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and look pleasant and pose like a lot of girl 

 graduates. 



Don't tell me that the army is any good. Ever 

 since they excluded me from the intimate associa- 

 tion of those most delightful bears, and let the 

 dishwasher's friends in, I am against the whole 

 thing. I do not think that the simple fact that I 

 was not a lifelong friend of the fourth assistant 

 cook, or the onion peeler or some other kitchen 

 dignitary, is any cause for a bear to bite me. I 

 think I would have been just as safe out there as 

 the first lady of the bedchambers, or the assistant 

 custodian of the cuspidors. 



Possibly nowhere else in the Park, however, 

 jesting aside, do you have so near a view of 

 bruin. Nowhere else is there such a variety or so 

 interesting a spectacle. There are no grizzlies, 

 but every other variety in the Park, of every age 

 and sex, is to be seen here; and, even with all the 

 soldier warnings, you are allowed to get within 

 easy snap shot of them. 



The boat company on the lake has a whole 

 fleet of row boats and launches, and on a Sunday 

 morning Spot and Chuck and I went fishing. 



