Once only the hunters saw the pair 

 a momentary glimpse of a Bear so 

 huge they half believed Tampico's tale, 

 and a Bear of lesser size in fur that 

 rolled and rippled in the sun with 

 brown and silver lights. 



"Oh, ain't that just the beautiful- 

 est thing that ever walked ! " and both 

 the hunters gazed as she strode from 

 view in the chaparral. It was only a 

 neck of the thicket; they both must 

 reappear in a minute at the other side, 

 and the men prepared to fire; but for 

 some incomprehensible reason the two 

 did not appear again. They never quit 

 the cover, and had wandered far away 

 before the hunters knew it, and were 

 seen of them no more. 



But Faco Tampico saw them. He 

 was visiting his brother with the sheep, 

 and hunting in the foot-hills to the east- 

 ward, in hopes of getting a deer, his 



