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Show PTSZi'::' :"V'" ' - ' :' :..'yi if wo -af 1 i feiw L - .v: '" j t T I How the Bear Lost His Tail j In the ages ago a black bear met a fox, who had a long string of fish. "Where did you get those fish and how?" asked the bear.- "I go fishing with my tail," re- j plied the fox. I "Well, I would like to know how ! you do it?" replied the bear. The fox replied: "I go to the lake and cut a hole in the ice, then put my tail through the hole into the water for fish to bite. You 1 Sjo to the lake and do likewise and you'll get lots of fish. However, you must not jump at the first little bite you feel on your tail, because be-cause the fish will then be onlv nibbling. You must wait till you find biting good." So the bear cut a hole in the ice and put his tail in as he had been instructed. lie then waited and wailed. Thin there wvre several . rubles, then a lite. At once he j "ave a big jump an.l broke off his J tail, which had become frozen in J the ice; and t' at is why the bear j ha.- t:o tail to th. d.!.-. |