252 TRUE BEAR STORIES. 



distance I turned my head and saw the 

 bear running in the opposite direction. I 

 did not stop, however, and I got to the 

 ranch nearly an hour before the old cow. 



In the shingle mills of the North the Nor 

 wegian hands have the same veneration for 

 the bear as the Indian. They always 

 speak of him not as a bear, but as "the old 

 man with the fur coat on." 



