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BOOK OF A HUNDRED BEARS 



Three times that morning bears crossed the 

 road ahead of us, as unconcerned as a tramp on a 

 country road. One stopped and sniffed at us till 



we were within 

 ten feet of him. 

 At a turn of the 

 road,, before we 

 reached the Pass, 

 a little band of 

 mule deer were 

 feeding. They 

 were so tame 

 that I slipped 

 from the surrey 

 to get a snap- 

 shot. The leader 

 was a magnifi- 

 cent buck, his 

 coat as glossy as 



EVENING NEAR GRAND CANON V C 1 V C t . H C 



raised his head and eyed me, while I crept within 

 ten feet of him. He was in the shade of a tree 

 and after the first shot I tried to move him out 



