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older, and adopted the Golden Rule as her moral 

 code; but this was a sad mistake on the bear's 

 part. There perhaps never was a more gentle, 

 better-hearted bear than Mr. Dooley, the great 

 grizzly of Yellowstone Park. Far better would it 

 have been for the lady bear with a gentleman's 

 name if she had adhered closely to the traditions 

 of her race and developed into a surly, gruff, dan- 

 gerous old girl, in place of the gentle, sweet-tem- 

 pered creature she really made of herself. True, 

 she would not have been petted and fed with 

 prunes and sweetmeats, but she would have been 

 much happier than she now is, poor thing! 



The trouble with Mr. Dooley is that she made 

 the mistake of applying the Golden Rule to human 

 beings, and the human beings did not appreciate 

 the generous nature of the bear. 



Human beings are all right when they preach 

 and when they write, but their brothers in fur will 

 do well not to trust to the sincerity of the two- 

 legged creatures' sentiments. 



Because the gentle grizzly of Yellowstone Park 

 was guileless and unsuspicious, she (Mr. Dooley) 

 was led into captivity, and is now imprisoned in 

 a narrow iron-barred cell in the Washington Zoo. 



And when the readers visit Washington, and see 

 a big grizzly with its tongue lolling out of its 

 mouth, and a far-away look in its eyes, they may 

 know that it is the lady bear, known as Mr. 

 Dooley, of Yellowstone Park, and that the poor 

 girl is dreaming of her free life in the mountains, 



