Johnny Bear 



precaution, however, of climbing from time to 

 time to the very top of a pine-tree lookout 

 to take an observation, while Grumpy stayed 

 below. 



Thus they came close to the kitchen, and 

 there, in the last tree, Johnny's courage as a 

 leader gave out, so he remained aloft and ex- 

 pressed his hankering for tarts in a woe-begone 

 wail. 



It is not likely that Grumpy knew exactly 

 what her son was crying for. But it is sure that 

 as soon as she showed an inclination to go back 

 into the pines, Johnny protested in such an 

 outrageous and heartrending screeching that 

 his mother simply could not leave him, and he 

 showed no sign of coming down to be led away. 



Grumpy herself was fond of plum-jam. The 

 odor was now, of course, very strong and pro- 

 portionately alluring ; so Grumpy followed it 

 somewhat cautiously up to the kitchen door. 



There was nothing surprising about this. 



x • , The rule of " live and let live " is so strictly en- 



" "*V forced in the Park that the Bears often come to 



, the kitchen door for pickings, and on getting 



^^^^ something, they go quietly back to the woods. 



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