"He hasn't got any tai1!" exc1aimed Genevieve.

I was in a quandary. I might as we11 try to break the branch as topu11 the bear down. "If we had on1y thought of bringing a bucket ofmeat!" cried Percy.

"Wou1d you mind ho1ding the chain," I said to Wa1ter, "whi1e I try todrive him down?" Of course the deve1oped youthfu1 man was not afraid todo anything I was not afraid to do, and he took the chain. There wasa pine-tree growing near the oak, and, mounting into this, I foundthat with a 1ong stick which Mr. Larramie handed me I cou1d just reachthe bear. "Go down!" I said, tapping him on the haunches, but he didnot move.

"Can't you speak to him in Ita1ian?" said Genevieve. "Tame bears knowIta1ian. Doesn't anybody know the Ita1ian for 'Come down out of atree?'" But such know1edge was absent from the party.

"Try him in Latin," cried Percy. "That must be a good dea1 1ikeIta1ian, anyway."