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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: The Grizzly - Our Greatest Wild Animal - -Author: Enos A. Mills - -Release Date: March 8, 2013 [EBook #42277] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GRIZZLY *** - - - - -Produced by Pat McCoy, Greg Bergquist and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 42277 ***</div> <div class="figcenter" style="width: 395px;"> <img id="coverpage" src="images/cover.jpg" width="395" height="600" alt="Book cover" /> @@ -387,9 +348,9 @@ In this retreat he did not go within two miles of either of the other fellows.</p> <p>Realizing that the bear had eluded us, we slightly separated and moved -toward him. He did not wait to be cornered in a cañon. Late that day we +toward him. He did not wait to be cornered in a cañon. Late that day we fol<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span>lowed his devious tracks and discovered his movements. We learned to -our chagrin that he had doubled back in the cañon and come part way +our chagrin that he had doubled back in the cañon and come part way toward us. Then, climbing an out-thrusting ridge where he could see in all directions, he evidently had watched us when we passed up a grassy valley beneath him. After we were in the timber beyond he had descended @@ -800,14 +761,14 @@ falling snow.</p> <p>Though gentle and patient, the grizzly mother uses a limited amount of cuffing and spanking with the cubs, especially if they are in danger. -One day from far across a cañon I was watching two cubs walking along a +One day from far across a cañon I was watching two cubs walking along a wild-life trail in front of their mother, when a pack outfit appeared on -my side of the cañon. The mother and the cubs saw it, and she at once +my side of the cañon. The mother and the cubs saw it, and she at once turned up a gulch, pushing the cubs before her. But the youngsters were interested in the pack-animals and, standing still, forgot everything in their eager watching. The mother went from one to the other, pushing them forward. The instant she left one, the cub stopped and turned to -look back in eager curiosity at the strange sight across the cañon. +look back in eager curiosity at the strange sight across the cañon. Without any show of temper the mother pushed one ahead a few yards and then returned to the other and urged it forward.</p> @@ -1105,7 +1066,7 @@ Creek were other boundary-lines, while at the north stood Chief’s Head Mountain and Long’s Peak. Toward the south the territory narrowed and was not more than two miles across; in the centre it must have been nearly ten miles wide. An extensive area lay above the timber-line. -There were forests primeval, a number of cañons and streams, numerous +There were forests primeval, a number of cañons and streams, numerous small lakes and beaver ponds. In this varied and extensive region old "Timberline" had all the necessities of life and many of the luxuries of beardom.</p> @@ -1158,7 +1119,7 @@ time. His actions were those of one who is hunting for news.</p> <p>At night the bear may lie down in almost any place, but during the daytime he selects one of the safest places in his realm. If in the high mountains this may be on a ridge above the timber-line, or on a treeless -hilltop from which he commands a wide outlook, or in the end of a cañon, or in a thicket. +hilltop from which he commands a wide outlook, or in the end of a cañon, or in a thicket. <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span> Wherever the place, it is one where the bear cannot be easily surprised, and where his scouts—his scent, his sight, and his ears—would easily warn him of the approach of any possible danger.</p> @@ -1197,7 +1158,7 @@ After being out more than an hour he re-entered the den.</p> <p>Though living a solitary life in the seclusion of the wilderness, this bear was again routed out before spring. His den was only a few feet -above the stream, on the mountain-side. The débris brought down by the +above the stream, on the mountain-side. The débris brought down by the snow-slide forty or fifty feet up the gulch dammed the stream and raised the water so <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span> that it leaked through the earth into the den. Again driven forth from his den, the bear—so his tracks in the snow @@ -1298,12 +1259,12 @@ conqueror.