. Truly, she was 
a character. She had lived a career in the Ber- 
thoud Pass Basin. 
Only a few weeks before, so the prospector 
told me, a trapper had captured one of her cubs 
and nearly got the grizzly herself. A grizzly 
bear is one of the most curious of animals. In 
old bears this constant curiosity is supplemented 
and almost always safeguarded by extreme 
caution. But during cubhood this innate curi- 
osity often proves his misfortune before he has 
learned to be wary of man. 
The trapper, in moving camp, had set a 
