The bear sneezed at them once and dared to pad up to Dipper's sneaker and give it a sniff. Was he where all the delicious smells were coming from?

"He's awful small..."

Maurice watched with that sort of half-scared half-enchanted face people feed buffalo slices of toast through cracked car windows at parks do. He had never seen a young bear this close before. And there was a reason.

That reason rose up out of the bushes and towered twelve feet above them and sported an impressive sixteen point rack. It surveyed the area and then spotted its baby. And them.