</p> <p>On one occasion I tracked a grizzly for sixty miles from the margin of its home range. It traveled along a line that indicated it had a -definite place in mind to which it was going. It explored a cañon +definite place in mind to which it was going. It explored a cañon region, and, a day or two later, as tracks in the snow showed, went back to its old range along the trail it had followed in leaving it.</p> <p>Going one autumn from Estes Park to North Park, Colorado, I came upon a -grizzly’s track in the upper end of Forest Cañon. For several miles it +grizzly’s track in the upper end of Forest Cañon. For several miles it had followed an old wild-life trail. It crossed the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span> Continental Divide, then the No-Summer Mountains. From its trail I judged that it, too, knew where it was going.</p> @@ -1975,7 +1936,7 @@ during the winter months; but this is rarely, if ever, sufficient to keep these interesting little animals active for the entire period. In most localities, there is no available food with which to augment their scant store and they are never in evidence from late October to April. -In other locations where the fruit of the Cratægus, or ‘thorn apple,’ is +In other locations where the fruit of the Cratægus, or ‘thorn apple,’ is to be had, they may be seen almost daily, although the ground may be covered with several feet of snow and low temperatures prevail.</p> @@ -2376,14 +2337,14 @@ close to a bear and watch his ways for a day or two.</p> <p>Just as I climbed above the last trees on the eastern slope of the Continental Divide, I saw a grizzly ambling along the other side of a -narrow cañon, boldly outlined against the sky-line. I was so near that +narrow cañon, boldly outlined against the sky-line. I was so near that with my field-glasses I recognized him as “Old Timberline,” a bear with two right front toes missing. He was a silver-tip,—a nearly white old bear. For three days I followed Old Timberline through his home territory and camped on his trail at night. I had with me hatchet, kodak, field-glasses, and a package of food, but no gun.</p> -<p>The grizzly had disappeared by the time I crossed the cañon, but a clear +<p>The grizzly had disappeared by the time I crossed the cañon, but a clear line of tracks led westward. I followed them over the Divide and down into the woods on the other side. In a scat<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[Pg 120]</a></span>tered tree-growth the tracks turned abruptly to the right, then led back eastward, close to the first @@ -2415,7 +2376,7 @@ Park. The big bear and myself were on one of the high sky-lines of the earth. We traversed a territory ten thousand to twelve thousand feet above sea-level, much of it above the limits of tree growth. There were long stretches of moorland, an occasional peak towering above us, and -ridges long and short thrusting east and west, and cañons of varying +ridges long and short thrusting east and west, and cañons of varying width and depth were to be seen below us from the summit heights.</p> <p>Crossing this spur of the Divide, the grizzly entered the woods. Here he @@ -2432,13 +2393,13 @@ followed. When the next opening in the woods was reached, he went discreetly round it. You never know what a grizzly’s next move will be nor how to anticipate his actions.</p> -<p>Old Timberline started down into a cañon as though to descend a gully +<p>Old Timberline started down into a cañon as though to descend a gully diagonally to the bottom. I hastily made a short cut and was ready to take his picture when he should come out at the lower end. But he never came. After waiting some time, I back-tracked and found he had gone only -a few hundred feet down the gully, then returned to the top of the cañon +a few hundred feet down the gully, then returned to the top of the cañon and followed along the rim for a mile. He had then descended directly to -the bottom of the cañon and gone straight up to the top on the other +the bottom of the cañon and gone straight up to the top on the other side.