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    The Biography of a Grizzly
    The Biography of a Grizzly
    The Biography of a Grizzly
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    The Biography of a Grizzly

    By Ernest Thompson Seton

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 1, 1977

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    • 5/5
      The original novel that was the basis for the movie with line drawing illustrations. Wonderfully told nature story about a grizzly bear, her two cubs and the hardships of living in the wild. Ages 10 and up, worth re-reading many times.
    • 4/5
      A very unexpected pleasure. Not too maudlin like some stories or too sad like others. Just a lovely little tale of an orphaned grizzly and his life.

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    The Biography of a Grizzly - Ernest Thompson Seton

    Project Gutenberg's The Biography of a Grizzly, by Ernest Seton-Thompson

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    Title: The Biography of a Grizzly

    Author: Ernest Seton-Thompson

    Release Date: November, 2005 [EBook #9330] This file was first posted on September 23, 2003 Last Updated: May 7, 2013

    Language: English

    *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BIOGRAPHY OF A GRIZZLY ***

    Produced by Juliet Sutherland, David Widger and PG Distributed Proofreaders from images generously made available by the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions

    THE BIOGRAPHY OF A GRIZZLY

    by Ernest Seton-Thompson

    With 75 Drawings (not available in this file)

    Author of: The Trail of the Sandhill Stag Wild Animals I Have

    Known Art Anatomy of Animals Mammals of Manitoba Birds of Manitoba

    1899

    This Book is dedicated to the memory of the days spent at the

    Palette Ranch on the Graybull, where from hunter, miner, personal

    experience, and the host himself, I gathered many chapters of the

    History of Wahb.

    [Illustration: ] In this Book the designs for title-page, cover, and general makeup, were done by Mrs. Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson.

    [Illustration: ] List of Full-Page Drawings

    They all Rushed Under it like a Lot of Little Pigs

    Like Children Playing 'Hands'

    He Stayed in the Tree till near Morning

    A Savage Bobcat … Warned Him to go Back

    Wahb Yelled and Jerked Back

    He Struck one Fearful, Crushing Blow

    Ain't He an Awful Size, Though?

    Wahb Smashed His Skull

    Causing the Pool to Overflow

    He Deliberately Stood up on the Pine Root

    The Roachback Fled into the Woods

    He Paused a Moment at the Gate

    PART I

    THE CUBHOOD OF WAHB

    [Illustration:]

    I.

    He was born over a score of years ago, away up in the wildest part of the wild West, on the head of the Little Piney, above where the Palette Ranch is now.

    His Mother was just an ordinary Silvertip, living the quiet life that all Bears prefer, minding her own business and doing her duty by her family, asking no favors of any one excepting to let her alone. It was July before she took her remarkable family down the Little Piney to the Graybull, and showed them what strawberries were, and where to find them.

    Notwithstanding their Mother's deep conviction, the cubs were not remarkably big or bright; yet they were a remarkable family, for there were four of them, and it is not often a Grizzly Mother can boast of more than two.

    [Illustration]

    The woolly-coated little creatures were having a fine time, and reveled in the lovely mountain summer and the abundance of good things. Their Mother turned over each log and flat stone they came to, and the moment it was lifted they all rushed under it like a lot of little pigs to lick up the ants and grubs there hidden.

    It never once occurred to them that Mammy's strength might fail sometime, and let the great rock drop just as they got under it; nor would any one have thought so that might have chanced to see that huge arm and that shoulder sliding about under the great yellow robe she wore. No, no; that arm could never fail. The little ones were quite right. So they hustled and tumbled one another at each fresh log in their haste to be first, and squealed little squeals, and growled little growls, as if each was a pig, a pup, and a kitten all rolled into one.

    They were well acquainted with the common little brown ants that harbor under logs in the uplands, but now they came for the first time on one of the hills of the great, fat, luscious Wood-ant, and they all crowded around to lick up those that ran out. But they soon found that they were licking up more cactus-prickles and sand than ants, till their Mother said in Grizzly, Let me show you how.

    She knocked off the top of the hill, then laid her great paw flat on it for a few moments, and as the angry ants swarmed on to it she licked them up with one lick, and got a good rich mouthful to crunch, without a grain of sand or a cactus-stinger in it. The cubs soon learned. Each put up both his little brown paws, so that there was a ring of paws all around the ant-hill, and there they sat, like children playing 'hands,' and each licked first the right and then the left paw, or one cuffed his brother's ears for licking a paw that was not his own, till the ant-hill was cleared out and they were ready for a change.

    Ants are sour food and made the Bears thirsty, so the old one led down to the river. After they had drunk as much as they wanted, and dabbled their feet, they walked down the bank to a pool, where the old one's keen eye caught sight of a number of Buffalo-fish basking on the bottom. The water was very low, mere pebbly rapids between

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