You remember ?" "An' they were a week old, Jimmy.

An' the mother weighed eight hundred pounds." For a few moments they both puffed silently on their pipes.
"Almost--inconceivable," said Langdon then.

"And yet it's true.

And it isn't a freak of nature, Bruce--it's simply a result of Nature's far-sightedness.

If the cubs were as large comparatively as a house-cat's kittens the mother-bear could not sustain them during those weeks when she eats and drinks nothing herself.