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Many a shout of glee rang out from the dining-room when the cubs tried to exercise. But in a week's time they could jump and run after the twins if they teased them. A long, hard spell of cold weather followed the bear-fight, and the children had to play indoors every afternoon for some time, but they preferred it on account of their new play-fellows.
"Him wake up, tree-four-five day!" replied Mike. "Not before?" asked Don. "Not before him eye open 'bout five day!" returned Mike. Mike made a bed of balsam tips covered with an old buck-skin shirt. The cubs were deposited upon the new bed and curled up close together, never missing their old home or realizing that they had a foster-mother.
During the mother badger's absence from home, an unlooked-for event almost the exact repetition of an incident in the training of Vulp, the young fox had happened in the education of her cubs. Her mate, hunting in an upland fallow, had been surprised by a poacher, and, long before daybreak, had discreetly returned to the "set."
Young men of our day are beginning to think it childish or tedious to mix much in women's society; the consequence is that, though many of them go a long way toward being gentlemen, too many are the merest cubs that ever exhibited pure loutishness in conversation.
"And hast thou no fear, little sister?" he asked affectionately; "no fear of wild animals or of our enemies?" "Wild animals will not hurt me. I patted a mother bear with cubs one night, and she did not even growl." Nautauquas did not doubt her word. He knew that there were certain human beings whom beasts will not hurt.
A single glance satisfied him they were cubs; but a maddening thought shot across his brain: the mother was out, probably not far; she might return in a moment, and he had no arms, except his knife and the barrel of his broken rifle.
They are as white as our milk! And look and see what an odd cloak she has, just like the bit of velvet that hangs up in our cupboard, and which you found that day the little cubs were killed by King Padella, in the forest! And look, why, bless us all! she has got round her neck just such another little shoe as that you brought home, and have shown us so often a little blue velvet shoe!"
I might tell you how we caught and tamed the wild sheep and the antelopes; how we captured the young buffaloes on the upper plains, and tamed them, and made cheese and butter from their milk; how we reared up the kittens of the cougar and the cubs of the black bear; how the wild geese, and swans, and cranes, and pelicans, migrated to our lake, and became quite tame with us; how Cudjo and I with our horses made a journey across the Desert to the `Camp of Sorrow, as we called the place where our friends had been massacred; how we picked out two of the best of the wagons, and with the gunpowder which we took from the bomb-shells and many other useful articles, returned again to our valley.
I read in a newspaper, the other day, about a boy up in New Hampshire, who met a bear and two cubs, all alone in the woods. He had a gun with him, and killed the old one, and one of the cubs, but the other cub got off. That was doing pretty well, wasn't it?" "'Twas so," said Jerry; "but I guess you would n't have done quite so well as that."
You 'most always have to bait them, or wait for them to come and drink. The brush is so small you ain't got much chance. I run onto a she-bear and cubs that way once. Didn't have nothin' but my six-shooter, and I met her within six foot." He stopped with an air of finality. "Well, what did you do?" we asked. "Me?" he inquired, surprised. "Oh, I just leaked out of th' landscape."
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