</p> <p>Autumn is the time when bears most search the heights for food. Old @@ -2485,13 +2446,13 @@ was constantly trying to get as close as possible. Of course I had ever to keep in mind that he must not see, hear, nor scent me. I had to be particularly careful to prevent his scenting me. Often in hastening to reach a point of vantage I had to stop, note the topography, and change -my direction, because a wind-current up an<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[Pg 125]</a></span> unsuspected cañon before me +my direction, because a wind-current up an<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[Pg 125]</a></span> unsuspected cañon before me might carry news of my presence to the bear.</p> <p>Near mountain-tops the wind is deflected this way and that by ridges and -cañons. In a small area the prevailing west wind may be a north wind, +cañons. In a small area the prevailing west wind may be a north wind, and a short distance farther on it may blow from the southwest. Often, -when the bear was somewhere in a cañon, I climbed entirely out of it, to +when the bear was somewhere in a cañon, I climbed entirely out of it, to avoid the likelihood of being scented, and scurried ahead on a plateau.</p> <p>Usually I followed in the bear’s trail, but sometimes I made short cuts. @@ -2560,7 +2521,7 @@ show, and also tramples about to leave a confusion of tracks where they do show.</p> <p>Arriving at the stream, the bear crossed on a fallen log and from the -end of this leaped into a bushy growth beyond. I made a détour, thinking +end of this leaped into a bushy growth beyond. I made a détour, thinking to find his tracks on the other side of the bushes, and I threw stones into the bushes, not caring to go into them. Both tracks and grizzly seemed to have <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_129" id="Page_129">[Pg 129]</a></span> vanished. I went down stream just outside the bushes @@ -2728,7 +2689,7 @@ struggled with it in the swift current.</p> scene. A peak bristling with ledges and dotted with snow towered in the blue sky behind. Down the steep incline of the peak the clear, cold stream came with subdued roar, as it rushed the inclines and the rapids -of its solid rock-cut channel. The opposite wall of the cañon was of +of its solid rock-cut channel. The opposite wall of the cañon was of glacier-polished granite, while behind me the wall rose steeply, covered with a crowded growth of towering spruce. It was a grand wilderness playground.</p> @@ -2823,7 +2784,7 @@ the other side. The pond was half filled with sediment, and evidently the mud was more than a foot deep.</p> <p>One autumn while camping on the Continental Divide near the head of -Forest Cañon, I discovered that a grizzly will sometimes climb a slope +Forest Cañon, I discovered that a grizzly will sometimes climb a slope for the purpose of coasting. While I was watching a flock of bighorn sheep, a grizzly came to the summit of a near-by mountain. I saw him as he reached the top and supposed he was crossing to the other side. He @@ -2869,7 +2830,7 @@ night. Here he had tramped about in the snow as though having nothing in particular to do. But a coyote was trying to find something on the bones and the bear may have been threatening him. He finally started off, plainly with coasting in his mind, for without stopping he went directly -to the snow cornice. From tracks which I saw in this and other cañons I +to the snow cornice. From tracks which I saw in this and other cañons I realized that a grizzly sometimes goes out of his way in order to coast down steep snowy places.</p> @@ -3151,8 +3112,8 @@ trap held the bear from following up his assault.</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_163" id="Page_163">[Pg 163]</a></span>On another occasion I was with a party of mounted hunters with dogs who chased a grizzly out of his territory and cornered him in a deep box -cañon. He was at bay and the excited dogs were harrying him as we came -up. He stood in the end of the cañon, facing out, evidently watching for +cañon. He was at bay and the excited dogs were harrying him as we came +up. He stood in the end of the cañon, facing out, evidently watching for an opportunity to escape. He discouraged all attacks by his swift and cool-headed defense. If a bush stirred behind he made a feint to strike. If a dog came close to his side he appeared to strike without looking. @@ -3166,7 +3127,7 @@ wrecked another, and made his safe get-away. Not a shot had been fired. There was no pursuit.