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diff --git a/old/61450-0.txt b/old/61450-0.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 24895d7..0000000 --- a/old/61450-0.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3472 +0,0 @@ -The Project Gutenberg EBook of Dido, the Dancing Bear, by Richard Barnum - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most -other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: Dido, the Dancing Bear - His Many Adventures - -Author: Richard Barnum - -Illustrator: C. P. Bluemlein - -Release Date: February 19, 2020 [EBook #61450] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIDO, THE DANCING BEAR *** - - - - -Produced by Donald Cummings and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - -[Illustration: Dido did jump through the blazing hoop to get the -apple.] - - - - - _Kneetime Animal Stories_ - - - DIDO - THE DANCING BEAR - - HIS MANY ADVENTURES - - - BY - RICHARD BARNUM - - Author of “Squinty, the Comical Pig,” “Mappo, the - Merry Monkey,” “Tum Tum, the Jolly Elephant,” - “Blackie, a Lost Cat,” “Flop Ear, the - Funny Rabbit,” etc. - - - _ILLUSTRATED BY - C. P. BLUEMLEIN_ - - - PUBLISHERS - BARSE & HOPKINS - NEW YORK, N. Y. NEWARK, N. J. - - - - -KNEETIME ANIMAL STORIES - -By Richard Barnum - -_Illustrated._ - - - SQUINTY, THE COMICAL PIG - SLICKO, THE JUMPING SQUIRREL - MAPPO, THE MERRY MONKEY - TUM TUM, THE JOLLY ELEPHANT - DON, A RUNAWAY DOG - DIDO, THE DANCING BEAR - BLACKIE, A LOST CAT - FLOP EAR, THE FUNNY RABBIT - TINKLE, THE TRICK PONY - LIGHTFOOT, THE LEAPING GOAT - -(_Other volumes in preparation_) - - BARSE & HOPKINS - Publishers New York - - - Copyright, 1916 - by - Barse & Hopkins - - - _Dido, the Dancing Bear_ - - MADE IN U. S. A. - - - - -CONTENTS - - - CHAPTER PAGE - I DIDO CUTS UP 7 - II DIDO IS CAUGHT 16 - III DIDO IS TRAINED 28 - IV DIDO LEARNS TO DANCE 38 - V DIDO CROSSES THE OCEAN 48 - VI DIDO IN THE COUNTRY 58 - VII DIDO MEETS DON 66 - VIII DIDO HELPS A GIRL 74 - IX DIDO IN THE BAKERY 83 - X DIDO SCARES A MAN 92 - XI DIDO IN THE CIRCUS 100 - XII DIDO IN A FIRE 109 - - - - -ILLUSTRATIONS - - - PAGE - - Dido did jump through the blazing hoop to get the - apple _Frontispiece_ - - But Dido climbed up a tree to get away 23 - - Into the tub of water he jumped with a splash 43 - - Dido, the dancing bear and Tum Tum, the jolly elephant 65 - - Just as the dog was going to jump Dido stepped in - between them 81 - - Jacko and Dido were eating cakes from the window 95 - - He soon had opened the cage of the dancing bear and - Dido jumped out 117 - - - - -DIDO, THE DANCING BEAR - - - - -CHAPTER I - -DIDO CUTS UP - - -In the woods, on top of a mountain, in a far-off country there once -lived a family of nice bears. I call them nice bears for they were. Of -course they had long claws, and sharp teeth, but they never bit any -one, or scratched any one, because there were no boys or girls, or men -or women, living in that part of the woods. - -I suppose, though, if a boy went on top of the mountain, and began -throwing stones or sticks at the nice bears, they might have run out -and scratched him to make him go away. Mind, I’m not saying for sure, -but maybe. But, as I have said, there were no boys in the woods to -bother the bears who lived all by themselves in a den among the rocks. - -A bear’s house is called a den, because it is such a nice, cozy, warm -place, just as your father or brother may have a room of his own, all -fixed up with the things he likes best, and he calls that his den. - -Well, in this den in the woods on top of the mountain lived the five -bears. There was Mr. Bear, the papa, and Mrs. Bear, the mother, and -there were three little bears, called cubs, just as little dogs are -called puppies. - -One little bear was named Gruffo, because he had such a deep, gruff -voice, though it was not at all cross. And another bear was named -Muffo, because he had such big, soft furry paws that when he folded -them together it looked just as if he were carrying a muff. - -And besides Gruffo and Muffo there was another bear, the smallest of -the three, called Dido. Now I am going to tell you some of the many -adventures Dido had. Adventures, you know, are what happen to you. - -“Gruffo and Muffo, you must take good care of your little brother Dido -when you go off playing in the woods,” said Mrs. Bear, for though the -bears could not speak in our language they had talk of their own which -was just as plain to them as our A B and C talk is to us. - -“Take good care of Dido,” Mrs. Bear would say. “Don’t run away from -him, or he might be lost. And don’t climb big trees and leave him on -the ground, or something might happen to him. And never take him too -far out in the water of the lake when you go swimming, or he might be -drowned.” - -“We won’t, Mother,” said Gruffo and Muffo. “We’ll take good care of -Dido.” - -“Oh, I guess I can take care of myself,” said Dido, making a funny face -with his queer, black, rubbery nose. - -“Now that wasn’t a nice thing to say,” said Mrs. Bear, holding up her -paw and gently shaking it at Dido. “You ought to be glad your bigger -brothers will look after you.” - -“Oh, so I am, Mother,” answered Dido. “I’m sorry I spoke that way. May -they take me swimming now, down to the lake?” - -“I guess so,” answered Mrs. Bear. “Run along, little cubs. I have to go -out and see if I can find some berries or sweet roots for your dinner.” - -Bears, you know, like to eat berries and the sweet roots of some trees -and bushes. Bears also like fish, and honey. Say! if ever you have a -pet bear, which might some day happen, you know, and you want to give -him a special extra treat, just bring him some honey. He will love it -so much that he will eat every bit of it up, box and all! - -So while Dido, with his brothers Gruffo and Muffo, walked on along the -mountain path to the lake, Mrs. Bear went off in the woods to find -some roots and berries for dinner. Of course the little bears might -have been able to find some for themselves, but you know how it is with -children. Even though they know where the things are to eat they like -their mother to get a meal for them. - -“I can run faster than you can!” cried Dido to his two brothers, as -they went along through the woods. “Look!” And off he started, swinging -from side to side, brushing the bushes out of his way as he went. - -“Pooh! I can go faster than that!” called Gruffo in his deep voice. -“Watch me!” - -Then he began to run, and, as he was bigger than Dido, of course he ran -faster, and soon passed him. - -“I can beat you, Gruffo!” cried Muffo. “See!” Then Muffo ran, and of -course he easily ran ahead of the other two bear cubs. - -“Let’s have another race,” said Dido, a little later. “I think I