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BOOK OF A HUNDRED BEARS 



to see a thousand elk in one band quietly feeding. 

 I am told that it is not uncommon to see five 

 thousand in a band in the spring and early- 

 summer. 



I have heard 

 the expression, 

 ''carpeted with 

 flowers/' many 

 times, but I never 

 saw such a car- 

 pet save here. 

 The whole slope 

 of Mt. Wash- 

 burne is literally 

 covered; so that 

 the green of the 

 grass, which is 

 abundant, is abso- 

 lutely hidden by 

 them. They count eighty varieties of wild 

 flowers in the Park, many of them rare. . There 

 were dozens that I never saw, but I recognized 

 many of the old favorites that I have known in 



A BUFFALO HEAD 