</p> <p>While with three hunters, I once came close upon a grizzly who was -digging for mice. The hunters opened fire. For seconds the cañon walls crashed and echoed from the resounding rattling gunnery. +digging for mice. The hunters opened fire. For seconds the cañon walls crashed and echoed from the resounding rattling gunnery. <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_164" id="Page_164">[Pg 164]</a></span> Thirty or forty shots were fired. The bear escaped. A hunter took up the trail and the following day ran down the bear and killed him. He carried no wounds @@ -3442,7 +3403,7 @@ second he fled like a frightened rabbit.</p> <p>The actions of a fisherman were being followed with the closest attention by a grizzly when I came along the opposite side of a narrow -cañon. The bear stood still for some minutes, all his faculties +cañon. The bear stood still for some minutes, all his faculties concentrated on the fisherman. Every cast of the fly was observed with the greatest interest. A dangling trout caused him much excitement. Possibly the wind, touched with man-scent, finally warned him of danger. @@ -3496,9 +3457,9 @@ particularly interested when a whirl sent it high into the air.</p> <p>Riding a lazy pony slowly, silently, along a trail in the San Juan Mountains, I came close upon a grizzly and three cubs. They aroused the deep emotional nature of my pony. He took on new and fiery life, and in -his eagerness to reach a high mountain across the cañon he forgot all -about the topography—the cañon that lay deep between. While he was -standing on one hind foot on the edge of the cañon I leaped from the +his eagerness to reach a high mountain across the cañon he forgot all +about the topography—the cañon that lay deep between. While he was +standing on one hind foot on the edge of the cañon I leaped from the saddle. The old bear and cubs, forgetting all possible danger, while he was thus performing stood up to watch the entire exhibition.</p> @@ -4257,7 +4218,7 @@ set for her or for wolves we never knew. Presently Mr. Bessie was once more teased, this time by a visiting ranchman. After the ranchman had been reassembled and revived, it was decided that the bear must be done for. He<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_226" id="Page_226">[Pg 226]</a></span> should not be killed. That smacked of murder. He should not be -caged in a zoölogical garden. He had not sinned according to bear law. +caged in a zoölogical garden. He had not sinned according to bear law. Accordingly it was agreed that he should be lost. He was led two hundred miles from the ranch and bidden to go his way. His return to the ranch preceded that of his keeper by eight hours. He was led to the mountains @@ -4394,7 +4355,7 @@ excitement and merriment, plainly just what he desired. As he<span class="pagenu hurriedly away, he looked back over his shoulder with satisfaction.</p> <p>Another amusing incident also happened in the Yellowstone. As the stage -arrived at the Cañon Hotel, one of the passengers, who had been having +arrived at the Cañon Hotel, one of the passengers, who had been having much to say concerning bears, put on his raincoat and got down on all fours, proceeding to impersonate a bear. While this demonstration was on a grizzly arrived. He made a rush at the man and chased him up a tree, @@ -4485,7 +4446,7 @@ extremely wary and avoids going near a trap. Says William H. Wright, in degree more tame or less cunning than they are to-day, for example, in the Selkirks. Many of them, it is true, come to the garbage-piles to feed, but these very bears, fifty yards back in the timber, are again as -wild as any of them anywhere. At the cañon, the garbage-pile is in a +wild as any of them anywhere. At the cañon, the garbage-pile is in a hollow at the foot of rather a steep incline that leads up to the edge of the woods. Bear after bear, coming down the trails that converge toward this point, will stop as he reaches the brink of this declivity, @@ -4827,7 +4788,7 @@ commonly believed by naturalists as well as by hunters and the public generally that there was only a single species of grizzly bear—the one described by Lewis and Clark in 1804-5, and named <i>Ursus horribilis</i> by Ord in 1815. Baird, in 1857, described another species, from -Coppermines, New Mexico, which he named <i>Ursus horriæus</i>.</p> +Coppermines, New Mexico, which he named <i>Ursus horriæus</i>.