can -beat you both then,” and slipping up behind Gruffo he began tickling -him in his ear with a piece of tree branch. - -“Ouch! What’s that, a bee?” cried Gruffo, brushing his ear with his -paw, for his ear tickled. He did not see what Dido was doing. - -“Let me alone, bee!” growled Gruffo. “That is, unless you will show me -the hollow tree where you have some honey,” went on the bear cub. “If -you do that you may tickle me all you please!” - -“Ha! Ha!” laughed Muffo at the funny way Dido was tickling Gruffo. “Ha! -Ha! Ho! Ho!” and he nearly fell down, he laughed so hard. - -Of course I don’t mean to say that bears laugh as we do, but they have -their own way of making fun and laughing at it. So when I say, in this -story, that a bear laughs, or talks or does anything, I mean he does it -in a bear’s way, and not in our way. - -“Where is that bee?” asked Gruffo. And then, as he heard Muffo -laughing, and Dido giggling, Gruffo turned quickly and saw that it was -his little brother tickling him in the ear with the stick. - -“Here, you stop that!” cried Gruffo, and he reached out his paw to -catch Dido. But Dido jumped back, and so quickly that he tripped over a -tree root, and down he went, turning a back somersault. - -“Ha! Ha! Ho! Ho!” laughed Gruffo this time. “That was very funny, Dido. -Do it again!” - -“No,” answered Dido, “I will not, if you please. I did not do it on -purpose, and besides, I bumped my nose when I fell.” - -“Oh, that’s too bad!” said Gruffo, for he remembered what his mother -had said about looking after little Dido. “I’m sorry you hurt your -nose,” went on Gruffo. “Still, if you had not tickled me you would not -have fallen. Never mind, here is some soft mud you can hold on your -nose, that will make it well.” - -From a wet place, near a spring of water, Gruffo took up some soft mud, -and put it on his little brother’s nose. - -“Does that make the pain better?” asked Gruffo. - -“Lots better, thank you,” answered Dido. For it is true that bears and -other animals use mud as we do plaster and poultices. If ever your dog -gets stung by a bee on the nose, you watch him hunt for some soft mud -to put on the stinging place. - -“Well, come on if we’re going swimming,” said Muffo, after a bit. - -So the three bears went on through the woods on the mountain, until -they came to the lake, where the water was blue and clear and cold. -Without stopping to take off any clothes (for of course they did not -wear any), the three bears plunged into the water and began swimming -about. Bears love to play in the water, and that is why, in parks and -other places where they keep tame bears, there is always a pool of -water for them to splash in. And sometimes there is a wooden ball in -the water for the bears to play with, too, for bears love to play. - -“Watch me dive!” cried Dido, and down he went under the water. Up he -came, a little later, right near Muffo, and with his paw Dido splashed -some water in Muffo’s face. - -“Say, you’re cutting up a lot to-day, Dido!” cried Muffo. “What makes -you do so many tricks?” - -“Oh, I just feel happy!” cried Dido, gayly. - -Then he swam about some more, splashing in the water of the lake, and -lapping some water with his red tongue. - -“I wish we could catch some fish,” said Gruffo, after a bit. “I’m -hungry.” - -“So am I,” said Muffo. “Let’s go fishing.” - -“I’m coming, too,” said Dido. - -The bears came up out of the water, with their fur dripping wet, and -started to go fishing. They did not need poles or lines or hooks. All -they had to do was to sit on a log, near the lake, and when, by looking -down, they saw a fish swimming along they just put their claws quickly -in and pulled the fish out. It was very easy for them, but it would -have been hard for you or me. - -“Ha! I see a fish!” suddenly cried Dido. “Watch me catch him!” - -Down into the water he thrust his paw. But something was wrong. Either -Dido did not see the fish, and only thought he did, or he went after -it too quickly. For he reached over too far, and the next thing he knew -he was splashing in the lake again. He had fallen in. - -“Ho! Ho!” laughed Muffo. “That’s a queer way to fish, Dido.” - -“I――I didn’t meant to do that!” spluttered Dido, as he crawled out on -the bank. - -“Try again,” said Gruffo, as he helped his little brother out on the -log. “Maybe next time you will catch one. Now you watch how I do it,” -for Gruffo knew that Dido was little, and had many things to learn that -bears must know if they are to get along in the woods. - -Pretty soon Gruffo saw a big fish, and with one scoop of his paw he -landed it on the bank. - -“Oh, that’s a fine one!” cried Dido. “I wish I could catch one like -that.” - -“I’ll give you some of this,” said Gruffo kindly. “There is enough for -all of us.” - -Then he divided the fish with his two brothers, and they ate it, not -stopping to cook it as we would have to do. Bears like their meat and -fish without being cooked. - -After they had eaten the fish, and had swam in the lake to wash their -paws and faces, the three bears went back to the den in the rocks. - -“Oh, Mother, we had such fun!” cried Dido. Then he saw his father -asleep in the sun, and, taking up a leafy branch Dido went softly over -and began to tickle Mr. Bear on the nose. - -“Wuff! Ker-choo!” sneezed Mr. Bear. “What’s that; a fly?” - -“Oh, it’s just Dido,” said Mrs. Bear. “He’s cutting up again. You must -not be too funny,” she went on, shaking her paw at her little bear cub, -“or some day something may happen to you.” - -And one day something did happen to Dido. - - - - -CHAPTER II - -DIDO IS CAUGHT - - -One nice, warm sunny day, when it was too hot to stay inside the den -among the rocks, the nice bears were all out in front, lying in the -shade of the woods. - -“Oh, my! How hot it is!” cried Dido, and he opened his mouth wide, and -let his red tongue hang out, for animals, such as dogs and bears, cool -themselves off that way. You must have seen your dog, when he had run -fast, after a cat, perhaps, open his mouth and breathe fast, with his -tongue hanging out. - -“Let’s go swimming in the lake again!” cried Dido to his brothers. - -“All right,” agreed Gruffo. - -“We’ll all go,” said Mr. Bear. “Come along.” - -So off through the woods walked the family of bears toward the cool, -blue lake, high up in the mountains. Dido could hardly wait to get -there, and as soon as he saw, through the trees, the sparkle of the -water he began to run. He ran so fast that he stumbled over a stone, -and fell down. - -“Oh, Dido!” called his mother. “You must be more careful. You must not -go so fast. Something will happen to you some day if you do not look -where you are going.” - -“I didn’t hurt myself that time, anyhow,” answered Dido, as he