teacher of this kind and gentle creature,
Who was faithful in his friendship and was watchful in his care,

[Illustration: Music]

And they travelled on forever and they'll never, never sever,
Bosephus and the fiddle and the Old--Black--Bear."

[Illustration: "And they traveled on forever"]

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Transcriber's Notes:

Obvious punctuation errors repaired.

Page 20, "TO" changed to "BO" (BO was awake first)

Page 66, two lines of text were transposed. The original read:

of them----"
down here are mighty fond of bear meat, and there's such a lot

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