Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-15

at all honorable hazards.
Sairy soon regarded me as a harmless factor in
her daily round. She began to make onger stays
away from her lair, and had more time to WOO the
cubs | made my presence known and familiar to
them SO nsidousy that even at first, they
greatly frightened They would sink into small
crcvces and peep at with twink!ng eyes while
l coaxed them.
One morning, after the cubs were so tame they
would lie to be scratched like little pigs fingered
with them later than had intended and by accident
was subjected to a test which had intended some
time to undergo. While at play with her children
l heard Sairys footballs among the pine needles and
close that | could not hope to escape her charge
by climbing the rock walls of her niche.
l rose silently stepped back from the cubs,
folded my arms and stood stone-stil as Sarys huge
head and shoulders appeared in the notch. 1t was
a nerve-try1ng instant Sairy hesitated for
ment when she saw me, then, with teeth barred and
hair on end, she advanced. l carried revolver
luckily, else l should certainly have drawn it as
Sairy came at me- and the slightest motion of de-
Tense at such close quarters would have cost my
life As it was looked the old dam straight in the
eye and threw all my power into the gaze. She
filled the place with horrible noise; her cubs shrank
affrighted into their hiding places; and for moment
| believed the fierce old she about to maui me
to a pulp. But she stopped short within two PAGES
reared against the rocks and her hot breath steamed
in my face. | did not move 50 much eyeid,
and Sarv quailed slid back upon all fours and pres
emily lay down guard. l had won, and knew that
| was Sarys master. :,
I climbed quietly out of the crevasse by the way
had used in entering The next morning l went
prepared to queer Sary, which the next
step in my program | succeeded admirably Do
YOU smile, reader at the idea of ''queering' a wild
anilnal2 Did you when you boy
queer" horse, dog until the animal
expression OF fright something Collical to be-
hold? 1t is cruel sport with domestic animals, but
the process may be developed to legitimate
Within two hours | had Sairy SO nervous thai she
ready to leave the range. She had already
begun to make daytime excursions with her cubs
She not long in determining to move her family,
and managed easily to steer her travel in
which was prepared to follow So we set out
Sairy, the cubs and myself, toward the Upper Cas-
cade which is beyond the western limit Of the park
Sairy would follow me- but there is no law against
walking behind grizzly and her cubs.
Sary tried, of course, to get out of my sight, but
the ground rough the day warm, and her cubs
prone to lie in the shade of stones and trees She
compelled often to and sometimes to cuff
them into marching order. At such times they whim-
pered growcd, SMILED like lot of children Elijah
for SO | had named my favorte had to be corrected
oftcncSt, for when he did not provoke his dam by
lettering his conduct most eXasperating
1t was past shutdown and the cubs were on their
last legs when we reached Cascade Creek. Here |
vanished among chaparra while Sairy giving
attention to her Young Peerng from the cover, |
saw her look of intense relief when, at furtive
glance, she discovered that her disturbing shadow
gone. She now coaxed and carried her tired
cubs into near sandy run, with willow and currant
thickets along its trickling streamlct In small
patch of black bushes they piled themselves
in heap and slept
lay upon the sands of cascade bar until
toward morning, Just before daylight | ate a
biscuit sandwich; then l uncorked vial which
would DESTROY the scent crcpt forward and
SairI n hen