got up, -and jumped into the lake. There he swam about, as did the father and -mother bear, and the other two cubs. Dido splashed his brothers every -time he came near them, but they did not mind, for he was such a cute -little fellow and he meant no harm. Besides, it was so warm that the -more water they had on them the better Gruffo and Muffo liked it. - -“It makes me hungry to go in swimming,” said Mrs. Bear. “I am going off -in the woods to look for some berries.” - -“I’m coming, too,” said Dido. “For I am hungry myself.” - -Soon Mrs. Bear found a bush on which were growing some big red berries. -These she pulled off with her forepaws, which were, to her, almost like -our hands are to us, and the mother bear filled her mouth with the -fruit. Dido did the same, and soon he was not as hungry as he had been. -Then along came Mr. Bear, with Gruffo and Muffo, and they, too, ate the -red berries off the bushes. - -All at once Mr. Bear stopped eating, and, lifting his nose up in the -air, sniffed very hard two or three times. - -“What is the matter?” asked Mrs. Bear quickly. - -“I think I smell a man,” answered the papa bear. “See if you can smell -anything.” - -Mrs. Bear lifted her nose up in the air and she, also, sniffed. Bears, -you know, as do most wild animals, use their noses as much as they do -their eyes to tell when there is danger. And to wild animals a man, -nearly always, means danger. If you were out in the woods, and could -not see any one, you could not tell, just by smelling the air, whether -some person was near you or not――that is, unless they had a lot of -perfume on them, and then, if the wind was blowing toward you, why you -might smell that. - -But bears have much better noses for smelling than have we, and they -can smell a man in the woods even if he has no cologne on him. - -“Sniff! Sniff!” went Mr. Bear. - -“Sniff! Sniff!” went Mrs. Bear. - -“Yes, I can surely smell a man,” the papa bear said in a low voice. “It -is the first time I have known them to come around here.” - -“And so can I smell a man,” added Mrs. Bear. “We had better get away -from here.” - -Then the bears ran off through the woods to their den. For though big -bears are very strong and can fight well, they would much rather run -away from a man than fight him, unless they find they can not get away. -For when a man goes into the woods where there are bears he nearly -always has a gun with him, and while bears know they are stronger than -a man they also know that a gun is stronger than a dozen bears. - -When Dido, with his brothers and father and mother, got back to the den -in the rocks, the little bear cub saw that his father was worried about -something. Mr. Bear walked up and down in front of the pile of rocks, -sniffing the air, and looking on all sides. - -“What is the matter, Papa?” asked Dido, in bear talk, of course. - -“It’s that man I smelled in the woods,” said Mr. Bear. “I fear he may -find our den.” - -“Well, what if he does?” asked Dido. - -“Then it would not be safe for us to stay here,” answered Mrs. Bear. -“If men are coming into our woods it is time for us to go away.” - -“What! go away from our nice den?” asked Gruffo. For though the den was -only a hole in the rocks, with a pile of leaves in one corner for a -bed, still, to the bears, it was as much a home as your house is to you. - -“Yes, it would not be safe to stay while men are around,” said Mr. -Bear. “That is the first time I have ever smelled them in our woods. -Though a friend of mine, Mr. Lion, who lives farther down the mountain, -said he has often seen men near his cave. Once some men on elephants -chased him, but he got away.” - -“Have you ever seen a man?” asked Dido of his father. - -“Oh, yes, often, but always afar off. And the men did not see me.” - -“What does a man look like?” asked Dido, for he had never seen any, -though he had heard of them. - -“A man is a queer creature,” said Mr. Bear. “He walks up on his hind -feet, as we do sometimes, but when he walks on his four feet he can -only go slowly, like a baby. Even you could run away from a man on his -four feet, Dido.” - -“How queer!” said the little bear. - -“But don’t try it,” said Mrs. Bear quickly. “Keep away from men, Dido, -for they might shoot you with one of their guns.” - -“What else is a man like?” the little bear asked. - -“Well, he has a skin that he can take off and put on again,” said Mr. -Bear. - -“Oh, how very funny!” cried Dido. “Take off his skin? I should think it -would hurt!” - -“It doesn’t seem to,” said the papa bear. “I don’t understand how they -do it, but they do.” - -Of course what Mr. Bear thought was skin was a man’s clothes, which he -takes off and puts on again. But though bears are very wise and smart -in their own way, they don’t know much about men, except to be afraid -of them. - -“I do not like it that men are coming up in our woods,” said Mr. Bear. -“It means danger. So be careful, Dido, and you, too, Gruffo and Muffo, -that you do not go too far away. Perhaps the man has come up here to -set a trap to catch us.” - -“What is a trap?” asked Dido. - -“It is something dangerous, to catch bears,” his mother told him. “Some -traps are made of iron, and they have sharp teeth in them that catch -bears by the leg and hurt very much. Other traps are like a big box, -made of logs. If you go in one of these box traps the door will shut -and you can not get out.” - -“What happens then?” asked Dido. - -“Then the man comes and gets you.” - -“And what does he do with you?” the little bear cub wanted to know. - -“That I can not say,” answered Mrs. Bear. “Perhaps your father knows.” - -Mr. Bear shook his head. - -“All I know,” he answered, “is that the man takes you away if he finds -you in his trap. But where he takes you I do not know, for I was never -caught, and I hope I never will be.” - -“I hope so, too,” said Dido, and he sniffed the air to see if he could -smell the man, but he could not. - -For a number of days after that the bears did not go far from their den -in the rocks. They were afraid the man might shoot them. - -But, after a while, all the berries and sweet roots close by had been -eaten, and the bears had to go farther off. Besides, they wanted some -fish, and they must go to the lake or river to catch them. So after Mr. -Bear had carefully sniffed the air, and had not smelled the man-smell, -the bears started off through the woods again to get something to eat. - -Dido ran here and there, sometimes on ahead and again he would stay -behind, slipping up back of his brothers to tickle them. Oh, but Dido -was a jolly little bear, always looking for fun. - -The bears found some more red berries, and a few blue ones, and some -sweet roots, and they also caught some fish, which made a good