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found asleep in his kennel between his two paws.
The three Lapland dogs loved to play all sorts
of games with him, pull his ears and his stump
of a tail and tease him in every way, but he did
not mind it in the least. He had never tasted
meat, he ate the same food as the dogs and often
out of the same plate, bread, porridge, potatoes,
cabbages, turnips. He had a fine appetite, but
his friend the cook saw to it that he got his fill.
Bears are vegetarians if they have a chance,
fruit is what they like the best. In the autumn
he used to sit and look with wistful eyes at the
ripening apples in the orchard and in his young
days he had been sometimes unable to resist
the temptation to climb the tree and help
himself to a handful of them. Bears look clumsy
and slow in their movements, but try a bear
with an apple-tree and you will soon find out
that he can easily beat any school-boy at that
game. Now he had learnt that it was against
the law, but he kept his small eyes wide-open
for any apples that fell to the ground. There
had also been some difficulties about the
beehives; he had been punished for this by being
put on the chain for two days with a bleeding
nose and he had never done it again. Otherwise
he was never put on the chain except for the
night and quite rightly so, for a bear, like a dog,
is apt to get somewhat ill-tempered if kept on
the chain, and no wonder. He was also put on
the chain on Sundays when his mistress went to
spend the afternoon with her married sister who
lived in a solitary house on the other side of the
mountain-lake, a good hour’s walk through the
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