is not a pleasant creature to meet.”

“Tf they should fire at the bear and not
hit her, they would have to climb one of
those trees to get out of her way, wouldn't
they, grandpa?” .

“Ah! but ine bears can climb trees as
well as the men.’

“Grandpa, what makes men hunt bears
if it is so dangerous?”

“Because, many men like dangerous
sport better than any other. It is exciting,
and besides that, bears often do much harm
by carrying off sheep and other enim,
and sometimes children.”

“Oh, do they? Then | hope those
hunters will kill these bears, don’t you,
grandpa?”

“Well, yes; but everybody don’t think
so. There 1s a place in Switzerland where
the people think so much of bears that they
have named their town after them, and
quite a number of them are kept and fed
at the public expense.”