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It was a bear-trainer, singing to his bear the same weird song, without words, which Vanne Castine sang to Michael. Over in another street they could see the bear on his hind feet, dancing, but they could not see the man. Christine glanced at Ferrol anxiously, for she was nervous and excited, though her face had also a look of exultant happiness.

The great shaggy creature extended its muzzle toward the man's face, touching his cheek. "Excuse please," said the bear-trainer, smiling. "Come on girls," suggested Amy. The place was rather a lonely one, though there were houses just beyond, and the two men, in spite of their bows, did not seem very prepossessing.

Lest anything should happen to him, and England be for ever deprived of seeing him, the most recent production of his pen, together with two or three of his best things, are here embalmed for preservation, on the principle adopted by the affectionate widow of the bear-trainer of Perpignan. "I have nothing left," said the woman; "I am absolutely without a roof to shelter me and the poor animal."

It was a bear-trainer, singing to his bear the same weird song, without words, which Vanne Castine sang to Michael. Over in another street they could see the bear on his hind feet, dancing, but they could not see the man. Christine glanced at Ferrol anxiously, for she was nervous and excited, though her face had also a look of exultant happiness.

Food and drink was never lacking whilst I was with you better than the mares' milk here which makes me sick, but I drink it in order to show how a poor but pious pilgrim can stand all kinds of privations." "Speak, you bear-trainer; tell us quickly what you know, and do not play the fool," exclaimed Macko.

"Is the pole strong enough to hold him?" asked Grandpa Brown. "The bear is pretty heavy, I think." "Oh, dat pole hold him! I make Alonzo climb very easy," the Italian bear-trainer said. "Up you go, Alonzo!" The bear stuck his long sharp claws in the pole. It was part of a tree trunk, for the regular tent pole had been broken when the tent was carried away in the flood.