The Prescott daily news., 1914-06-30
FROM THE BEARS PAW
By ANNIE HlNRlcHSEN.

GtDraltar and l are partners Gih- raltar is a dancing bear Some peopla might say am Gibraltar's owner but between him and me there's never been 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 nc sweeter sleep than the sleep one gets ,nGer the stars.
 One day as Gibraltar and were slrolling along a country lane we saw girl coming toward, us. She stopped a little way and called: "Will your bear hurt mel"
 No, indeed miss.' says l. Hes as gentle as a 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 if l pat him?" she asked.
 She patted old Gibraltars held and pulled his ears. 'I do love bears." she said. Whats his name?"
 l told her and she said that Was & beautiful name for a bear.
 I made him dance and she sat down by the road and laughed and clapped her hands
 After awhile she said she must so She dropped dollar in my money basket ard went her way.
 It was about sundown and we stopped at the fir5t haystack and ate our supper and went to sleep
 In the night 1 woke up. There were people on the other side of the taystack. A woman was crying. Then a man said he was sorry; that he couldn't help it; he didn't leye her any more; change was the law ot'2a. ture and she must accept conditiona
 She said something about the love of the old days and the claim it gave her. That seemed to make the fellcw tired and he said he didn't care for hash love. He asked her to give him something-I couldn't hear what-an6 gave little scream.
 "Oh, you brute" she said. You've broken the chain and stolen it."
 That woke Gibraltar and he gruat cd, The man came around the hay htack. What are you doing here!" he asked
 "Sleepir'." | nays.
 Get out" says he. "This isn't a boboes' rocst."
 Next mol ming when I woke up saw We were near house and we ambled toward it looking for a break. fast. It was a big house with a long porch in front of it and on the porch were lot of people It wasn't a farm house. as had supposed, but some swells summer cottage. and Gibraltar and had butted into house party.
 When they saw us they called to Us to come to the porch. they wanted Gib- r7ltar to dance.
 On the lowest step sat my little sdn. shine lady and beside her was the fellow had seen the night before. Near them was a tall woman with yellow hair.
 After Gibraltar had done his stunt7 I passed the money basket The last person it came to was the fellow be side the sunshine lady and he was so busy talking to her that he never looked at what he pulled out of his pocket and threw into the basket.
 l hung the basket on Gibraltars paw and told him to make 9 bow He bowed so low that the basket slid off and fell at the sunshine ladys feet There was something in it which didn't look like money and she picked 1t up
 It was a gold locket about the size of half dollar. She opened 1t, and there was the fellows picture and: ITO Beatrice, from George
 She snapped the locket shut ana handed it to the tall woman. Tals is yours, think she said.
 The man looked as if he wanted to smash things, Gibraltar and me par ticularly.
 The little sunshine lady put her hands in Gibraltars fur and shook his big head. Gibraltar" she said, you have done q great deal for me today and I thank you. old fellow. Even out of the paws of bears"
 She kind O choked then and tooh up Gihraltar's chain and we went OH
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