XVI 



|HAT night the great 

 Bear left his lair, one of 

 his many lairs, and, cured 

 of all his wounds, rejoic- 

 ing in the fullness of his 

 mighty strength, he strode toward the 

 plains. His nose, ever alert, reported 

 sheep, a deer, a grouse; men 

 more sheep, some cows, and some 

 calves; a bull a fighting bull and 

 Monarch wheeled in big, rude, Bear- 

 ish joy at the coming battle brunt; 

 but as he hugely hulked from hill to 



