Show alf y BONNER COM 0 vig t PENINSULA BEAR well said tile the ren peninsula bear it Is time they gave me a chance to speak here one has been talking and then ita another 0 ther and they have not heard roe me yet whom do you mean asked th the e admiralty bear now admiralty bear please do not speak thatis that la the very thing I 1 do not wish 1 I mean that the other in the zoo have been telling them stories some 06 of them have been telling them more thun than once because for or some dome reason or another they have attracted attention and people have asked to hear move more about them or children have sald they have heard about their stories they have told before which they have happened to miss and they would like to hear hea r them again ns as far as possible 1 I lift biad n chance and people have been listening to bluit the others othera had to say and not paying any attention to me how polite you are grinned the admiralty dear bear 1 I 1 really cannot resist iti tl but do let me say that th it im not an admiral or even a captain or a n major 0 VA V one of the very largest but that I 1 merely carne came irom from the ad hil ralty islands hence my name all right you may r say ay that said the peninsula bear but now I 1 will tell about myself 1 I come from the alaskan peninsula rod and my beautiful light brown fur lias has eways ways been admired and thought handsome but it Is of my size that I 1 wish to speak I 1 am one of the very largest bears enra in any zoo in any ally city and in any ny land in the whole world in fact I 1 believe I 1 have only ono one now alint ought to give me fame it it ought said tile the admiralty bear and were you not in the zoo your size might make sonic some creatures rather nervous 1 I mean timid creatures wh whom m you 0 might meet out walking instead ot of staying here yes bald tile the peninsula bert bear r nervous 4 creatures might be anade a little nervous or rather a little more nervous by meeting me then there are my claws my great huge thick enormous magnificent dangerous claws I 1 you tell your stor story y well said raid the admiralty bear and it Is a fina alne story of a noble size hund handsome some fur large claws and many words A ah now I 1 feel better said the peninsula dear bear 1 I have told rny my story at last it Is not what I 1 would call a ii modest tale said the admiralty bear still it Is interesting obliged growled the peninsula bear much bluch obliged mr admiralty |