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worried. She was even inclined to play. While 
standing on her hind feet she struck at a passing 
grasshopper with her one forepaw, but she missed. 
Instantly, while still standing, she struck play- 
fully this way and that, wheeling entirely about 
as she struck the last time. 
From her tracks I noticed that she had been 
ranging over the middle and lower slopes of 
her territory, eating elderberries and choke- 
‘cherries below and kinnikinick and wintergreen 
berries in the higher slopes. Once, when I saw 
her rise up suddenly near me, there were elder 
bush tops with red berries dangling from them 
in her mouth. After a brief pause she went on 
with her feast. Having only one forefoot, she 
was evidently greatly handicapped in all digging 
operations and also in the tearing to pieces of 
logs. Bears frequently dig out mice and small 
mammals and overturn rotten logs and rip them 
open for the ants and grubs which they contain. 
The last year that I had news concerning the 
Echo Mountain grizzly she was seen with two 
young cubs on the shore of a beaver pond a few 
miles southwest of Grand Lake. Berry pickers 
saw her a few times on Echo Mountain and her 
tracks were frequently seen. 
In the autumn a Grand Lake hunter went 
out to look for the Echo Mountain grizzly. 
He had a contempt for any man who pursued 
