[To THE EDITOR Or THE . BrscrAroa."] SIR,—I have read with
much interest your article on " Dainties- of Animal Diet." Perhaps you may like to hear the following personal experiences. Some few years ago I was climbing in the Rockies. One day when out near the great glacier I came to a patch of ripe raspberries. I was :us beginning to .eat some when I saw a few feet ahead of me in the middle of the patch a bear (not a grizzly) busily doing the same. He was quite as much frightened as I was and ran off at once. Near the same place I stayed at a house where they had got a very young grizzly cub. He was a most entertaining little fellow and I soon taught him to climb to the top of a pole (a great feat for him for he was enormously fat) for bits of sweet biscuit and soft fruit. A few months later I witnessed a cloud burst in California (five inches of rain in three-quarters of an hour !) It carried everything before it, and amongst other things swept a large crop of water-melons into the valley, where was a numerous herd of cattle. Next morning all the cattle looked as if they were great with calf,—unable LO walk and afraid to lie down.—I am, Sir, &c.,
G. H. C. B.
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