XI. 

 A GRIZZLY'S SLY LITTLE JOKE. 



I know an old Indian who was terribly 

 frightened by an old monster grizzly and 

 her half-grown cub, one autumn, while out 

 gathering manzanita berries. But badly 

 as he was frightened, he was not even 

 scratched. 



It seems that while he had his head 

 raised, and was busy gathering and eating 

 berries, he almost stumbled over an old 

 bear and her cub. They had eaten their fill 

 and fallen asleep in the trail on the wooded 

 hillside. The old Indian had only time to 

 turn on his heel and throw himself head 

 long in the large end of a hollow log, which 

 luckily lay at hand. This, however, was 1 

 only a temporary refuge. He saw, to his 

 delight, that the log was open at the other 

 end, and corkscrewing his way along 

 toward the further end, he was about to 



emerge, when, to his dismay, he saw the 

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