months. I was following mechanically, 

 guiding Blondey's feet among the 

 cobblestones, for nature had paved the 

 place very badly, without much thought 

 for anything beyond the pleasure of 

 being alive, when the Host suddenly 

 stopped and pointed to the ground. 

 There I made out the track of a huge 

 bear going the way we were, and be- 

 yond was another, and another. Then 

 they disappeared like a row of post- 

 holes into the distance. The Host said 

 there was only one bear in that region 

 that could make a track like that; in 

 spite of the fact that this was beyond 

 his range, it must be Meeteetsee Wahb. 

 He got off his horse and measured the 

 track Yes, the hind foot tracked four- 

 teen inches. What a hole in the ground 

 it looked ! 



The Host said the maker of it was 



