to be settin' in it. I got to take it, for 

 I can't turn back. Come, now, is it a 

 bargain hands off and no scrap?" 



It is very sure that Gringo could 

 see in this nothing but a human mak- 

 ing queer, unmenacing, monotonous 

 sounds, so giving a final "Gr-u-ph," 

 the Bear blinked his eyes, rose to his 

 feet and strode down the bank, and 

 the cowboy forced his unwilling horse 

 to and past the place. 



" Wall, wall/' he chuckled, " I never 

 knowed it to fail. Thar 's whar most 

 B'ars is alike." 



If Gringo had been able to think 

 clearly, he might have said: "This 

 surely is a new kind of man." 



