ld bear the first fall, but usually shift for
themselves when the new cubs come, although it is not an infrequent
sight to see an old bear with two sizes of cubs following her.

As a rule, the different varieties of black bear are not dangerous.
While they will occasionally charge the hunter when wounded, they
usually flee away at their best pace when danger appears.

Even when interested with berry-picking or hunting, the bear is
watchful and wary and as his scent and hearing are of the keenest, he
is hard to surprise. It is probably true that his eyesight is not as
keen as his other senses.

The black bear is hunted both on the still hunt, and with dogs. When
dogs are employed, a large pack is used, and they merely run the bear
until it is treed or brought to bay, when it is shot by the hunter.
Dogs are of little, if any, use in hunting grizzlies.

There are several varieties of large bears, probably all variations of
grizzlies, which are differentiated locally. Some of these are the
roachback, the silver tip, the California grizzly, the plains bear, the
smut-face, etc.

In the olden days before the grizzly became wise, he would charge
anything that walked either on two or four feet. But he has now
learned all about firearms, and is as willing to run from the hunter,
as is his cousin, the black bear.

The bear's manner of hunting large game is usually by ambush. As most
of his victims are more fleet of foot than he, he does not undertake to
run them down in the open, but if he can get them at disadvantage in
thick cover, or at the lick, this is his opportunity.

In the Adirondack country and in Northern Maine, it is a common sight
to see a young bear about a farmhouse, where he is as much at home as
the farm-dog. Many of the summer hotels, in this region, keep a tame
bear to amuse the visitors.

These bears are obtained as cubs from any one who is fortunate enough
to discover a bear's den and who has the good luck to find the old bear
away from home and the cubs at his mercy.

A likely cub can usually be obtained in either Maine or Northern New
York for five or ten dollars.

Bears occasionally stray down the Green Mountains into Western
Massachusetts, where they inhabit the Hoosac Mountains, which are a
continuation of this range.

Very recently a bear was killed near October Mountain, upon Mr.
Whitney's extensive game-preserve. He had been hanging about the
mountain all summer and had given two b