Y'mSt door, looked out at the bub- 

 : jf blirig geysers, then quietly took 

 /' his departure. At Norris I found 

 ■/'" the soldiers alternately swearing be- 

 cause bears, had looted their tobacco 

 and scattered it over the ground, 

 and laughing at "Larry the lunch- 

 stand man." This talkative Irishman 



thought he could protect his meathouse 

 from bruin by erecting scarecrows 

 at the 4 corners of the house, 

 but when night came on the bsars 

 pulled the stuffed men to pieces. 

 Bears, like dogs, have keen noses, 

 and a thing must smell like a man before 

 a bear will think it a man. 



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A BABY ELK IN YELLOWSTONE PARK. 



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