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miner’s cabin, in which the cub was chained. 
Here she charged one of the dogs so furiously 
that he literally leaped through the window 
into the cabin. The other dogs set up a great 
to-do and the three-legged bear made off into 
the woods. As soon as her leg healed she ap- 
parently left Berthoud Pass Basin on the trail. 
which I had discovered, and set off like a wide- 
awake, courageous pioneer to find a new home 
in a more desirable region. 
A miner came to the prospector’s cabin before 
I had left the next morning and told the story 
of her attempted rescue of the cub during the 
preceding night. She had left her two cubs in a 
safe place and evidently returned to rescue her 
third trapped cub. She went to the miner’s 
cabin where the captured cub had been kept. 
The dogs gave alarm at her presence and the 
miner going out fired two shots. She escaped 
untouched and straightway started back to the 
other cubs. 
This so interested me that I decided to trail 
her from the basin. After following her fresh 
trail for about three miles this united with the 
trail she had made in leaving the basin—the trail 
which I had back-tracked the day before. 
Travelling about ten miles, beyond where I had 
first seen the trail the day before, I came to 
a cave-like place high up on the side of Echo 
