The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-31

bear one day made her appearance, to- of mine who had captured it during a recent bear hunt. Among the sports late Admiral Hobart Pasha. Young Miss Bruin usually behaved in a most we were on the coast of Asia Minor
 and part of the crew had gone ashore on duty, their allowance of daily grog
 had been placed in a small breaker
 (casl) on the quarter deck to await
 their return. When no one was look
 ing, our young bear sniffed the groS, and pulling out the bung, tilted DOT
 ton of the breakers alcoholic contents
 down her throat The effect was as
 tonishng. She flew up and down and
 across the deck quite mad with drink.
 Those on deck had to jump into the
 rigging out of the way of her savage
 charges, She ended the bout by lying
 down on her back, biting, kicking and
 scratching; and it was some time be- fore a lasso was thrown, over her head,
 and she was tied up until sober.
 When H M $. B. - was at Thra-
 pia, Miss Bear went overheard for her
 morning dip The ship was moored
 quite close to the shore, whereon stood
 a lamp-post This being a novelty in
 our pets experience, she landed, and
 moment afterwards was up to the top
 of it inspecting its contents. A Turk
 ish boy. never before having seen q
 bear on top of a lamp-post, chucked a
 stone at her, This was unbearable to her ladyship; she was down that lamp
 post and after that Iboy in a jiffy. The boy rushed away bellowing-the bear
 gayly cantering after him Presently
 there arose fearful hubbub in the vil- lage, and a Turkish policeman came on board the ship to say "the bear was at tachlng and devastating the whole city" A couple of bluejackets were landed, and very soon brought our pet
 back to her proper ship.
 At the Dardanelles we met one of the iron-clads, and as they also had bear on board, our captain made a signal to her senior officer, 'Is bear ship-visiting allowed?" The request having been
 granted, Mile. Bruin stepped up the ladder on to the iron-clad's quarter deck. The strange bear, unluckily for him, made courteous gesture with his paw. What that gesture really meant in bear language we knew not, but the effect was electric. Amid shouts of laughter from the crews of both ships our young lady chased him round and round his own ship-upon the ham, mock nettings and round the poop and forecaStle, until he was forced to take shelter from her wrath below in the gunners' storeroom.
 When we were lying at Port Said, a large Peninsula and Oriental steamer was moored head and stern close be- hind us. It was an intensely hot af- ternoon, and our bear was as usual swimming round the ship. When she passed astern, she looked round at the | Peninsula and Oriental ship, and, see | ing no signs of life on board, thought, as we supposed, that it was a good op- portunity to see what sort of a craft
 the liner was. So, instead of passing 1 tplilu puI Sillp, nIC o"cillI SbACihS'AN'S | the other. and clambering up the ac- l commodation ladder, had a look round. i The only object visible was the Penin- l sula and Oriental doctor, lying full | length on Chinese wicker chair. The | bear crept up quietly to the sleeping | doctor, placed her nose and then her back under the chair, gave one hoist, and capsized the doctor, chair and all.
 Suddenly waking up and rubbing his | eyes, and giving good swear, the doc l tor saw the beast, and picking himself
 up, ran like a nigger along the deck,
 the bear after him. However, he man.
 aged to reach his cabin door, and | slammed and locked it. Meanwhile our | chief boatswain's mate had got into
 our dinghy, hurried on board, coliared the bear and brought her back smiling
 We kept our bear until she was fully grown up and too big for a small ship