True bear stories . racter for ferocity 114 TEUE BEAK STORIES. almost entirely to tradition, but, in somedegree, to the female bear when seekingto protect her young. Of course, the griz-zlies are good fighters, when forced to it;but as for lying in wait for anyone, likethe lion, or creeping, cat-like, as the tigerdoes, into camp to carry off: someone forsupper, such a thing was never heard of inconnection with the grizzly. The grizzly went out as the Americanrifle came in. I do not think he was a lover of home and family, andso fell where he was born. For heis still found here and
True bear stories . racter for ferocity 114 TEUE BEAK STORIES. almost entirely to tradition, but, in somedegree, to the female bear when seekingto protect her young. Of course, the griz-zlies are good fighters, when forced to it;but as for lying in wait for anyone, likethe lion, or creeping, cat-like, as the tigerdoes, into camp to carry off: someone forsupper, such a thing was never heard of inconnection with the grizzly. The grizzly went out as the Americanrifle came in. I do not think he was a lover of home and family, andso fell where he was born. For heis still found here and there, all upand down the land, as the Indian is stillfound, but he is no longer the majestic andserene king of the world. His whole lifehas been disturbed, broken up; and histemper ruined. He is a cattle thief now,and even a sheep thief. In old age, hekeeps close to his canyon by day, deep inthe impenetrable chaparral, and at nightshuffles down hill to some hog-pen, per-fectly careless of dogs or shots, and, tear-. The bear was waiting there.—Page 111. AS FEEMONT FOUND HIM. 115 ing out a whole side of the pen, feeds hisfill on the inmates. One of the interior counties kept a stand-ing reward for the capture of an old grizzlyof this character for several years. Buthe defied everything and he escaped every-thing but old age. Some hunters finallycrept in to where the old king lay, nearlyblind and dying of old age, and dispatchedhim with a volley from several Winches-ter rifles. It was found that he was almosttoothless, his paws had been terribly mu-tilated by numerous steel traps, and it issaid that his kingly old carcass had re-ceived nearly lead enough to sink a smallship. There were no means of ascertain-ing his exact weight, but it was claimedthat skin, bone and bullets, as he wasfound, he would have weighed well nigha ton. XIII. THE BEAR WITH SPECTACLES. And now let us go down to near themouth of the Father of Waters, to ?arraTarra Land or Barren Land, as it wascalled of
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