dinner -for them. Then they went swimming in the lake again before going back -to their den. - -In the afternoon, when Gruffo was asleep in the shade, Dido went softly -up to him, and poured a paw full of water in his brother’s ear. - -[Illustration: But Dido climbed up a tree to get away.] - -“Wuff! Ouch! What’s that? Is it raining?” cried Gruffo, suddenly waking -up. Then he saw that Dido had played the trick on him, and he ran after -the little bear. But Dido climbed up a tree to get away, and he did it -in such a funny way, his little short tail going around like a Fourth -of July pinwheel, that Gruffo had to sit down and laugh. - -“Oh, you are such a funny cut-up bear!” he said, laughing harder than -ever, and when a bear laughs he can’t very well climb a tree. - -“Come on down, I won’t do anything to you,” said Gruffo, after a while, -so Dido came down. Then he turned somersaults on a pile of soft leaves. -Next he stood on his hind legs, and began striking at a swinging branch -of a tree with his front paws, as you have seen a kitten play with a -cord of a window curtain. - -“Dido is getting to be a real cute little cub,” said Mrs. Bear. - -Then, all of a sudden, Dido struck at the tree branch, but he did not -hit it and he fell over backward. - -“Look out!” cried Mr. Bear. “You’ll hurt yourself, Dido.” - -“I didn’t hurt myself that time,” said the little bear, “for I fell on -some soft, green moss.” - -“Well, there will not always be moss for you to fall on,” his mother -said. “So look out.” - -One day, when Mr. Bear came back from a long trip in the woods, he -brought some wild honey in his paws. And oh! how good it tasted to -Dido and Gruffo and Muffo! - -“Show me where the bee-tree is, Papa,” begged Dido. “I want to get some -more honey.” - -“It is too far away,” answered the papa bear. “Besides, I saw a man in -the woods as I was getting the honey out of a hollow tree. It would not -be safe for you to go near it when men are around.” - -But the honey tasted so good to Dido that the little bear cub made up -his mind that he simply must have more. - -“I know what I’ll do,” he said to himself. “When none of the others -are watching me I am going off by myself in the woods and look for a -bee-tree to get some honey. I don’t believe there’s any danger.” - -So about a week after this, one day, Dido saw his two brothers asleep -outside the den. Mr. Bear had gone off to the lake, perhaps to catch -some fish, and Mrs. Bear was in the den, stirring up the leaves that -made the bed, so it would be softer to lie on. - -“Now’s my chance,” thought Dido, in the way bears have of thinking. -“I’ll just slip off in the woods by myself, and find a honey-tree. I’ll -bring some honey home, too,” said Dido, for he was not a selfish little -bear. - -Walking softly, so as not to awaken his brothers, and so his mother, -making the leaf-bed in the den, would not know what he was doing, away -slipped Dido to the woods. - -He shuffled along, now and then finding some red berries to eat, or a -bit of sweet root, and every little while he would lift his nose up in -the air, as he had seen his father do, and sniff to see if he could -smell a man-smell. - -“But I don’t smell any,” said Dido. “I guess it’s all right.” - -Then, all at once, he felt a little wind blowing toward him, and on the -breeze came the nicest smell. - -“Oh, it’s honey!” cried Dido. “It’s honey! I have found the honey-tree! -Oh, how glad I am!” - -He hurried on through the woods, coming nearer and nearer to the honey -smell all the while, until, after a bit, he saw in among the trees -something square, like a box, made of little logs piled together. And -inside the thing like a box was a pile of honey. Dido could see it and -smell it. But he did not rush up in a great hurry. - -“That doesn’t look like the honey-tree father told about,” the little -bear cub thought. “He said he had to climb a tree. This honey is low -down. Still it is honey, so this must be a honey-tree, and if it is -low down so much the better for me. I will not have to climb.” - -Dido sniffed the air again. He wanted to see if there was a man-smell -about. But all he could smell was the honey. - -“Oh, I guess it’s all right,” said the bear cub. “I’m so hungry for -that honey I can’t wait! Here I go!” - -Dido fairly ran into the box and began to eat the honey on the floor -of it. But, no sooner had he taken a bite, than suddenly a queer thing -happened. - -_Bang!_ went something behind Dido, and when he looked around he saw -that the box was shut tight. A sliding door had fallen down and poor -Dido was a prisoner. - - - - -CHAPTER III - -DIDO IS TRAINED - - -For a moment Dido was so frightened that he did not know what to do. -His heart beat very fast, just as you can feel your kittie’s heart beat -fast after a dog has chased her. The little bear cub stopped eating the -honey, good as it was, and he looked carefully around him. - -“I wonder what has happened to me?” mused Dido. - -He soon guessed. For when he tried to get out the same way he had come -in, he found he could not. A heavy door of logs had fallen down, and -push as hard as he could, Dido could not open it. - -“Oh dear!” whined the little bear cub. “I guess I am in one of those -traps papa told about. This must be a box trap. But how did the honey -get here? That is caught, too.” - -Thinking of the honey made Dido hungry for some more, so he ate a -little. - -Then Dido tried again to get out, scratching with his strong little -claws on the log sides of the big box. But Dido could not get out that -way any more than he could break through the thick door. Soon the -little bear cub was very much frightened, and he cared no more for the -honey, though there was some left. - -“Oh dear! Oh dear!” thought Dido. “I have done something very wrong. -I ought not to have gone off in the woods by myself. Papa said there -might be traps, but I did not think this was one. I did not sniff the -man-smell, I only smelled the honey.” - -Poor, foolish Dido! That was why the man who had set the trap had put -the honey in it――so the bear, if one came along, would smell that sweet -stuff and not notice the man-odor. - -With his heart beating faster than ever, Dido now ran around all sides -of the box-trap, trying to find a way out. But there was none. He could -look through the cracks between the logs, and see the green woods where -he had walked along so freely only a little while before. But now Dido -could not get out to climb a tree or do anything else. - -“Oh, what will happen to me?” he asked himself. “I must get out! I must -get out!” - -But Dido could not. He grew tired of running around the cage, and -pushing on the sides and doors. His paws ached. His tongue was hanging -out like a dog’s, and