United labor bulletin., 1913-11-15
; FROM THE BEARS Paw
BY ANNIE HINRIcHsEN.

Gibraltar and are partners. Glib.
raltar is dancing bear. Some people
might say 1 am Gibraltar's owner, but
between him and me there's never
been a question of master and beast.
We're partners, share and share alike.
We walk from town to town. We
have enough to eat. and there is no
sweeter sleep than the sleep one gets
under the stars.
One day as Gibraltar and / were
strolling along q country lane we
saw girl coming toward us. She
stopped little way and called:
will your bear hurt me?"
mo, indeed. miss" says I. Hes
as gentle as kitten"
She came up to US and my! she
was pretty. Her eyes were like the
sky and her cheeks were like the
wild roses in the hedges.
.'Will he mind IL 1 pat him." she
asked.
She patted old Gibraltar's head
and pulled his ears. 81 do love bears"
she said What's his manner"
l told her and she said that was a
beautiful name for a bear.
/ made him dance and she sat down
by the road and laughed and clapped
her hands.
After awhile she said she must go.
She dropped dollar in my money
basket and went her way.
1t was about sundown and we
stopped at the first haystack and ate
our supper and went to sleep.
In the night 1 woke up. There
.il ~ ha
haystack. A woman was crying.
Then man said he was sorry; that
he couldn't help it; he didn't love her
any more; change was the law of ma
ture and she must accept conditions.
She said something about the love
of the old days and the claim 1t gave
her. That seemed to make the fellow
tired and he said he didn't care for
hash love He asked her to give him
something couldn't hear what-and
she said she wouldn't, it was hers and
gave little scream.
"Oh. you brute" she said. You've
broken the chain and stolen it."
That woke Gibraltar and he groan-
ed. The man came around the hay.
stack. What are you doing here?"
he asked.
"Sleepin'." / says.
Get out" says he. This isn't
hoboes' roost"
Next morning when / woke up ]
saw we were near a house and we
ambled toward 1t looking for a break.
fast II was a big house with a long
porch in front of IL and on the porch
were lot of people. II wasn't farm
house. as / had supposed. but some
swells summer cottage. and Gibraltar
and had butted into a house party.
When they saw us they called to us
to come to the porch. they wanted Glib
raltar 10 dance.
On the lowest step sat my little sun
shine lady and beside her was the
/ fellow l had seen the night before
| Near them was a tall woman with
| yellow hair
After Gibraltar had done his stunts
passed the money basket The last
| person It came to was the fellow be
side the sunshine lady and he was sc
busy talking to her that he never
looked at what he pulled out of his
pocket and threw into the basket
/ hung the basket on Gibraltar's
paw and told him to make a bow
lie DoWeu SO low tnat the basket sic
OF and fell at the sunshine lady's
feet. There was something in 1t which
didn't look like money and she picked
It up.
1t was a gold locket about the size
of half dollar. She opened 1t, and
there was the fellows picture and:
TO Beatrice, from George"
She snapped the locket shut and
handed it TO the tall woman. This
is yours, think" she said.
The man looked as IL he wanted to
smash things, Gibraltar and me par
ticularly.
The little sunshine lady put her
hands in Gibraltar's fur and shook his
big head. Gibraltar" she said, you
have done a great deal for me today
and l thank you. old fellow. Even
out of the paws of bears"
She kind o. choked then and took
up Gibraltar's chain and we went OF