seasons. Once only did he really behave ill, and that was the first
season he appeared, before he fully knew the ways of the Park.

He wandered over to the hotel, one day, and in at the front door. In
the hall he reared up his eight feet of stature as the guests fled in
terror; then he went into the clerk's office. The man said: "All right;
if you need this office more than I do, you can have it," and leaping
over the counter, locked himself in the telegraph-office, to wire the
superintendent of the Park: "Old Grizzly in the office now, seems to
want to run hotel; may we shoot?"

The reply came: "No shooting allowed in Park; use the hose." Which they
did, and, wholly taken by surprise, the Bear leaped over the counter
too, and ambled out the back way, with a heavy _thud-thudding_ of his
feet, and a rattling of his claws on the floor. He passed through the
kitchen as he went, and, picking up a quarter of beef, took it along.

This was the only time he was known to do ill, though on one occasion
he was led into a breach of the peace by another Bear. This was a large
she-Blackbear and a noted mischief-maker. She had a wretched, sickly cub
that she was very proud of--so proud that she went out of her way to
seek trouble on his behalf. And he, like all spoiled children, was the
cause of much bad feeling. She was so big and fierce that she could
bully all the other Blackbears, but when she tried to drive off old Wahb
she received a pat from his paw that sent her tumbling like a football.
He followed her up, and would have killed her, for she had broken the
peace of the Park, but she escaped by climbing a tree, from the top of
which her miserable little cub was apprehensively squealing at the pitch
of his voice. So the affair was ended; in future the Blackbear kept
out of Wahb's way, and he won the reputation of being a peaceable,