his breath came fast. - -“I’ll lie down and rest,” said Dido. “Perhaps by then my papa or mamma -will come and look for me and let me out.” - -So Dido rested and then he ate a little more of the honey. It did not -taste as nice now, for he was in trouble, and when even a bear is in -trouble he can not eat well. - -Dido waited and waited, but no papa or mamma bear came for him. It is -true that Mr. Bear and Mrs. Bear soon missed their little cub, and they -went looking for him, but I will tell you about that part later on. - -All at once Dido, in the trap, heard the voices of some men talking. He -knew they must be men, for he had heard his father tell about them. And -Dido also noticed the man-smell coming to him through the cracks in the -trap. He could smell that queer smell now, even though he was close to -the honey. - -“Ha!” cried one man. “The trap is closed! There must be a bear in it!” - -“Don’t be too sure,” said another man. “Maybe he got out.” - -“Oh dear, if I only _could_ get out,” thought Dido, though he did not -know what the men said. Later on he was to learn to know man-talk, -though he could never speak it himself. Just as your dog knows what you -say when you call him to come to you, or to run home, though your dog -can not speak to you, except by barking, which, I suppose, is a sort of -dog language. - -Anyhow, Dido heard the men talking, even if he did not know what they -said. They hurried up to the trap, as Dido could see, and one looked in -through a crack. - -“We’ve caught a bear!” cried the first man. “We really have!” - -“Have we?” asked the other. “That’s good.” - -“But he’s an awful little one,” said the first man. - -“Never mind, he’ll grow fast enough,” the second man said. “And they -are easier to train to dance when they are little.” - -“What funny things those men are saying,” thought Dido. “I wonder if -they are talking about me? Maybe they will let me out.” - -But the men did not seem to be going to do that. They walked all around -the trap, looking carefully at it. - -“He can’t get out,” said the big man, for Dido could see that one man -was tall, and the other short, just as Dido’s father was larger than -he. “He can’t get out of the trap,” said the big man, “and we can pick -it up, with him in it, and carry it away. If we had caught a bigger -bear we could not do that.” - -“That honey you put in the trap made good bait,” said the short man. - -“I thought it would,” replied the other. “Bears will go almost anywhere -to get honey. And as soon as this one went in and began eating, he -loosened the rope that held up the door, and it fell down. That’s how -he was caught.” - -Dido did not understand all this talk, but he wished, with all his -heart, that he had not gone in to eat the honey. - -“Come on,” said the big man, “we’ll carry the cage-trap out to the road -and put it on the wagon. Then, in a few days, I will begin to teach -this bear to dance.” - -Dido ran around in the cage or trap once more, trying to get out, but -he could not. And the next thing he knew he felt himself being lifted -up and carried along. This frightened him more than ever, but there -was nothing he could do, for he could not get out. He could smell the -man-smell very plainly now, for the men were walking along close to the -trap, carrying it. - -Pretty soon Dido could see, through the cracks, that the woods were not -as thick as they had been. He was being taken away from his beloved -forest where he had lived all his short life. He was being taken away -from the den-house, and from his father and mother and brothers. - -And, even though Dido was only a bear he felt badly, as all animals do -when they are taken to a new and strange place. - -“If ever I get out of this trap,” thought Dido, “I’ll bite and scratch -those men until they let me go.” - -Biting and scratching comes natural to bears, as it does to some cats, -you know, and you could hardly find fault with Dido for wanting to get -loose. He did not learn, until afterward, that the men were going to be -kind to him. - -Pretty soon Dido felt his trap being lifted up. Then it was set down -on a wagon, and horses began to draw it down the mountain to the place -where the trappers lived. For the two men were trappers, and they set -traps in the woods to catch wild animals, which they trained to do -tricks and sold to circuses, or to persons who wanted them. Dido did -not learn until afterward what horses were, but he knew they must be -strong animals to pull a heavy wagon and the two men and himself in the -log-trap. - -How long he rode on the wagon Dido did not know, but after a while he -felt himself being lifted up again and he was carried into a queer -place. Though the little bear cub did not know what it was he found -out later that it was a barn. It was dark in there, almost as dark as -in the woods at night, but Dido was not afraid of the dark. He rather -liked it. - -“Are you going to take the little bear out of the trap?” asked the -little man. - -“Not right away,” answered the big man. “I will first let him get -quiet. I want to tame him a bit so he will not bite. I won’t give him -anything to eat or drink for a long while, and then he will be so -hungry and thirsty that he will not be afraid when I come near to give -him something.” - -And that is just what happened to Dido. The sweet honey had made him -thirsty, and he was very warm from having tried so hard to get out of -the trap. Oh! how he wanted a drink of water from the cool, blue lake! -But there was no water in the cage-trap. - -Finally Dido fell asleep. When he opened his eyes again he could see a -little light shining through the chinks of the trap. Then he smelled -the man-smell again, and he heard the big man say: - -“Well, I wonder how my little bear is to-day?” - -Dido growled, as all wild bears do when first they know a man is near -them. - -“Not very tame yet, I guess,” the man said. “But you soon will be, when -you get hungrier and more thirsty.” - -Dido thought he never had been so thirsty. His mouth was hot, and his -tongue was dry. That was worse than being hungry. All day long he had -no water, though he whined for it as he had whined when he was a little -baby bear and wanted his mother to feed him. - -On the second day the big man opened a little hole in the trap. Dido -quickly put out his head――that was all he could put out. The man -reached his hand toward Dido, who growled good and hard. - -“Quiet now! Quiet!” said the man. “I won’t hurt you. Here is some water -for you to drink.” He put down a basin of water where Dido could reach -it, and the smell of that water was so good to Dido that he drank it -even while the man was standing near. And as the bear drank the man -patted him on the head and