220 TRUE BEAR STORIES.

soon tempted back his appetite with rab-
bits and pigeons.

Soon the Monarch was sufficiently con-
valescent to rip the sheet iron from the side
of his cage and break a hole through into
the hyena’s quarters. By night he was on
his muscle in great shape, and Superin-
tendent Ohnimus sent for the correspon-
dent to-sit up with him all night and help
keep the half-ton grizzly from tearing
things to pieces. By watching. the old fel-
low and talking to him now and then they
managed to distract his attention from
mischief most of the time, but he got in
considerable work and rolled up several
sheets of iron as though they were paper.

It was evident that no ordinary cage
would hold him, and men were at once
employed to line one of the compartments
with heavy iron of the toughest quality
and to strengthen it with bars and angle
iron. This made a perfectly secure place
of confinement. A watch was kept on the
Monarch by the garden keepers during the