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Show SHREWD BEABS. "That the grizzly bear is the sharpest animal that walks on four legs was proven to my entire satisfaction last week," said W. II. Wright, the veteran grizzly hunter and naturalist, upon his return from a trip to Yellowstone park for the purpose of photographing pho-tographing Bruin in his native haunts. "The ordinary black bear is an unmitigated idiot compared with him. "My photographing device, by means of which I hoped to make the grizzlies take flasnligbt pictures of themselves, was cleverly circumvented by tbem. The slender little No. 40 black linen thread which I stretched across their trail, expecting they would trip against it in the dark and set oil a flashlight powder, wan scented by them upon their approach and. without exception, they either turned back or proceeded gingerly to investigate investi-gate it. In one instance three of them traced this thread in- tbe dark down to the end, attached to a spool which I had buried, and du; it up. "For this reason my mission was almost a failure. Through their inquisitiveness they set off the flashlight four times, and one exposure ex-posure produced an excellent negative. The other three were failures because of "insufficient "insuffi-cient powder or other defects for which the bears- were not to blame. I'm going bark again next week, however, and hope to perfect per-fect my device to a degree that will produce better results. "In all, I saw approximately thirty bears walk up to that thread from my place of hiding, which was 200 feet distant on the windward aide of the traih Their antics were something remarkable. The she bears with cubs invsriably retraced their steps as aoon as they discovered the thread. I saw two with two cubs each, two with three cubs each and one with four cubs. Solicitude Solici-tude for Vhir - young cansed them to take no chances." .Spokane Spokesman-Review. |