spoke softly to him. This time Dido did not -growl, for he liked to be petted. But, best of all, he liked the water. - -Then the hole in the cage was closed again, and Dido was left alone. -He was getting quite hungry now, but there was nothing to eat. He had -eaten all the honey, and licked clean the boards where it had been. - -“Oh, how I wish I had some red berries or sweet roots,” thought the -little bear cub. And just then he smelled something that made his nose -quiver. It was fish. - -“Oh, I wonder if my father has come for me and brought me a fish from -the blue lake?” Dido asked himself. - -But when the little hole in the trap was opened Dido saw the big man. -Dido growled, and then he was sorry, for he saw the man holding out a -piece of fish to him. - -“I guess you’ll soon be tame,” said the man. “Come now, be a nice -bear.” Then Dido ate the fish, and had more water to drink. - -For nearly a week Dido was kept in the cage. Each day the man came to -feed and water him, and the man always patted the bear cub on the head -and spoke kindly to him. After a while Dido did not mind the man-smell -at all. He got rather to like it, and to like the man who fed him. So -that, in a few days, when the man opened the big door of the trap, and -let Dido come out, the bear cub did not try to run away. - -For he saw no place to which he could run. There were no woods, just a -big barn, the doors of which were closed. Besides, Dido thought if he -ran away he would get no more fish or water. - -“Now I’ll put a collar on you, with a chain, so you won’t get lost, and -then I’ll begin to train you to dance,” said the big man. - -Dido felt something being fastened around his neck. He did not mind -very much, for, at the same time, the man gave him something new to -eat. It was soft and white and tasted rather sweet, though not as sweet -as honey. - -“Oh, but that is good!” thought Dido. The man had given him a chunk of -bread, which bears like very much. When he had eaten the bread Dido -looked around for more, and he took another piece from the man’s hand, -and did not growl or bite. Dido was getting tame, you see. - - - - -CHAPTER IV - -DIDO LEARNS TO DANCE - - -“You are a very nice, good, little bear, and I think you will soon -learn to dance,” said the man as he rubbed Dido on the head, and gave -him some water to drink, after Dido had eaten the bread. “Yes, I must -soon start teaching you to dance.” - -Of course Dido did not understand this talk――that is not all of it, but -he knew the man was speaking kindly to him, for he could tell by the -way his voice sounded. Just as your dog can tell when you speak kindly -to him, or when you are cross. If you speak nicely to your dog, and -call him a good fellow, he will wag his tail, to show how glad he is. -But when you are cross――Oh! how the dog’s tail drops down between his -legs, and how sadly he looks up at you. - -Of course Dido was not quite as tame as a dog, but he was beginning to -learn that the man would not hurt him, and that he would be kind to -him. So Dido thought he would be good himself, and not growl, bite or -scratch. - -For two or three days more Dido was kept in the barn, being chained to -a post, with a leather collar around his neck. Dido did not like this -collar. He had never worn one before, and did not know what it was. In -the woods bears never wear collars, any more than they do neckties. Of -course, in a circus, a keeper, or trainer, might dress up a bear in -real clothes, with a collar and tie, just for fun. - -Dido did not like the collar around his neck, and he pawed and -scratched, trying to get it off. It was fastened on too snugly, -however, and would not come loose. - -“Let it alone, Dido,” said the man who was to be the little bear cub’s -keeper. “The collar will not hurt you, and I must keep it on so I can -lead you around by a chain, or rope, when we go traveling, and you show -the people how well you can dance.” - -Dido did not understand all this talk, but when he found he could not -get the collar off he stopped trying to loosen it. And he very soon -found that, though it felt queer at first, it did not hurt him, just as -the man had said. - -Every day Dido was given nice things to eat――big chunks of bread, -sometimes a bit of fish, and once he had a sweet bun with currants on -top. Oh! that was very good! - -“Well, it isn’t so bad being caught in a trap,” thought Dido, after a -bit. “I have better things to eat here than I did in the den at home, -and I do not have to go after them. The man brings them to me. I guess -men are not as bad as my papa and mamma thought.” - -Of course Dido’s keeper was good to him, for the man wanted to train -the little bear to dance, and you can not make wild animals learn -anything except by being kind to them. But I suppose all men might not -have been as good as the one who had caught Dido, so I guess the papa -and mamma bear were right in being afraid of men, and in teaching their -children bears to beware of the man-smell. - -“Yes, I like it here very much,” thought Dido, as he walked around in -the barn as far as his chain would let him, and ate a bit of sweet -cracker which the man threw to him. “But I would like a swim in the -cold blue lake.” - -Then he remembered his brothers, Gruffo and Muffo, and Dido was -lonesome and homesick. He wished very much that he might go back to -the woods again, and run about under the trees, and perhaps find a -honey-tree. If Dido had been a boy or girl I suppose he would have -cried, but bears do not know how to do that, which, perhaps, is just as -well. But, at any rate, Dido was lonesome, and most especially for the -blue lake, for he did want to swim so he might make himself nice and -clean. - -And then, one day, Dido saw the big man and the little man bringing in -the barn a big tub. This they filled with water. - -“Ha! Now the little bear can have a swim,” said the big man. “Jump in, -Dido, and have a bath.” - -Dido smelled the water. He lapped up some with his red tongue, and, -though it was not quite as nice as the water of the blue lake high up -in the mountains, still it was very good. - -“Wuff!” cried Dido, which was his way of saying “Fine!” and then into -the tub of water he jumped with a splash. Oh! how good it felt to be -washed! - -“Now come out in the sun and dry yourself,” said the big man, and he -led Dido out of the barn by the chain. It was the first time Dido had -been out in the open air since he had been caught. He could feel the -warm wind blowing on him, he could see the sun and the green trees, for -there were trees near the trainer’s barn, though not so many as in the -woods. - -Dido felt so jolly at being out in the air that he almost thought he -was back in his own forest