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' SOME HABITS OF INDIA BEARS. 
1 • 
! It was on a frosty,- crisp, early jaunt that I 
first made the acquaintance of the method 
adopted by the female bear for carrying her 
cubs when they are not old enough to walk, 
says a writer to the County Gentleman. It was 
about 4:30 a. m., and just before drawing a 
bead on the bear, who was about fifteen to 
twenty yards below us, I noticed what looked 
like an abnormal growth of hair on the ani¬ 
mal’s shoulders. My shot smashed its off fore¬ 
leg, and my second missed as it made off at a 
good pace. Cutting a corner, and owing to the 
broken limb, we were able to get a broadside 
after a hundred yards’ sprint that reminded us 
of old days at Fettes and Bedford, and down 
she came like a sack. For ’twas she! Mamma 
and two cubs returning home from a fruit and 
grub-hunting expedition, and both the cubs 
were firmly fixed in the long hair on her 
shoulders as she lay! And when she was 
slung, toes up, on a young sapling, to be 
brought to camp, neither cub would leave hold 
nor could they be forced to do so, so they 
journeyed upside down to their new diggings 
—a large packing-case with stout bars. 
But that upside down was not the customary 
mode of traveling affected by all young Rewah 
cubs, as I saw a week later, when, just as I 
was crossing the last belt of jungle before 
reaching our chief camp, I was conscious of 
“something” having been roused from a thick 
bamboo clump to my right, and having disap¬ 
peared down into a small nullah which we had 
just crossed a little higher up. “Reench!” 
hissed old Karim—who was probably about the 
best shikari ever seen in a land famous for the 
breed—and I had just time for a snap-shot at 
a bolting bear thirty yards away. A rotten 
shot, though never a miss. Again my left went 
wrong, and by the time I had reloaded she had 
put about sixty yards between us, but was 
pulling up. Not knowing quite what was be¬ 
yond her I let her have another, and she sub- 
j sided. When we came up to her we found two 
cubs also very much at home on her withers, 
I and she was not dead. 
I After waiting events a few minutes, during 
j which she showed plainly the rest was doing 
her good, my surprise was great to see her 
jisuddenly turn and snap at her family! Forth¬ 
with the two got off her back and made tracks 
j as quick as any lamplighter. The riled mamma, 
and as she showed signs of being annoyed with 
i me and was rather too lively to be altogether 
pleasant, I administered the knock-out blow 
; in the back of the neck, and then we went for 
and caught the cubs, but under no considera¬ 
tion would they cling to mamma’s shoulders 
! again like the other pair had done! Their 
little ursine brains had told them that when 
mamma had used swear words she was not to 
■ be trifled with, and they would have no further 
truck with her. 
i Men who have watched the performance 
assure me that the female carries her young 
; m this fashion until they are too heavy for her 
to support both, when she carries them one at 
; a time. When the one that is being carried 
nas been there long enough she removes him, 
“ necessary, by running him against a tree or 
a rock, and the one that has been walking 
clambers up the long hair of her hind legs and 
takes to his perch like any canary. 
Once, when we had the bear cubs loose about 
camp on an off-day, in an evil moment one of 
tile black sheep of the flock in our possession, 
■or purposes of mutton, elected to put in an 
appearance. It is usually the black sheep that 
cause trouble in this world, and this one was 
no exception, for his appearance when we 
were in rather festive mischievous mood 
caused us to put one of the cubs on his woolly 
Th ere Master Buntie sat and held on for 
all he was worth, while poor Mouton trekked 
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