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pursued, or thinks he is pursued, he always 

 tries, if he knows himself, to run down hill. 

 A man can escape almost any bear by run- 

 ning down hill, except this little fel/ow 

 along the foothills by the Mexican seas. 

 You see, he has good bear sense, like the 

 rest of the bear family, and gets along 

 without regard to legs of any sort, some 

 times. 



This boy that I am going to tell about 

 was going to school on the Mexican side 

 of the line between the two republics, near 

 San Diego, California, when a she bear 

 which had lost her cub caught sight of the 

 boys at play down at the bottom of a high, 

 steep hill, and she rolled for them, rolled 

 right among the little, half-naked fellows, 

 and knocked numbers of them down. But 

 before she could get the dust out of her 

 eyes and get up, this boy jumped on her 

 and killed her with his knife. 



The governor remembered the boy for his 

 pluck and presence of mind and he was 



