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with ropes and tried to keep it right side 

 up. 



Four days on a "go-devil" is no pleasure 

 excursion, even for a tough grizzly, and 

 when the Monarch was released from his 

 uncomfortable vehicle, at the foot of the 

 mountain, he seemed glad to get a chance 

 to stretch himself and rest. For nearly 

 a week he was left free of all fetters ex- 

 cept the chain on his neck and the rope 

 around his body, and he spent his days in 

 slumber and his nights eating and digging 

 a great hole in the ground. Having con- 

 vinced himself that he could neither break 

 his chain nor bite it in .two, he accepted 

 the situation with surly resignation and 

 asked only to be let alone and fed de- 

 cently. 



While the bear was recuperating and 

 becoming reconciled to what couldn't be 

 helped, a cage was being built of Oregon 

 pine lumber with an iron-barred door, and 

 when it was finished he was dragged into 

 it by the heels. As soon as he saw the 



