The San Francisco call., 1898-12-04
oooo oooooooo @ GO GO oc oc 6 co 0 GOLDEN GATE PARK BEARS DAY
BY HELEN JOHNSTON
STOCKTON.

all over the park think That was a very good stiC.- of candy and enjoyed it all right.
 10 a. m.-A tall man all dressed up, came to the cage. He had a nice look ing girl with him. First he read the signboard that tells the people that I am an UrSuS Major. See the bear, Mamie" said he. He growls; that is what Ursus means, and his name is Major" That made me angry. The aust in the cage was dry as powder mousse. This man, monkey and the girl were quite close to the cage, when I turned around and clawed up the dust with both hind feet like a carpet-beat- CT. Dirt and old straw flew all over the white shirt front of the man and spoiled all the ribbons and nice clean dress Of the girl. That gave them all the run that they wanted, and they went awav. while I sat down and laughed until my ribs ached.
 II a. m.-A nice little curly dog, with ribbons braided into his hair, was led by bad boy, who stopped by me and said to the dog, "Sic i'm, Tige." The little dog took this for earnest and ran in between the bars of the cage. Say, that curly dog was the best dessert that I have had for a long time. The boy brought a policeman around to show him his poor doggy. I had taken care of that. There was none of the dog in sight, and as the policeman did not want to come into the cage to dig up the place where I had hidden doggy's bones, he said that the boy had been fooiing him. The boy was birched and went away crying, and I had another laugh. Wasn't that a good dog? I wish that some more would pay me a Yisit-although it is against the rules for dogs to come into the park. That shows how much better is bear than a dog, for the people are so glad of my company that they will not let me get away.
 12 m.-People began to hurry to get out of the park, and I heard them all say something about being in a hurry to get started in time for their Thanks giving dinner. Turkey! They all talked about turkey, and it made me hungry and homesick at once-homesick for life in the mountains, where there is enough wild game all the year through and every day is a good enough turkey day for bear.
 My servant was early, and I suppose that he was in a hurry to go some where. He confded to me that he was going to see his girl. He smelled of bear grease that he had on his hair
 p. m.-I had just finished my after dinner nap when a poor tramp took a look at me. He threw me something hard, and I thought that it must be SoAlStHlHS IIC6 anu cHGNeO II. MdyDc l wasn't the worst-scared bear that ever was when foam began to come out of my mouth. opened my mouth and would have dropped the hard and yell low thing had not a little girl thrown chocolate cream at me just then. I like that kind of candy so much that I jumped to catch it, for fear that it would get into the dirt. While my mouth was opened for the candy the hard and yellow thing slipped down my throat and I swallowed it. That is the good thing to do with soap,'' said the tramp-'throw it to a bear" I declare that I was so sick after that that I could not hold my head up until night. 1 will have some more fun tomorrow.