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offering, and many of them have become so 

 well known to the Hotel men that they have 

 received names suggested by their looks or 

 ways. Slim Jim was a very long-legged thin 

 Blackbear ; Snuffy was a Blackbear that looked 

 as though he had been singed ; Fatty was a 

 very fat, lazy Bear that always lay down to eat ; 

 the Twins were two half-grown, ragged speci- 

 mens that always came and went together. But 

 Grumpy and Little Johnny were the best known 

 of them- all. 



Grumpy was the biggest and fiercest of the 

 Blackbears, and Johnny, apparently her only 

 son, was a peculiarly tiresome little cub, for he 

 seemed never to cease either grumbling or 

 whining. This probably meant that he was 

 sick, for a healthy little Bear does not grumble 

 all the time, any more than a healthy child. 

 And indeed Johnny looked sick ; he was the 

 most miserable specimen in the Park. His 

 whole appearance suggested dyspepsia ; and 

 this I quite understood when I saw the awful 

 mixtures he would eat at that garbage-heap. 

 Anything at all that he fancied he would try. 

 And his mother allowed him to do as he 



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