months. I was following mechanically, 

 guiding Blondey's feet among the 

 cobblestones, for nature had paved the 

 P place very badly, without much thought 

 D for anything beyond the pleasure of 

 P being alive, when the Host suddenly 

 o stopped and pointed to the ground. 

 There I made out the track of a huge 

 bear going the way we were, and be- 

 yond was another, and another. Then 

 they disappeared like a row of post- 

 holes into the distance. The Host said 

 there was only one bear in that region 

 that could make a track like that; in 

 spite of the fact that this was beyond 

 his range, it must be Meeteetsee Wahb. 

 He got off his horse and measured the 

 track Yes, the hind foot tracked four- 

 teen inches. What a hole in the ground 

 it looked ! 



The Host said the maker of it was 



