. 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 . wn to the Hotel men that they havereceived names suggested by their looks orways. Slim Jim was a very long-legged thinBlackbear; Snuffy was a Blackbear that lookedas though he had been singed; Fatty was avery fat, lazy Bear that always lay down to eat;the Twins were two half-grown, ragged speci-mens that always came and went together. ButGrumpy and Little Johnny were the best knownof them all. Grumpy was the biggest and fiercest of theBlackbears,
. 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 . wn to the Hotel men that they havereceived names suggested by their looks orways. Slim Jim was a very long-legged thinBlackbear; Snuffy was a Blackbear that lookedas though he had been singed; Fatty was avery fat, lazy Bear that always lay down to eat;the Twins were two half-grown, ragged speci-mens that always came and went together. ButGrumpy and Little Johnny were the best knownof them all. Grumpy was the biggest and fiercest of theBlackbears, and Johnny, apparently her onlyson, was a peculiarly tiresome little cub, for heseemed never to cease either grumbling orwhining. This probably meant that he wassick, for a healthy little Bear does not grumbleall the time, any more than a healthy indeed Johnny looked sick; he was themost miserable specimen in the Park. Hiswhole appearance suggested dyspepsia; andthis I quite understood when I saw the awfulmixtures h^ would eat at that at all that he fancied he would his mother allowed him to do as he142. His Whole Appearance Suggested Dyspepsia. Johnny Bear 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, a
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