. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders. Zoology. 186 FAMILIAR LIFE IN FIELD AND FOREST. china-white snowberry, and the common wintergreon {Gaultheria procumlen),), to all of which the hear is partial, there is another mountain berry actually named for him, the bearberry {Arctostaphylos Uva- Urs'i), of which he is said to he particularly fond. But he does not always confine himself to the wilderness in his search for sustenance: he is a great rover, especially in autumn, and not infrequently he comes down the mountain side and plun- ^' ders the orchard o
. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders. Zoology. 186 FAMILIAR LIFE IN FIELD AND FOREST. china-white snowberry, and the common wintergreon {Gaultheria procumlen),), to all of which the hear is partial, there is another mountain berry actually named for him, the bearberry {Arctostaphylos Uva- Urs'i), of which he is said to he particularly fond. But he does not always confine himself to the wilderness in his search for sustenance: he is a great rover, especially in autumn, and not infrequently he comes down the mountain side and plun- ^' ders the orchard of its fruit; he will even enter the barnyard, and his presence there is the immediate signal for an uproarious com- motion among the animals. It is a great pity one can not persuade the horse that the bear is quite as much of a coward as himself. Indeed, two such cow- ards it would be difficult to find the like of through- out the animal kingdom. I have rarely heard of a black bear attacking any creature larger than a calf, and in the presence of a bear a horse loses his head, shies, jumps, trembles like an aspen, and bolts if he gets a chance. For that matter, the keen-scented horse will smell a bear through a two-inch pine board, and the intervening side of a barn is, of course, far from reassuring to him. Last summer an itinerant French-. 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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