I think he is quieter, and if you will stand by him and talk to him--he knows you ?" "Oh yes," she answered, "and I can feed him with grass.

But why do you want to tie him?
What are you going to do ?" As she spoke she brought me the tie strap, and I proceeded to fasten the horse to a tree.
"Now, then," said I, "I must go and get the bear and take him away somewhere out of sight.

It will never do to leave him there.

Some other horse might be coming along." "You get the bear!" she said, surprised.
"Yes," I answered; "he is my bear, and--" She stepped back, her eyes expanded and her lower jaw dropped.

"_Your_ bear!" she cried, and with that her glance seemed to run all over me as if she were trying to find some resemblance to a man who exhibited a bear.
"Yes," I replied; "I left him there while I went to ask my way.