I reckon it's his sign manual
to tell other animals who may be skulking around that it's his kill, and
that there'll be trouble if any of them go monkeying around it. At any
rate, they don't fool with it. They know he's king in these parts.
Wherever the grizzly sits is the head of the table."
"Are they really as savage as they are cracked up to be?" asked Bert. "If
so, it must be great sport hunting them."
"Are they savage?" echoed their host pityingly. "Say, son, there's
nothing on four feet as full of hate and poison, unless perhaps a
gorilla. And if it ever came to a tussle between them two, my money
would go on the grizzly every time.
"As to it's being great sport hunting them, it's the grizzly that usually
does the hunting. For myself, I haven't any ambition that way. I'm
perfectly willing to give him his full half of the road whenever we meet.
And we won't meet at all, if I see him first. I've had more than one
tussle with an old silver-tip, and I've got a few hides up at the house
to serve as reminders. But it's always been when it was more dangerous to
run than it was to stay and fight it out.
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