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latch did not catch as usual. In a moment Bob became aware 

 of this unstable condition. Very innocently he sauntered up 

 to the gate, pushed it open, and walked through into the next 

 den. The keeper was then twenty feet away, but a warning 

 cry from without set him in motion to stop the intruder. 



Having no club to face, Bob quietly ignored the keeper's 

 broom. Paying not the slightest attention to the three inof- 

 fensive bears, Bob fixed his gaze on the Terror, at the far end of 

 the den, then made straight for him. Tommy made a feeble 

 attempt at defense, but Bob seized him by the back, bit him, 

 and savagely shook him as a terrier shakes a rat. The Terror 

 yelled lustily "Murder! Murder! Help!" but none of the other 

 bears made a move for his defense. Bob was there to give Tom- 

 my the punishment that was due him for his general meanness 

 and his insulting behavior. 



The horrified keeper secured his pike-pole, with a stout spike 

 set in the end for defense, and drove the spike into Bob's 

 shoulder. Bob went right on killing the Terror. Again the 

 keeper drove in his goad, and blood flowed freely; but Bob 

 paid not the slightest attention to this severe punishment. 



Then the keeper began to beat the cinnamon over the nose; 

 and that made him yield. He gave the Terror a parting shake, 

 let him go, and with a bloody shoulder deliberately walked out 

 of that den and into his own. The punishment of the Terror 

 went to the full limit, and we think all those bears approved it. 

 In a few hours he died of his injuries. 



Case 8. The Grizzly Bear and the String. One of the 

 best il'ustrations I know of the keenness and originality of a 

 wild bear's mind and senses, is found in Mr. W. H. Wright's ac- 

 count of the grizzly bear he did not catch with an elk bait and 

 two set guns, in the Bitter Root Mountains. This story is 

 related in Chapter VI. 



Case 9. Silver King's Memory of His Capture. At 

 this moment we have a huge polar bear who refuses to forget 

 that he was captured in the water, in Kane Basin, and who now 