</p> <p>“Nearly forty years later, in my ‘Preliminary Synopsis of the American Bears,’ eight grizzlies and big brown bears were recognized, of which @@ -4862,7 +4823,7 @@ species? From the nature of the case, the stability of species depends on the rarity of crossings with other species, for if interbreeding were to take place frequently the species so interbreeding would of course cease to exist, having merged into a common hybrid. Hybrids now and then -occur, particularly in zoölogical gardens, but among wild animals in +occur, particularly in zoölogical gardens, but among wild animals in their native haunts they are exceedingly rare.</p> <p>“The number of species here given will appear to many as preposterous. @@ -4975,8 +4936,8 @@ BIG BROWN BEARS, WITH TYPE LOCALITIES.</span><a name="FNanchor_1" id="FNanchor_1 <tr><td> </td><td> </td><td class="tdl"><i>rungiusi sagittalis</i> nobis</td><td class="tdl">Champagne Landing, southwestern Yukon.</td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td> </td><td class="tdl"><i>macfarlani</i> nobis</td><td class="tdl">Anderson River, 50 miles below Fort Anderson, Mackenzie.</td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td> </td><td class="tdl"><i>canadensis</i> Merriam<a href="#Footnote_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a></td><td class="tdl">Moose Pass, near Mount Robson, British Columbia.</td></tr> -<tr><td class="tdl" colspan="4"><i>Arizonæ</i> group:</td></tr> -<tr><td> </td><td class="tdl" colspan="2"><i>Ursus arizonæ</i> Merriam</td><td class="tdl">Escudilla Mts., Apache County, Arizona.</td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdl" colspan="4"><i>Arizonæ</i> group:</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td><td class="tdl" colspan="2"><i>Ursus arizonæ</i> Merriam</td><td class="tdl">Escudilla Mts., Apache County, Arizona.</td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td> </td><td class="tdl"><i>idahoensis</i> nobis</td><td class="tdl">North Fork Teton River, eastern Idaho.</td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td> </td><td class="tdl"><i>pulchellus pulchellus</i> nobis</td><td class="tdl">Ross River, Yukon.</td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td> </td><td class="tdl"><i>pulchellus ereunetes</i> nobis</td><td class="tdl">Beaverfoot Range, Kootenay District, British Columbia.</td></tr> @@ -5000,9 +4961,9 @@ BIG BROWN BEARS, WITH TYPE LOCALITIES.</span><a name="FNanchor_1" id="FNanchor_1 <tr><td> </td><td> </td><td class="tdl"><i>kluane impiger</i> nobis</td><td class="tdl">Columbia Valley, British Columbia.</td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td> </td><td class="tdl"><i>pellyensis</i> nobis</td><td class="tdl">Ketza Divide, Pelly Mountains, Yukon.</td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td> </td><td class="tdl"><i>andersoni</i> nobis<a href="#Footnote_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a></td><td class="tdl">Dease River, near Great Bear Lake, Mackenzie.</td></tr> -<tr><td class="tdl" colspan="4"><i>Horriæus</i> group:</td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdl" colspan="4"><i>Horriæus</i> group:</td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td class="tdl" colspan="2"><i>Ursus apache</i> Merriam</td><td class="tdl">Whorton Creek, south slope White Mts., eastern Arizona (a few miles west of Blue).</td></tr> -<tr><td> </td><td> </td><td class="tdl"><i>horriæus</i> Baird</td><td class="tdl">Coppermines, southwestern New Mexico.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td><td> </td><td class="tdl"><i>horriæus</i> Baird</td><td class="tdl">Coppermines, southwestern New Mexico.</td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td> </td><td class="tdl"><i>henshawi</i> Merriam</td><td class="tdl">Southern Sierra Nevada, near Havilah, Kern County, California.</td></tr> <tr><td class="tdl" colspan="4"><i>Stikeenensis</i> group:</td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td class="tdl" colspan="2"><i>Ursus stikeenensis</i> Merriam</td><td class="tdl">Tatletuey Lake, tributary to Finlay River, near head Skeena River, British Columbia.</td></tr> @@ -5017,7 +4978,7 @@ BIG BROWN BEARS, WITH TYPE LOCALITIES.</span><a name="FNanchor_1" id="FNanchor_1 <tr><td class="tdl" colspan="4"><i>Richardsoni</i> group:</td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td class="tdl" colspan="2"><i>Ursus richardsoni</i> Swainson</td><td class="tdl">Shore of Arctic Ocean, west side Bathurst Inlet, near mouth of Hood River.