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46 FABLED STORIES FROM THE ZOO.
" Who could have thought that the Russian
bears were so gallant ? " said the grizzly bear
from America ; " now, if that had been
American bears,—for in no country in the whole world
is there such politeness shown to women as in
America-"
" Don’t interrupt the story," called out the
other bears; "you will have your say
afterwards."
" Oh, all right! very well," muttered the
American bear sulkily, and turned himself
annoyed to the wall of his den.
" I ate it all, to show how I relished it,"
continued Nahley, " and kept on singing to myself
as I retired, so that they should hear me as I
went away, and that they might see in return
that they had nothing to fear from me.
However, I did not go far, but seated myself on
an adjacent hill, and watched how the lights of
the Christmas tree were gradually put out, and
how even the flickering light from the
yule-log died away, until at last all was dark and
quiet in the little hut Were they thinking of
me ? Yes, assuredly their thoughts would all
be about their strange visitor on
Christmas-eve. The father would doze with the gun by
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