Foam—A Razor-Backed Hog 
Lizette maintains that Foam ceased teasing the 
lamb and the duck from that time. He certainly 
ceased soon after, for the duck was grown up and 
soon waddled off to join his web-footed kinsmen on 
the pool, and he and the lamb parted company 
in an unexpected manner. 
A BAD OLD BEAR 
Just as there are rogues among Elephants, idlers 
among Beavers, and mangy man-eaters among 
Tigers, so there are outlaws among Bears—creatures 
at war with all the world; perverted brutes that 
find pleasure chiefly in destruction, making them- 
selves known by their evil deeds, and in the end 
making enemies strong enough to turn and rend 
them. The Kogar’s Creek Bear was one of these 
cruel ones. So far as any one knows he never had 
any family of his own, but roamed into the Kogar’s 
Creek woods probably because his own kind drove 
him out of their own country in the mountains. So 
he drifted into Mayo Valley, where Bears were 
scarce, and wandered about doing all the mischief 
he could, smashing down fences, little sheds, or field 
crops that he could not eat, for the pleasure of 
destroying. Most Bears eat chiefly vegetable food, 
preferring berries and roots; some Bears eat a little 
of all kinds, but Kogar’s had such a perverted taste = : 4 i 
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