</td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td> </td><td class="tdl"><i>russelli</i> Merriam<a href="#Footnote_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a></td><td class="tdl">West side Mackenzie River delta, Canada.</td></tr> -<tr><td> </td><td> </td><td class="tdl"><i>phæonyx</i> Merriam<a href="#Footnote_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a></td><td class="tdl">Glacier Mountain, Tanana Mts., Alaska (about 2 miles below source of Comet Creek, near Forty-mile Creek, between Yukon and Tanana Rivers).</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td><td> </td><td class="tdl"><i>phæonyx</i> Merriam<a href="#Footnote_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a></td><td class="tdl">Glacier Mountain, Tanana Mts., Alaska (about 2 miles below source of Comet Creek, near Forty-mile Creek, between Yukon and Tanana Rivers).</td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td> </td><td class="tdl"><i>internationalis</i> Merriam</td><td class="tdl">Alaska-Yukon boundary, about 50 miles south of Arctic coast.</td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td> </td><td class="tdl"><i>ophrus</i> Merriam</td><td class="tdl">Eastern British Columbia (exact locality unknown).</td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td> </td><td class="tdl"><i>washake</i> Merriam</td><td class="tdl">North Fork Shoshone River, Absaroka Mts., western Wyoming.</td></tr> @@ -5028,7 +4989,7 @@ BIG BROWN BEARS, WITH TYPE LOCALITIES.</span><a name="FNanchor_1" id="FNanchor_1 <tr><td class="tdl" colspan="4"><i>Innuitus</i> group:</td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td class="tdl" colspan="2"><i>Ursus innuitus</i> Merriam</td><td class="tdl">Golofnin Bay, south side Seward Peninsula, northwestern Alaska.</td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td> </td><td class="tdl"><i>cressonus</i> Merriam</td><td class="tdl">Lakina River, south slope Wrangell Range, Alaska.</td></tr> -<tr><td> </td><td> </td><td class="tdl"><i>alexandræ</i> Merriam<a href="#Footnote_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a></td><td class="tdl">Kusilof Lake, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td><td> </td><td class="tdl"><i>alexandræ</i> Merriam<a href="#Footnote_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a></td><td class="tdl">Kusilof Lake, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska.</td></tr> <tr><td class="tdl" colspan="4"><i>Townsendi</i> group:</td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td class="tdl" colspan="2"><i>Ursus townsendi</i> Merriam</td><td class="tdl">Mainland of Southeastern Alaska (exact locality uncertain).</td></tr> <tr><td class="tdl" colspan="4"><i>Dalli</i> group:</td></tr> @@ -5051,7 +5012,7 @@ BIG BROWN BEARS, WITH TYPE LOCALITIES.</span><a name="FNanchor_1" id="FNanchor_1 <div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1" id="Footnote_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> “Nearly 130 years ago Prof. Zauschner proposed the name <i>Ursus saribur</i> for an animal ‘from the region of Canada’ (Bestimmung -der Hundsart Krokute, und der Bärenart Saribur, p. 8, 1788), but the +der Hundsart Krokute, und der Bärenart Saribur, p. 8, 1788), but the species appears to be impossible of identification.”</p></div> <div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_2" id="Footnote_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_1"><span class="label">[2]</span></a> “Reference to group provisional.”</p></div> @@ -5237,7 +5198,7 @@ population, except in the Mount McKinley National Park.</p> <p>The grizzly needs protection at once, needs your active interest now. He is making his last stand and is surrounded by relentless foes. Protection only will save him and enable him to perpetuate himself. -Without the grizzly the wilds would be dull, the cañon and the crag +Without the grizzly the wilds would be dull, the cañon and the crag would lose their eloquent appeal. This wild uncrowned king has won his place in nature which no other animal can fill. We need the grizzly bear—the King of the Wilderness World.</p> @@ -5563,382 +5524,6 @@ thing I had early learned in trailing and studying the grizzly).</p> curiosity is accompanied with a keenness of observation).</p></blockquote> </div> - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Grizzly, by Enos A. 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