elow. They told of the river at our feet: of its rise, a thread-like
rill, afar on Tallac's side, and its growth--a brook, a stream, a
little river, a river, a mighty flood that rolled and ran from hills
to plain to meet a final doom so strange that only the wise believe.
Yes, I have seen it; it is there to-day--the river, the wonderful
river, that unabated flows, but that never reaches the sea.

I give you the story then as it came to me, and yet I do not give it,
for theirs is a tongue unknown to script: I give a dim translation;
dim, but in all ways respectful, reverencing the indomitable spirit of
the mountaineer, worshiping the mighty Beast that nature built a
monument of power, and loving and worshiping the clash, the awful
strife heroic, at the close, when these two met.

In this Book the designs for cover, title-page, and general make-up
were done by Grace Gallatin Seton.

List of Full-Page Drawings

"The pony bounded in terror while the Grizzly ran almost alongside"

"Jack ate till his paunch looked like a rubber balloon"

"'Honey--Jacky--honey'"

"Jack ... held up his sticky, greasy arms"

The Thirty-foot Bear

"'Now, B'ar, I don't want no scrap with you'"

"Rumbling and snorting, he made for the friendly hills"

Monarch

List of The Chapters

I. The Two Springs

II. The Springs and the Miner's Dam

III. The Trout Pool

IV. The Stream that Sank in the Sand

V. The River Held in the Foothills

VI. The Broken Dam

VII. The Freshet

VIII. Roaring in the Canon

IX. Fire and Water

X. The Eddy

XI. The Ford

XII. Swirl and Pool and Growing Flood

XIII. The Deepening Channel

XIV. The Cataract

XV. The Foaming Flood

XVI. Landlocked

FOREWORD

The story of Monarch is founded on material gathered from many sources
as well as from personal experience, and the Bear is of necessity a
composite. The great Grizzly Monarch, still pacing his prison floor at
the Golden Gate Park, is the central fact of the tale.

In telling it I have taken two liberties that I conceive to be proper
in a story of this sort.

First, I have selected for my hero an unusual individual.

Second, I have ascribed to that one animal the adventures of several
of his kind.

The aim of the story is to picture the life of a Grizzly with the
added glamour of a remarkable Bear personality. The intention is to
convey the known truth. But the fact that