Johnny Beat" 



She's mighty onreliable gen'relly, but she's al- 

 ways strictly ugly when Johnny hollers like that." 



" I should much like to get her picture when 

 she comes down," said I. 



"Tell ye what I'll do: I'll stay by on the 

 pony, an' if she goes to bother you I reckon I 

 can keep her off," said the man. 



He accordingly stood by as Grumpy slowly 

 came down from branch to branch, growling 

 and threatening. But when she neared the 

 ground she kept on the far side of the trunk, 

 and finally slipped down and ran into the woods, 

 without the slightest pretence of carrying out 

 any of her dreadful threats. Thus Johnny was 

 again left alone. He climbed up to his old 

 perch and resumed his monotonous whining : 



Wah! Wah/ Wah! (" Oh, dear! Oh, dear! 

 Oh, dear!") 



I got the camera ready, and was arranging de- 

 liberately to take his picture in his favorite and 

 peculiar attitude for threnodic song, when all at 

 once he began craning his neck and yelling, as 

 he had done during the fight. 



I looked where his nose pointed, and here 

 was the Grizzly coming on straight toward me 



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