again, and as he remembered Gruffo and -Muffo, and his father and mother, he wanted so much to see them that he -started to run. - -“Oh, ho! You mustn’t do that!” said the big man, kindly. “I don’t want -you to run away from me!” - -And Dido could not run away, for he was held fast by the collar about -his neck and the chain fastened to the collar. Dido ran as far as the -chain would let him, and then he came to such a sudden stop that he -turned a somersault, head over heels, as he used to do in front of the -rocky den, when his mother would laugh at him. - -The man had fastened the chain to a post in the barnyard and Dido could -not get away. He felt a little choked and out of breath as he got up -from having turned the somersault, and he looked at the man in a queer -way, with his eyes partly shut. - -“There, you see,” spoke the keeper. “You can’t get away, Dido, and you -might as well learn that first as last. I don’t want you to go away, -and I will be kind and good to you. I will feed you all you want to -eat, and you will have a nice place to sleep――just as nice as you had -in the woods. And when you learn to dance you and I will travel all -around the country, and the people will give me pennies to see you do -your tricks. So be a good little bear, and do not try to run away.” - -[Illustration: Into the tub of water he jumped with a splash.] - -Dido, even yet, did not know all the man said, of course, but the -little bear cub found he could not get away, so he sat down and looked -around. It was good to be out of doors, anyhow. Then the man moved a -sort of little house, like a dog kennel, up near Dido. This was for the -bear to sleep in nights, or go in out of the rain. The little house was -in the shade, but Dido’s chain was long enough so he could walk over in -the sun to get dry after his bath. - -“Yes, I think I shall like it here,” said Dido to himself, in the way -bears have of talking. “I used to have lots of fun with my brothers in -the woods, but we never had as many nice things to eat as I have here, -and I have a little house all my own. Yes, I think I shall like it -here, and I will not run away from the man.” - -Dido was getting very tame, you see. - -Dido had been living out of doors for about a week, chained to a post, -going in his little house nights, and in that time several other men -came to look at him. They talked with Dido’s keeper, and one man told -about a big bear he had caught in the woods. - -“My! I wonder if that could be my father or mother?” thought Dido, who, -by this time, could understand man-talk a little better. But there was -no way of knowing whether or not it was his father or mother who had -been caught. - -One day Dido’s master brought out some sweet buns, and said: - -“Now I think it is time you learned to dance. Come, Dido, let me see -if you know how. When I blow a tune on my horn lift up your paws and -dance around. Come now!” - -The man loosed Dido’s chain from the post, and led the little bear cub -out into a nice grassy place, where the sun shone through the trees. -Then the keeper put a horn to his lips and blew a jolly tune on it. At -first Dido was a bit frightened at the music, but soon he found it was -not going to hurt him, and then he rather liked it. Nearly all animals -like music, though the way some dogs howl when you blow on a mouth -organ, or play a fiddle, is queer, I think. Perhaps the dogs think they -are singing. - -Anyhow, Dido liked the horn-music which the man blew, but still Dido -did not know anything about dancing, although he stood up on his hind -legs. - -“But I will teach you,” said the man. - -He tied one string on Dido’s left hind leg, and another string on his -right leg. Then the man called to two boys to help him. - -“Now when I blow the horn,” said the man, “first pull on one string -and then on the other. That will pull Dido’s legs a little, and soon -he will know that he must lift them up, first one, then the other. And -pretty soon he will learn to do it without any strings――just by hearing -the music.” - -The man again blew on his horn, but Dido did not dance. Then the -little bear cub felt a pull on his left hind leg, as he was standing up -straight, for he did not have to be taught to do this. And of course -when Dido felt the pull on his leg he lifted it up. - -“That’s the way!” cried the man, and he tooted a merry tune. “Now pull -the other string, boy!” - -The boy did, and Dido lifted up his other leg. Then came a pull on the -one he had lifted before, and soon Dido was lifting first one hind leg, -and then the other, going around in a circle as the man gently pulled -him by the chain fastened to the collar. - -All this while the man played music on the horn, and Dido liked it more -and more. Soon he noticed that as the music went fast he was lifting -his legs more quickly, and when the music played slowly his legs went -slowly, too, the boys pulling the strings that way. - -“He will learn to dance in a little while,” said the keeper. - -For about an hour Dido had to lift first one foot then the other as the -strings were pulled and the music played. Then he was allowed to rest -and given a lump of sugar. - -“Oh! how good that is!” thought Dido. “It is almost as nice as honey!” - -The next day Dido practiced his dancing again, with the strings on -his legs. But this time he did better. And, at the end of his lesson, -he was given more sugar. Soon Dido learned to know that when the horn -played and his keeper cried “Dance!” that he must get up on his hind -legs and circle around, lifting first one foot and then the other. And -each time he danced Dido was given a lump of sugar. - -And, finally, one day the man did not put the strings to Dido’s legs. -He just led the little bear out by the chain, and blew the horn. - -“Dance, Dido! Dance!” cried the man, playing jolly music. - -And Dido danced, all by himself, and he liked it, too, for the music -seemed to make him happy. - -“Ah!” cried the man, “my little bear has learned to dance! Soon we will -go traveling over the world together.” - - - - -CHAPTER V - -DIDO CROSSES THE OCEAN - - -Every day, and sometimes two and three times a day, Dido’s keeper would -come out to him with the horn, and make the little bear dance. And -sometimes Dido grew tired. Then the man would give him a sweet bun, or -a lump of sugar, and Dido could rest in the shade, or take a nice bath -in the tub of water. - -Dido was growing to like to dance, for it was something like the tricks -he and his brothers used to do in the woods, though they never called -it dancing. They would find a loose, dangling branch of a tree and -stand up on their hind legs to knock it about with their front paws. -And sometimes when the branch would sway to and