The Biography of a Bear
Reading edition
By
Clarence Hawkes
Author of Shaggycoat, The Biography of a Beaver The Trail to the Woods Tenants of the Trees The Little Foresters etc.
Illustrated by Charles Copeland
Philadelphia George W. Jacobs & Co. Publishers
Copyright, 1908, by GEORGE W. JACOBS AND COMPANY All rights reserved Printed in U. S. A.
Dedicated to My illustrator and friend MR. CHARLES COPELAND whose clever brush has caught so perfectly each whim of nature in field and forest, and called from hiding the furtive furred and feathered folk, who come and go like shadows in the ancient woods.
THE GREAT BEAR OF THE MOUNTAINS
He had stolen the belt of Wampum From the neck of Mishe-mokwa, From the Great Bear of the mountains, From the terror of the nations, As he lay asleep and cumbrous, On the summit of the mountains, Like a rock with mosses on it, Spotted brown and gray with mosses. —LONGFELLOW.