216 TRUE BEAR STORIES. 



self shut up in a box the angry and insulted 

 bear ceased roaring and in a short time he 

 philosophically stretched himself on the 

 floor and wondered what would happen 

 next. 



The next thing that happened to him 

 was the standing of his cage on end, but 

 that did not appear to disturb him. A 

 wagon was backed up, and the cage was 

 tilted down again and placed upon the 

 wagon, which was then hauled down the 

 canyon and along the river bed to a little 

 water station on the Southern Pacific Rail 

 road, where the cage was put upon a stock 

 car. The car was provisioned with a quar 

 ter of beef, and a lot of watermelons, and 

 attached to a freight train, then men who 

 had helped to bring the bear out of the 

 mountains waved their hats, and the Mon 

 arch caught a last glimpse of his native 

 hills as the train whirled him and the cor 

 respondent northward. 



It must have been a very strange, per 

 haps terrifying, thing to the wild grizzly 



