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Lured by Sweetened Water, 

 he manager of a little circus 

 ing the San Joaquin Valley, California, 



was careless enough to allow three 

 performing bear to slip out o 

 cages and roam about the country* i 



Fortunately the only weapons that 

 happened to be available were shot- 

 guns charged with bird shot, so that 

 when the ranchers went forth to do 

 battle with the invaders the Bruin fam- 

 ily was only tickled with a few little 

 lead pellets. 



Meanwhile the manager appeared 

 and quieted the fears of the populace, 

 explaining that the wild animals were 

 only trick bears and were not likely to 

 do any serious damage. His main 

 worry was to gfet them back to their 



cages. An acquaintance j ; who 



liappene ;ig in his ..... ohiobile hit 



than ha 

 the bear trio pro i mally e; :d in 



the show, where they sat aroun I i 

 table and drank huge q ! of 



sugar and water from beer bottles. 

 The automobile owner loaded up his 

 tonneau with as much of the sweet 

 mixture as he could find, threw in the 

 clutch and sallied forth to the neigh- 

 borhood where the bears were enjoy- 

 ing their liberty. All three of them 

 were enticed into the automobile 

 where they sat up as if the show were 

 on and poured gallons of the delicious 

 beverage down their hairy throats. — 

 Robert H. Moulton in "Our Dumb 

 Animals." Cut by courtesy of F. Y. 

 Miller, London. Ontario. 



\ QUARTETTE OF "HARD" DRINKERS OF SWEETENED WATER. 



