242 FOUn-FOOTED AMERICANS 



warning, sheep, range cattle, and huntsmen ! Of all 

 the ferocious, unstopable, jDcrsistent, disagreeable beasts 

 of North America, this Bear is the chief ! Compared 

 to him the Polar Bear is a cat and the Black Bear a 

 kitten ; small wonder then that the Wise Men named 

 liiin ^Jiorribilis ' / " 



" I think you must have met a Grizzly out walking," 

 said Dodo, " so j'ou can tell us about him. How big 

 was he and how did he look ? " 



"He looked as big as a load of hay ambling along, 

 but he measured, after our battle was over, about nine 

 feet from nose to tail, and stood four feet high at the 

 shoulder. As he could not have changed in size dur- 

 ing an hour, it proves what I have always said, that 

 going either hunting or fishing turns human eyes into 

 magnifying glasses, making them see double at the very 

 least. 



" The rough hairy fur of the Grizzly varies so much 

 in color that hunters, judging by sight alone, often in- 

 sist that he is several kinds of bear instead of one. 

 You all know that you cannot judge by appearances 

 in studying animals ; if you did, you would call the 

 Whale a big fish, never guessing that it is just as much 

 a Mammal as a cow. 



" The Grizzly's summer coat is short, brindled brown, 

 and his winter, long, heavy, and a buffy brown, not griz- 

 zled gray as some people think. Grizzly, a Wise ^lan 

 says, means horrible, and should be spelled g-r-i-s-1-y. 

 A faded brown will be the color of those you are likely 

 to see in menageries. This Bear lias a heavy head, a 

 rather wolflike face, with full cheek tufts of fur bush- 

 ing out well up to the ears, and eyes that express the 



