I go to bed
now the same day I get up, and I've passed on my high hat and
frock
coat to a scarecrow. And I'll bet you when those bears once scent
the wild woods they'll stampede for them like Croker going to a
third alarm."
"And I repeat," cried Kelly, "you are a nature faker. And I'll
leave it to the bears to prove it."
"We have done our best," sighed Jackson. "We have tried to save
him
money and trouble. And now all he can do for us in return is to
give us seats for the opening performance."
What the bears cost Herrick he never told. But it was a very
large
sum. As the Countess Zichy pointed out, bears as bears, in a
state
of nature, are cheap. If it were just a bear he wanted, he
himself
could go to Pike County, Pennsylvania, and trap one. What he was
paying for, she explained, was the time she had spent in
educating
the Bruno family, and added to that the time during which she
must
now remain idle while she educated another family.
Herrick knew for what he was paying. It was the pleasure of
rescuing unwilling slaves from bondage.
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