big round stomach that he took away. I went to 

 meet him. He was interested in the food question, 

 and long before he reached me he was dancing 

 about with outstretched arms. 



In the midst of this performance it occurred to 

 him that if he wanted anything to eat he must 

 hurry to me. So he checked his first impulse and 

 started to carry his second into instant effect. 

 These incomplete proceedings interrupted and 

 tripped each other three or four times and mixed 

 themselves together. Apparently an entangled 

 mental process followed my appearance. Though 

 he tumbled about in comic confusion while trying 

 to do two things at once, it was evident through it all 

 that his central idea was to get something to eat. 



One September we went camping out in Wild 

 Basin, Johnny and Jenny racing along as happy as 

 two boys. Sometimes they were ahead of me, some- 

 times behind ; occasionally they stopped to wrestle 

 and box. At night they lay close to me beside the 

 camp-fire. Often I used one of them for a pillow, 

 and more than once I awoke to find that they were 

 using me for one. 



As we were climbing along the top of a moraine, 

 a black bear and her two cubs came within perhaps 

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