above all, the monster Bear that had 

 killed Tampico's sheep, afforded topics 

 of talk. " Ah, a Bear devill de hell- 

 brute a Gringo Bear pardon, my 

 amigo, I mean a very terroar." 



As the sheep-herder enlarged on the 

 marvelous cunning of the Bear that 

 had a private sheep corral of his own, 

 and the size of the monster, forty or 

 fifty feet high now for such Bears 

 are of rapid and continuous growth 

 Kellyan's eye twinkled and he said: 



" Say, Pedro, I believe you once 

 lived pretty nigh the Hassayampa, 

 did n't you?" 



This does not mean that that is a 

 country of great Bears, but was an 

 allusion to the popular belief that any 

 one who tastes a single drop of the 

 Hassayampa River can never after- 

 ward tell the truth. Some scientists 

 who have looked into the matter aver 



