"Eat him, Bruin," laughed Siegfried, as Mimi trembled with fear.

The bear growled at Mimi.

"Oh! keep him off!" gasped Mimi.

"I shall," said Siegfried, "if you will promise to answer all I ask."

[Illustration: "EAT HIM, BRUIN," LAUGHED SIEGFRIED]

"I will! I will! I will tell you anything you want to know," stammered
Mimi.

Siegfried untied the rope.

"Good-bye, Bruin," he said, as he gave him a friendly slap on the back,
and the big bear trotted off to the woods.


SIEGFRIED AND MIMI

Mimi and Siegfried sat down upon the rocks in the cave, and Mimi told
how he had found the baby in the woods and how he had brought him to
the cave.

Mimi put in many words of how much Siegfried owed for all this care and
trouble.

"Thou givest me always trouble and pain,