252 TRUE BEAR STORIKS.

distance I turned my head and saw the
bear running in the opposite direction. I
did not stop, however, and I got to the
ranch nearly an hour before the old cow.

In the shingle mills of the North the Nor-
wegian hands have the same veneration for
the bear as the Indian. They always
speak of him not as a bear, but as “the old
man with the fur coat on.”