

Johnny Bear 



sight I wished from that bush, as it was seventy- 

 five yards from the garbage-pile. There was 

 none nearer ; so I did the only thing left to do : 

 I went to the garbage-pile itself, and, digging a 

 hole big enough to hide in, remained there all 

 day long, with cabbage-stalks, old potato-peel- 

 ings, tomato-cans, and carrion piled up in odor- 

 ous heaps around me. Notwithstanding the 

 opinions of countless flies, it was not an attrac- 

 tive place. Indeed, it was so unfragrant that 

 at night, when I returned to the Hotel, I was 

 not allowed to come in until after I had 

 changed my clothes in the woods. 



It had been a trying ordeal, but I surely did 

 see Bears that day. If I may reckon it a new- 

 Bear each time one came, I must have seen 

 over forty. But of course it was not, for the 

 Bears were coming and going. And yet I am 

 certain of this : there were at least thirteen 

 Bears, for I had thirteen about me at one time. 



All that day I used my sketch-book and 

 journal. Every Bear that came was duly noted ; 

 and this process soon began to give the desired 

 insight into their ways and personalities. 



.Many unobservant persons think and say that 





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