. Lives of the hunted, containing a true account of the doings of five quadrupeds & three birds, and in elucidation of the same, over 200 drawings . pleased ; so, after all, it was chiefly her fault, forshe should not have permitted such things. Johnny had only three good legs, his coatwas faded and mangy, his limbs were thin, andhis ears and paunch were disproportionatelylarge. Yet his mother thought the world ofhim. She was evidently convinced that he wasa little beauty and the Prince of all Bears, so, ofcourse, she quite spoiled him. She was alwaysready to get into trouble on his account, a
. Lives of the hunted, containing a true account of the doings of five quadrupeds & three birds, and in elucidation of the same, over 200 drawings . pleased ; so, after all, it was chiefly her fault, forshe should not have permitted such things. Johnny had only three good legs, his coatwas faded and mangy, his limbs were thin, andhis ears and paunch were disproportionatelylarge. Yet his mother thought the world ofhim. She was evidently convinced that he wasa little beauty and the Prince of all Bears, so, ofcourse, she quite spoiled him. She was alwaysready to get into trouble on his account, and hewas always delighted to lead her there. Al-though such a wretched little failure, Johnnywas far from being a fool, for he usually knewjust what he ,wanted and how to get it, if teas-ing his mother could carry the point. II It was in the summer of 1897 that I madetheir acquaintance. I was in the Park to studythe home life of the animals, and had been toldthat in the woods, near the Fountain Hotel, Icould see Bears at any time, which, of course, Iscarcely believed. But on stepping out of theback door five minutes after arriving, I came145. Johnny Bear face to face with a large Blackbear and her twocubs. I stopped short, not a httle startled. TheBears also stopped and sat up to look at Mother Bear made a curious shortKoff Koff, and looked toward a near pine-tree. The cubs seemed to know what shemeant, for they ran to this tree and scrambledup like two little monkeys, and when safely aloftthey sat like small boys, holding on with theirhands, while their little black legs dangled inthe air, and waited to see what was to happendown below. The Mother Bear, still on her hind legs, cameslowly toward me, and I began to feel veryuncomfortable indeed, for she stood about sixfeet high in her stockings and had apparentlynever heard of the magical power of the humaneye. I had not even a stick to defend myself with,and when she gave a low growl, I was about toretreat to the Hotel,
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