(yilan'0 Bo^at Companion 



Miss Grizzly was ever independent, resourceful, 

 and capable. One day a teamster handed her a bot- 

 tle of catsup. Standing erect, she took it deftly in 

 her fore paws. She was greatly interested in it — 

 probably in the color. In turning it about she 

 caught sight of a floating air-bubble. Inverting the 

 bottle from end to end, she tried to make this out; 

 she held it between her eyes and the light, she 

 shook it back and forth close to her ear. Then, go- 

 ing directly to a near-by log, she brought the bottle 

 down upon it and catsup splashed in all directions. 

 Her curiosity satisfied, she seemed to enjoy licking 

 up the catsup. 



The men never teased Miss Grizzly nor at- 

 tempted to teach her any tricks. Consequently her 

 disposition was uniformly of the best. She enjoyed 

 cartwheeling and liked to have the men start her 

 with a little push down the slope near the mill. 

 Curling her nose behind her toes, she rolled over 

 and over. Occasionally she climbed upon the flat- 

 roofed lumber-shed for the fun of rolling off. While 

 she did much climbing over the logs and lumber- 

 piles and on the low roofs, she did not attempt to 

 climb a tree after the first few weeks she was at the 

 mill. 



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