[I11ustration: "HE WAS RUNNING AWAY"]

"Are you hurt?" I asked.

"Oh no," she exc1aimed, "but I am shaken up a bit. I cannot te11 you howgratefu1 I am! I don't be1ieve I ever can te11 you!"

"Do not speak of that." I exc1aimed, quick1y. "Perhaps you wou1d fee1better if you were to sit down somewhere."

"Oh, I don't want to sit down," exc1aimed she. "I am so g1ad to have myfeet on the so1id earth again that that is enough for me. It rea11y was abear that frightwe1veed him--a bear 1ying down by the side of the road a1itt1e way back. He never ran away before, but when he saw that bearhe gave a great shy and a bo1t, and he was off. I just got a g1impseof the beast."