. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders. Zoology. 184 FAMILIAR LIFE IN FIELD AND FOREST. and claw a stick out of the water with the remain- ing one. Of late years it is probable that extremely few bears have been found in the Catskill woods; but I remember as a boy a great sportsman's resort on the eastern slope of the hills not far from Cairo, called Barney Butts's, where bearskins and tame bears years ago were almost as common as chipmunks are now. One unfortunate young bruin which I remember better than the others had lost a paw in a steel trap; it wa
. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders. Zoology. 184 FAMILIAR LIFE IN FIELD AND FOREST. and claw a stick out of the water with the remain- ing one. Of late years it is probable that extremely few bears have been found in the Catskill woods; but I remember as a boy a great sportsman's resort on the eastern slope of the hills not far from Cairo, called Barney Butts's, where bearskins and tame bears years ago were almost as common as chipmunks are now. One unfortunate young bruin which I remember better than the others had lost a paw in a steel trap; it was said that he had gnawed it off (a not uncom- mon thing for a trapped bear to do), escaped, and was recaptured after tracing his blood- stained tracks over the frozen snow. The limb eventually healed quite perfectly, and he managed by the following summer to do as well with three legs as most of his kind did with four. But I never could forget the picture which my imagination con- jured up of poor bruin hobbling in anguish over the icy snow, a wretched victim of man's inhumanity; so he was regaled with cakes and lumps of sugar, the best way of showing him my boyish sympathy. The. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler), 1854-1938; Underwood, William Lyman, 1864-1929, phot. New York, D. Appleton and Company
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