212 TRUE BEAR STORIES.

to get upon his back, put a chain collar
around his neck, and fasten the heavy
chain with a swivel to the collar. The col-
lar was kept in place by a chain rigged
like a martingale and passed under his
arms and over his back. A stout rope
made fast about his body completed the
Monarch’s fetters and the gag was then
removed from the royal mouth. The King
of the mountains was a hopeless prisoner—
Gulliver, tied hand and foot by the Lilli-
putians.

The next morning Monarch was lashed
upon a rough sled—a contrivance known
to lumbermen as a “go-devil”—to make the
journey down the mountain. The first
team of horses procured to haul him could
not be driven anywhere near the bear. They
plunged and snorted and became utterly
unmanageable, and finally they broke
away and ran home. The next team was
but little better, and small progress was
made the first day.

At night the Monarch was released from