their feet, they walked down the bank to a pool, where the old one's
keen eye caught sight of a number of Buffalo-fish basking on the bottom.
The water was very low, mere pebbly rapids between these deep holes, so
Mammy said to the little ones:

"Now you all sit there on the bank and learn something new."

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First she went to the lower end of the pool and stirred up a cloud of
mud which hung in the still water, and sent a long tail floating like a
curtain over the rapids just below. Then she went quietly round by land,
and sprang into the upper end of the pool with all the noise she could.
The fish had crowded to that end, but this sudden attack sent them off
in a panic, and they dashed blindly into the mud-cloud. Out of fifty
fish there is always a good chance of some being fools, and half a dozen
of these dashed through the darkened water into the current, and before
they knew it they were struggling over the shingly shallow. The old
Grizzly jerked them out to the bank, and the little ones rushed noisily
on these funny, short snakes that could not get away, and gobbled and
gorged till their little bellies looked like balloons.

They had eaten so much now, and the sun was so hot, that all were quite
sleepy. So the Mother-bear led them to a quiet little nook, and as soon
as she lay down, though they were puffing with heat, they all snuggled
around her and went to sleep, with their little brown paws curled in,
and their little black noses tucked into their wool as though it were a
very cold day.

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