Johnny Bear 



enormous Grizzly Bear. He was a monster ; he 

 looked like a fur-clad omnibus coming through 

 the trees. 



Johnny set up a whine at once and got be- 

 hind his mother. She uttered a deep growl, 

 and all her back hair stood on end. Mine did 

 too, but I kept as still as possible. 



With stately tread the Grizzly came on. His 

 vast shoulders sliding along his sides, and his 

 silvery robe swaying at each tread, like the 

 trappings on an elephant, gave an impression 

 of power that was appalling. 



Johnny began to whine more loudly, and I 

 fully sympathized with him now, though I did 

 not join in. After a moment's hesitation 

 Grumpy turned to her noisy cub and said some- 

 thing that sounded to me like two or three 

 short coughs- Koff Koff Koff. But I ima- 

 gine that she really said : " My child, I think 

 you had better get up that tree, while I go and 

 drive the brute away." 



At any rate, that was what Johnny did, and 

 this what she set out to do. But Johnny had 

 no notion of missing any fun. He wanted to 

 see what was going to happen. So he did not 



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