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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN.
up to talk bear-talk and to act just as
if he were a real, young bear. When
several years had passedvthe old bear
came running to the tree in great
alarm "one day and cried out: "A
hunter is coming. He means to chop
down the tree!"
True enough, next day a dog ran up
barking, and the hunter appeared and
began to chop down the tree which
had so long been the boy's home.
The old bear and her two cubs were
caught and killed but the boy hid him
self deep in the hollow of the tree.
Thinking that possibly there might
be another bear concealed in the hol
low, the hunter "looked in, and heard
the boy making a noise exactly like a
young bear.
The hunter reached in and caught
the boy, but was so astonished when
he hauled him out to see that he was
a human being that, instead of killing
him, he took him to his wigwam,
tamed him and taught him to talk
like a man for at first the boy could
only talk bear-talk.
The boy married 'a daughter of the
hunter who had caught him in the
hollow tree, and became a great hunt
er himself, but he would never go
hunting bears.
His mother-in-law used to be angry
with him arid say: "Why do you not
sometimes bring home a bear as all
the other hunters do?".
- But the boy declared that the bears
were his own people and he would
never kill them.
When he went to the woods he used
to call the bears to him and they
would talk together, but he never
harmed them. All the time the mo-.
ther-in-law wanted more and more to
have bear meat for dinner and kept
asking her son-in-law to bring her
some, saying that she would die if she
did not have that sort of food.
Finally, one day, the young man
went to the forest and killed a bear
just to please her, but as he was com
ing home he stumbled and fell upon a
sharp-pointed stick, which wounded
him so that he died.
Thus was he punished for his ingrat
itude to the animals which had made
him their brother and kept him alive
when his own people, cast him off.
Sunday Oregonian.
Tfie Bo Wfio D are.
Show me the boy who dares to do right,
Though his comrades may laugh and
sneer.
I'll show you a boy who with all his might
will stand his ground without fear.
Show me the boy who dares to say no
When his honor is put to the test,
I'll show you a boy who is going to row
His canoe ahead of the rest.
Show me the boy that's good to the old,
To his mother is tender and kind,
I'll show you a boy with a heart of gold
And his equal hard to find.
Show me a boy that loves the truth
And cares for his books and school,
I'll show you a boy a boy, forsooth,
That a nation may some day rule.
Dare to do right! Dare to say no!
And against all wrong raise your hand;
In manhood you reap what in youth you
sow,
And be honored by all the land.
Selected.
There is no easier way in the world
for one to lose a good name than U
have it engrossed on the handle of an
umbrella.---Ex.