duly noted; and this process soon began to give the desired insight into
their ways and personalities.

Many unobservant persons think and say that all Negroes, or all
Chinamen, as well as all animals of a kind, look alike. But just as
surely as each human being differs from the next, so surely each animal
is different from its fellow; otherwise how would the old ones know
their mates or the little ones their mother, as they certainly do?
These feasting Bears gave a good illustration of this, for each had its
individuality; no two were quite alike in appearance or in character.

[Illustration]

This curious fact also appeared: I could hear the Woodpeckers pecking
over one hundred yards away in the woods, as well as the Chickadees
chickadeeing, the Blue-jays blue-jaying, and even the Squirrels
scampering across the leafy forest floor; and yet I _did not hear one of
these Bears come_. Their huge, padded feet always went down in exactly
the right [Illustration: But Johnny Wanted to See.] spot to break no
stick, to rustle no leaf, showing how perfectly they had learned the art
of going in silence through the woods.




III


All morning the Bears came and went or wandered near my hiding-place
without discovering me; and, except for one or two brief quarrels, there