Chapter XVII 
THE BEAR: Monarch of the Wild 
One afternoon as the Blair car and trailer were 
rolling smoothly along with Uncle Ely driving, he 
began to sing: 
“Oh Lawd, ef you cain’t help dis nigger, 
Please don’ you help dat grizzly bar!” 
At once Father joined in. They were singing in 
Negro dialect, a song in story about a colored man 
