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against the wall to bark. Billy must have been Ludlam's bear. Round at the other side, Jocv, TFanny, and Dolly, the little M: dayan bears, arc certainly not lazy. Delly will turn 1 somersault for you with his head (ves, I mean /zs) in the sawdust, bringing himselt over by ogripping the bars with his feet. Iann\ will do the same thing high up against the bars, climbing 4 somersault, so to spull\ Of course, there 1s no regular Lhmo for this - performance, but neither [Fanny nor Dolly will feel dis- appointed if you contribute a biscuit to the prize fund. . Fanny will find the biscuit with her paw, cven if it be | put out of sight on the Tedge before the partition, | But Michacl-—big Michacl, the great brown Russian . bear, the largest bear in the ])Luc cxcept Samson—doesn't need to trouble to hunt for biscuits. e just opens his mouth, and you throw your contribution in. Now, with most of the bears this is something of a feat of =kill, since vou may cwl\ pitch a little wide ,and fail to score a bull's-cye. But when Michacl's mmuth opens—lct us call him the Grand Duke Michael, by the bye—when the Gmnd Duke's mouth

P of those other b)]lctll bears | that ate the forty-two rude bovs who annoyed I2lisha. T have some- times wondered whether these bears, hearing mention of a bald hecad, had aroused in them any perzonal feeling m regard to bear's- greasc. DBut, on con- j sideration, I scarcely

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having been taught by the bearward, Godfrey. But she will only dance when she feels “so dispoged,” and never if asked, which is ungrateful to Godfrey, who has taken pains with her education, and who managed bears long before her grandmother was born, e TR and belong to a good lmnl}—tl American B blacks—but have been in tmdc i the pit, until quite lately. Having acquired a considerable competence 1n buns, however, DOLLY'S SOMERSAULT, they have now retired into semi-privacy. They grew so exees- SIV el\ fat, indced, upon the public bounty, that it became a matter of great difficulty to induce either to climb the pole—and almost as difficult a thing for either to do it. Now