Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-11

TN the New York Geological gardens
there is a young Canadian black
II bear that has become very naughty
of late Part of his biography has just
been published. 1t appears that when
the bear was a cub he was farm pet,
was as domesticated as a dog and wan
dered untethered about the yard and all
over the farm. The sort of life he led
and some of the stunts he did are en-
tertainingly written in The Frolics of
My Black Bear Cub" by Mrs. e. II.
Baynes in the March ST. Nicholas. The
article is illustrated by photographs
which show also a tame prairie wolf
and a deer, playfellows and domesti-
Gated companions of the cub Jimmie.
We quote one of the "frolics':
Jimmys faVorte chum and playfel-
low was Romulus, young prairie wolf.
The fact that they were such good
friends was due largely to Jimmy's
good nature, for certainly Romulus
teased him in every possible way. Even
in the matter of food, Jimmy was dis
posed to be generous, and he seldom
resented the attempts of Romulus, or
of Aetaeon, the deer, to take from him
his bread and apples. There was, how
ever, one particular kind of food which
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and that was plum pudding. He would
eat il at any time of the day or night,
whether he was hungry or not, and II
there was any limit to the amount he
would eat, no one ever discovered ii.
No matter how much was given to him
he never seemed to consider the guam
tity sufficient to warrant his sharing 1t
with his playfellows, and if either of
these attempted to force him TO divide
with him the result was fight. Not
that Jimmy was really vicious, but he
gave his companions to understand
that on the subject of plum pudding his
opinion was law. One day, after romp-
ing in the snow all the morning, Jimmy
presented himself at the kitchen win
dow, and several slices of bread were
passed out to him. The cub took them
in his mouth, let them fall to the
ground and continued to peer into the
room.
II believe the little bear just wants
a bit of something sweet" said the
housekeeper and going into the pantry
she soon reappeared with a saucer n
containing a generous amount of plum
pudding. Jimmy took the sapcepan
eagerly in his paws, and sitting up IN
the snow, proceeded TO eat the contents
as quickly as he could. Presently ne
heard an approaching footstep, and
with an apprehensive look upon his
face, drew his head from the saucepan
and looked over his shoulder. 1t was
Actaeon, who had heard the door open.
and was hurrying around in order to
get his share of anything that was GO
ing. But he was a little late, for Jimmy
clasped the saucepan tightly to his
breast, buried his nose in ii and began
to mutter a series of warning Mono
no-nos," which Acateon had learned to
respect. Seeing that he was "out of it,,
the deer uttered a plaintive "ba-a-ah,'
and walked away to nibble some
browse. SO absorbed was the cub that
he did not notice the stealthy approach
of the wolf, who circled around him
several times, then sprang for the ham
die of the saucepan, and pulled II TO
the ground. Jimmy was evidently taken
by surprise, but he held on the rim
of the pan with one paw, and planted
the other paw firmly inside. During
the struggle the pudding was scattered
upon the snaw, and Jimmy turned his
attention to that, leaving T2omulus to
run off with the pan. The wolf, finding
he was not pursued dropped it and re-
turned to torment the cub. But Jimmy
was ready for him thi~ time, and clasp
ing his stout paws about his torment
or's neck, bore him to the ground and
delibertely sat down upon his PROSTATE
body. of course the wolf kicked and
souirmed but this did not in the least
disturb Jimmy, who, looking quite un-
concerned, calmly finished his pudding.