MAINLY ABOUT BEARS 



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NLY ABOUT BEARS 



EFORE my visit to the Yellow- 

 stone, I had known, intimately, 

 but one bear. Now I am on 

 speaking terms with more than 

 a hundred of the most refined, 

 intelligent and cultivated bears 

 in the world. Hence the title of this book. They 

 are real 'Agents," everyone of them, and you shall 

 hear all about their gentness if you will but listen. 

 I have mentioned that I once knew a bear, Mose 

 Lewis by name. To know him was to love him. 

 To know him was a liberal education in bearness. 

 Such was his nature, so comprehensive, so uni- 

 versal, such his intelligence, that he might well 

 pass as the model of all bears. Long association 

 with me had not marred his bear nature nor 

 spoiled him. He remained till the last a bear — 



