. 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 . It occurred to me that I might now be in areally dangerous place. For it is one thingsurprising a Bear that has no family responsi-bilities, and another stirring up a bad-temperedold mother by frightening her cub. Supposing, I thought, that cranky LittleJohnny should wander over to this end of thegarbage and find me in the hole ; he will at onceset up a squall, and his mother, of course, willthink I am hurting him, and, without giving mea chance t
. 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 . It occurred to me that I might now be in areally dangerous place. For it is one thingsurprising a Bear that has no family responsi-bilities, and another stirring up a bad-temperedold mother by frightening her cub. Supposing, I thought, that cranky LittleJohnny should wander over to this end of thegarbage and find me in the hole ; he will at onceset up a squall, and his mother, of course, willthink I am hurting him, and, without giving mea chance to explain, may forget the rules of thePark and make things very unpleasant. Luckily, all the jam-pots were at Johnnysend; he stayed by them, and Grumpy stayedby him. At length he noticed that his motherhad a better tin than any he could find, and ashe ran whining to take it from her he chancedto glance away up the slope. There he sawsomething that made him sit up and utter acurious little Koff Koff Koff Koff. His mother turned quickly, and sat up to see what the child was looking at. I followedtheir gaze, and there, oh, horrors! was an 162. i. ■ ^-T Johnny Got Behind his Mother. J Johnny Bear enormous Grizzly Bear. He was a monster; helooked like a fur-clad omnibus coming throughthe trees. Johnny set up a whine at once and got be-hind his mother. She uttered a deep growl,and all her back hair stood on end. Mine didtoo, but I kept as still as possible. With stately tread the Grizzly came on. Hisvast shoulders sliding along his sides, and hissilvery robe swaying at each tread, like thetrappings on an elephant, gave an impressionof power that was appalling. Johnny began to whine more loudly, and Ifully sympathized with him now, though I didnot join in. After a moments hesitationGrumpy turned to her noisy cub and said some-thing that sounded to me like two or threeshort coughs-Koff Koff Koff. But I ima-gine that she really said: My child, I thinkyou had better get up that tree, w
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