Johnny Bear 



all Negroes, or all Chinamen, as well as all ani- 

 mals of a kind, look alike. But just as surely 

 as each human being differs from the next, so 

 surely each animal is different from its fellow ; 

 otherwise how would the old ones know their 

 mates or the little ones their mother, as they 

 certainly do? These feasting Bears gave a 

 good illustration of this, for each had its indi- 

 viduality ; no two were quite alike in appear- 

 ance or in character. 



This curious fact also appeared : I could hear 

 the Woodpeckers pecking over one hundred 

 yards away in the woods, as well as the Chicka- 

 dees chickadeeing, the Blue-jays blue-jaying, 

 and even the Squirrels scampering across the 

 leafy forest floor ; and yet I did not hear one of 

 these Bears come. Their huge, padded feet 

 always went down in exactly the right spot to 

 break no stick, to rustle no leaf, showing how 

 perfectly they had learned the art of going in 

 silence through the woods. 



Ill 



All morning the Bears came and went or 

 wandered near my hiding-place without dis- 



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