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and appears in the dock at police-courts. He associates with low companions—unclean-look- ing foreigners—who bang him sorely about the
ribs with sticks to make him dance. They keep him badly, and he grows bony and mangy. He retaliates upon them by getting loose, frightening people, and breaking things, Then, when he is brought before a magistrate, they have to pay his fine. Some-
times they get into prison over
him. The end is always the same—a bear who begins by
assoclating with these people always turns up at the police - court before long, and once there, he comes again and again—just in the manner of the old offenders at Marlborough-
J bears licked their shape. If there be anything in this, all the bears in my acquaintance came of very negligent motkers—or nerhaps, of mothers who tried the other sort of licking. They have strength, sagacity, stuy Tity, gloom, cheerfulness, teeth, hair, claws, position, magnitude, and big feet ; but nothing at all Tike shape. This is why they are able to indulge in such a rich variety of atti-
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IN THE POLICE-COURT street. IKven in the innocent old times, when Bidpai wrote (or plagiarised) his fables, association with man made a fool of a bear. Witness the fable of the gardener’s bear, who, zedlous about a fly on his master’s face, brought a paw upon it with all his force, and knocked off an indispensable piece of the worthy gardener’s head. There 13 nothing whatever recorded — agamst that gardener's char- acter ; he probably lived a most cxemplary life, and won prizes at all the prehistoric horticultural shows 1n India—although it might
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