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running on to bears. Fortunately these adven- 

 turers found no silver-tips, just cinnamons, and 

 chased them up trees and batted them with sticks, 

 and then got chased in turn and had a good time. 

 Spot — there, the story is out — will doubtless tell 

 his children how he chased a cinnamon bear up a 

 tree and whacked him on the rump with a club. 

 And his children will think, ^^ What a liar Papa is.'* 

 I have used the term '^silver-tip" once or twice. 

 I am not sure about it, but I believe the silver-tip 

 is a mere variant of the true grizzly. I believe 

 that, in colder climates, the end of each hair is a 

 silver color. The Sierra bears are the plain 

 grizzly, but most of the grizzlies that I saw in 

 the Yellowstone were silver-tips. Anyway, the 

 names are used interchangeably up there. You 

 may take your choice. I regret that I have not 

 consulted Mr. Roosevelt about it. I am a desira- 

 ble citizen, no nature fakir, and I am not anxious 

 to have a controversy with the President. I, 

 therefore, submit the statement with due caution. 



