etites! They could never
get enough. They weren't finicky about the quality of their food; but
oh, the quantity! Then, too, I couldn't leave them and go on long
trips. So I decided to part with them.

The City of Denver sent a representative to see me, for they wanted
some grizzlies to show eastern tourists.

It was with the feeling that I was betraying the cubs, however, that I
finally took them to Denver. They were so obedient and well-behaved
that I hesitated to deliver them into unknown hands. They knew their
names, Johnny and Jenny, as well as children knew theirs. At command
they would stand erect, walk about on their hind feet, whining eagerly
for some treat, looking for all the world like funny, little old men.

At the Denver City Zoo we were welcomed by the keeper, Mr. Hill, who
courteously invited me to spend the day with him, and entertained me by
taking me into many of the cages, permitting me to feed some of the
animals, and telling me interesting tales of happenings at the Zoo.

When we returned to the large inclosure surrounding the cage of the
larger and fiercer animals, Mr. Hill asked me to assist in transfering
a brown bear and a black bear to the cage where my pets were to be
housed. These other bears were over a year old and more than double
the size of Johnny and Jenny. The brown bear went willingly enough
into the new cage, and we expected the black bear to follow, but when
he reached the cage door, he stopped. Gently we urged him forward, but
his mind was made up--he had gone as far as he intended and was
homesick for his old cage. The keeper was tactful, and unobtrusively
tried to maneuver the bear into the cage without exciting his obstinacy
further, but he wouldn't yield. At last it came to a show down. We
had the option of forcing the bear into the cage, or letting him go
back.

"You go inside and snub the rope around the bars," the keeper directed
me. "I'll boost from behind--we'll show him a trick or two."

A crowd had collected outside the heavy iron fence. Suggestions were
abundant. No young man ever had so much advice in so short a time.
However, we were too busily engaged to profit by what we were told.

The keeper boosted the bear--and I took up the slack in the rope; but
still the bear balked, though three times we double-teamed against him.
Then, suddenly, he let go all holds and lunged through the doorway,
charging headlong upon me and sank his teeth into my le