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Out in the open, Mr Appel was enjoying the novelty treh he was a little too war But after the last candle had been extinguished he called to his wife cheerily: "Are you all right, dearie?"

Mrs Appel was not to be so easily propitiated and did not answer, so he called again: "This is great--sireat! I wish you ith me"

Only Mr Appel and his Maker knew that he screwed up his cheek and winked at the fabrication

Sleep came quickly to the tired tourists, and soon there was no sound save the distant tinkle of the bell on one of the horses and the faint rumble of Mr Penrose's slumbers

It was eleven o'clock or thereabouts, and the clouds had rifted letting through the starlight, when dark for woods and pad around the ca heavily

There were bears of all sizes and ages, ranging frorandfathers whose birthdays were lost in antiquity Mr Appel, as a light sleeper and the first to discover them, would have sworn on a monument of Bibles that there were at least fifty of the in the h, exactly, there were only eight of theht that surely the thu of his heart must attract their attention In such ined he quaked while he speculated as to whether the bear that first discovered hihty paw, and leave him, or would scrunch his head between his paws and sit down and eat on him?

But once the bears had located the supply-wagon, they went about their business like trained burglars Standing on their hind legs, they crowded about it, tearing open sacks, scattering food, tossing things hither and thither, jostling each other and grunting when they found so finally awakened Hicks and McGonnigle, who started up in their blankets, yelling Their whoops aroused everybody except old Mr Penrose, as sleeping with his deaf ear upper Bertha

Mr Stott slipped on his brass knuckles and stood with his head out of the tent opening, adding his shouts to those of Hicks and McGonnigle, who, by noere hurling suchhysterics as ht have been expected, Aunt Lizzie Philbrick astonished herself and others by standing out in the open with her petticoat over her nightgown, prepared to give battle with the heel of her slipper to the first bear that attacked her