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dense forest. It was not supposed to be good
for him to wander about in the forest with all
its temptations, it was better to be on the safe
side. He was also a bad sailor and had once
taken such a fright at a sudden gust of wind
that he had upset the boat and he and his
mistress had had to swim to the shore. Now he
knew quite well what it meant when his mistress
put him on the chain on Sundays, with a friendly
tap on his head and the promise of an apple on
her return if he had been good during her absence.
He was sorry but resigned, like a good dog when
his mistress tells him he cannot come with her
for a walk. One Sunday when the lady had
chained him up as usual and was about half-way
through the forest, she suddenly thought she
heard the cracking of a tree-branch on the winding
foot-path behind her. She looked back and was
horrified to see the bear coming along full-speed.
Bears look as if they move along quite slowly
but they shuffle along much faster than a trotting
horse. In a minute he had joined her, panting
and sniffing, to take up his usual place,
dog-fashion, at her heels. The lady was very angry,
she was already late for luncheon, there was no
time to take him back home, she did not want
him to come with her, and it was besides very
naughty of him to have disobeyed her and
broken away from his chain. She ordered him
in her severest voice to go back at once, menacing
him with her parasol. He stopped a moment
and looked at her with his cunning eyes, but did
not want to go back and kept on sniffing at her.
When the lady saw that he had even lost his
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