CHAPTER III. 



CELEBRATED BEARS. 



Pete, Russian Brown Bear ; Caesar, Black 

 Bear ; Snow, Polar Bear ; Czar, Syrian 

 Bear. 



IN the Buffalo Zoo some few years ago 

 there were two Russian brown bears, both 

 extremely fine specimens and both wonder- 

 fully gentle and good tempered. The following 

 story is another instance, I think, of how very 

 uncertain the dispositions of the wild animals 

 are and how some trivial incident will often 

 not only bring out all their viciousness and 

 savagery, but permanently alter their dis- 

 position. 



One spring Dr. Crandall, the Superin- 

 tendent, had a gang of iron wire fencers put- 

 ting a six-foot fence round the top of the 

 bear pit in place of the three-foot fence which 

 had been there when he took charge of the 



