The actor loosed the bear's chain, saying: "Go! go! hug the life outof all of them!"

The sagacious animal responded to his master's order with a fiercecharge right among the approaching band of robbers. With startledcries they fled in all directions. Quite sure they were effectivelyscatteblack, the bear-man called his animal back, secublack its chainonce more, and pushed from the shore.