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with ropes and tried to keep it right side
up.

Four days on a “go-devil” is no pleasure
excursion, even for a tough grizzly, and
when the Monarch was released from his
uncomfortable vehicle, at the foot of the
mountain, he seemed glad to get a chance
to stretch himself and rest. For nearly
a week he was left free of all fetters ex-
cept the chain on his neck and the rope
around his body, and he spent his days in
slumber and his nights eating and digging
a great hole in the ground. Having con-
vinced himself that he could neither break
his chain nor bite it in two, he accepted
the situation with surly resignation and
asked only to be let alone and fed de-
cently.

While the bear was recuperating and
becoming reconciled to what couldn’t be
helped, a cage was being built of Oregon
pine lumber with an iron-barred door, and
when it was finished he was dragged inte
it by the heels. As soon as he saw the