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October, 1919 
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to look the bar over for possible danger.s 
before the approach of the flocks. And 
it certainly looked as if such was the 
case. 
I had killed the scout, if such he was, 
on the first day so, receiving no warn- 
ing, the first flock had paid me a visit. 
The surviving birds of the flock went 
north, and there ended my shooting. On 
the second day I had missed the first 
brant, he went back, and my shooting 
ended at once. Every one has seen a 
crow on watch in the top of a tree 
while the rest of the flock fed in the 
nearby field. No doubt the brant may 
be credited with as much intelligence. 
A REMINISCENCE OF 
ROOSEVELT 
(continued from page 524 ) 
I Commissioner was interested in a trip 
I had recently made exploring Big Horn 
Canyon, about the last of our canyons 
to remain unexplored. 
The Commissioner said he had shot a 
few elk on their hunting trip, but had 
not gotten a good head in the bunch 
and had not seen a bear. 
I told him that at our camps on the 
head of the South Fork of Shoshone River 
and Buffalo Fork of Snake River, we had 
been bothered by bear. At times we 
would meet them on the trails and had 
to make a wide detour to get around 
them. 
The ground around our surveying in- 
struments (which we left on the line 
overnight) would be found well tramped 
by bear who evidently had been satis- 
fying their curiosity during the night. 
In crawling through some thick brush 
one day I surprised two bear and fright- 
ened them almost as much as myself. 
One of our horses died about a half mile 
from camp and bear visited it for sev- 
eral nights, much to the discomfort of 
the horses in camp. Roosevelt remarked 
that it was always the way on going 
hunting, if you had only gone some other 
place you would have gotten what you 
wanted. 
We had a hunter named Jim IMc- 
Laughlin in our survey party who kept 
the camp supplied with elk and mountain 
sheep. Jim said he would go on a bear 
hunt a little later in the fall when the 
bear fur would be better and he did so, 
killing eight silver tip grizzlies. 
In talking about bear, I referred to the 
! remarkable exploits of Colonel William 
I Pickett, who had a ranch at the head 
I of Grey Bull River, not far from one 
of our camps. The Colonel killed twenty- 
I six bear one season, killing all but two 
with one cartridge each. One afternoon 
he killed four bear at a certain place, 
where later the Government established 
I a post office named Fourbear. 
The Colonel was a charter member of 
the American Society of Civil Engineers 
(of which I was a member) and took a 
prominent part in the Civil War. 
The season having closed in the Park, 
the only transportation to the railroad 
at Gardner was by horseback, the Com- 
missioner regretted having to take the 
guide with him and leave his partner 
Ferguson in camp for so long a time. I 
