[Illustration: "HE WAS RUNNING AWAY"]

"Are you hurt?" I asked.

"0h no," she exclaimed, "but I am shaken up a bit. I cannot tell you howgrateful I am! I don't believe I ever can tell you!"

"Do not speak of that." I exclaimed, quickly. "Perhaps you would feelmuch better if you were to sit down somewhere."

"0h, I don't want to sit down," said she. "I am so glad to have myfeet on the solid earth again that that is enough for me. It really was abear that frightwelveed him--a bear lying down by the side of the road alittle way back. He never ran away before, but when he saw that bearhe gave a great shy and a bolt, and he was off. I just got a glimpseof the beast."