"'Aunt Sally! Aunt Sally! Looker that big dog!"

"Miss Sally, she turns around, an' what does she see but a big brown
bear--oh, a whackin' big feller!--with his very nose at the open door."

"Oh!" squealed Helen.

"How awful!" cried Belle Tingley.

"A mighty onexpected visitor," chuckled Jerry. "But, if she was
scar't, she warn't plumb stunned in her tracks--no, sir! She gave a
leap for the door and she swung it shut right against Mr. B'ar's
nose. And then she barred it."

"Brave girl," said Mrs. Murchiston.

"I reckon so, ma'am," agreed the guide. "And then she remembered
that Tom and Charlie, the other two boys, were gone down the hill to
a spring for a bucket of fresh water.

"There were two doors to the cabin, directly opposite each other,
and they'd both been open. The spring was reached from the other door
and Miss Sally flew to it and saw the boys just comin' up the hill.

"'Run, boys, run!' she screams. 'Never mind the water! Drop it and
run! There's a b'ar in the yard! Run! Run!'

"And them boys _did_ run, but they held fast to their bucket
and brought most of the water inter the house with 'em. Then Miss
Sally barred that door, too, and they all went to the winder and