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varied occasionally by a cunning feint to mis- 

 lead the foe. So he went dashing from tree to 

 tree and climbing each to its very top, although 

 it might be but ten feet from the last, till 

 he disappeared in the woods. After, perhaps, 

 ten minutes, his voice again came floating 

 on the breeze, the habitual querulous whin- 

 ing which told me he had found his mother 

 and had resumed his customary appeal to her 

 sympathy. 



VI 



It is quite a common thing for Bears to spank 

 their cubs when they need it, and if Grumpy 

 had disciplined Johnny this way, it would have 

 saved them both a deal of worry. 



Perhaps not a day passed, that summer, with- 

 out Grumpy getting into trouble on Johnny's 

 account. But of all these numerous occasions 

 the most ignominious was shortly after the af- 

 fair with the Grizzly. 



I first heard the story from three bronzed 

 mountaineers. As they were very sensitive 

 about having their word doubted, and very 

 good shots with the revolver, I believed every 



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