fro the bear cubs -would have to jump quickly about to reach it. And that, in a way, was -something like dancing. - -So, after all, dancing is not so very hard for a bear to learn. They -seem to like it, and Dido certainly liked the good things he had to eat -after each lesson. So now, whenever he heard the man play a tune on the -shiny brass horn, Dido would stand up and dance. - -“I think it is time you learned other tricks,” the man said one day. -“I must teach you how to climb a tree and how to stand on your head, -how to turn somersaults, and how to play soldier. But you can not learn -all of them at once. We will begin on climbing a tree, for that will be -easy for you.” - -Of course the man knew Dido could climb a tree, as all bears can do -that just as cats can. Their claws are sharp, though not quite as sharp -as are pussies’, and they can stick in the soft bark of a tree. Dogs’ -claws are not sharp, so that is why they can not climb trees. - -“Come, Dido, go up in the tree,” said the keeper one day, as he -fastened a longer chain on the bear’s collar. “Go up in the tree,” and -he led Dido to one. - -But Dido did not climb up. He would have done so if he had known what -the man wanted, but Dido did not know just what the words meant. He -saw the tree, and he knew he could climb it, as he had often done in -the woods at home, but just then he did not feel like climbing a tree. -Perhaps he thought his chain was too short, and he might get a pull -that would make him fall. - -“Ah, I shall have to give you a little lesson,” said the man. “Here, -boy!” he called, and a boy came with a big sweet bun, which he put on -a high branch of the tree, climbing up a ladder to do it. - -“Now, Dido, go get the bun! Go up in the tree and get the bun,” called -the man. Dido could smell the bun, for he had a very sharp nose. And he -wanted the bun so much, the little bear cub did, that he climbed right -up the tree and got it. - -“Ha!” cried the man. “That’s the way to do it! I knew you could climb -a tree, but you must do it when I tell you to, so as not to keep the -people waiting when we begin our travels, and go all over the world. -You will not find a bun up a tree every time I ask you to climb it, -Dido,” said the bear’s keeper, “but I will always give you a treat when -you have finished your tricks. Now come down, Dido!” - -But Dido sat on the limb of the tree, eating the bun. It tasted so good -he did not want to come down until he had finished it. Then he felt a -pull on the chain that was fast to his collar. - -“Come down, Dido! Come down!” called the man, and he pulled so hard on -the chain that Dido nearly fell. Then the bear knew what was wanted of -him, and down he climbed. But he had eaten the bun. - -“Now we must do it again,” the keeper said. “Boy, put another bun up in -the tree for Dido.” - -So the boy did, and Dido climbed up and got that bun. Each time the -man played a tune on the shiny brass horn, and it was a different tune -from the one he played for Dido to dance. And, in a little while, Dido -learned to climb up the tree whenever he heard this tune, and when the -man told him to go up, whether there was a bun in the tree or not. - -You see Dido did not have to learn _how_ to climb a tree, for he knew -that already. What he had to learn was to do it _when_ the man wanted -him to, and soon he did. - -Dido could now do two tricks, if you call climbing a tree a trick. -Dancing, I think, might really be called a trick for a bear, though men -and women, as well as boys and girls, dance and do not think it a trick -at all――that is, unless they are learning some new, fancy steps. - -“Dido, you are a good little bear,” said the man, as the little cub -came down out of the tree after having climbed up. “I wonder if you -will learn to march like a soldier, and turn a somersault as easily as -you learned to dance and climb a tree?” - -Had the man only known it, Dido did not have to be taught to turn -somersaults, for the little cub had often done this in the woods. But -what Dido did have to learn was to turn a somersault when the man told -him to. - -It took a little longer for Dido to learn these two new tricks――marching -like a soldier, and turning head over heels. But finally he did. His -keeper was good and kind, and gave him nice things to eat, and Dido did -his best to please the man. - -At last came the day when Dido could take a stick in his paws, hold it -straight up in the air, or over his shoulder, as a soldier holds his -gun, and walk around while the man played a marching tune on the shiny -brass horn. - -Then the little bear cub learned to turn somersaults, or, rather, he -learned to do it whenever the man asked him to, and when the man played -a certain tune on the horn. But Dido could not stand on his head. The -man tried to get him to do this, but Dido’s hind legs were so heavy -that whenever he stood on his head, with his front feet down on the -ground, he would fall over in a heap. - -“I guess we won’t try that trick,” the man said. “It is too hard for -you, Dido. We will make up an easier one.” - -Dido could now dance, turn somersaults, march like a soldier, and climb -a tree or a telegraph pole. Only there were no telegraph poles in the -mountains, though soon Dido was to see some. - -Four tricks are quite a number for a little bear cub to do, I think, -even though some of them were easy. - -“We must now begin to think of traveling,” said the man one day. “Yes, -Dido, we will soon start on our travel around the world, over to a new -country called the United States of America. That is a new country for -me, and it will be a new one for you. The people over there have lots -of money, and they will give me pennies when you do your tricks. With -the pennies I can buy things to eat for me and for you. Yes, soon we -shall sail over the ocean in a big ship and go to America.” - -Of course Dido did not know what all this talk meant, but he saw his -master smiling, and the man seemed happy, so Dido was glad, for the -keeper was kind to him. - -A few days after this Dido’s keeper gave him a nice dinner of bread, -fish and sweet buns. Dido saw that the man had a big bundle strapped -over his back, while on one shoulder was the shiny tooting horn. In one -hand the man had a long stick, with which Dido marched when he did his -shoulder trick. - -“Come, Dido!” called the man, “we are now going to start on our -travels. We will march through my country until we come to the ocean, -and there we will take a ship. And on the way you shall do your tricks, -and the people will give us money so we can buy things to eat.” - -So Dido and his master started down the mountain. At first the bear -cub, who had grown much larger, felt sad at going away from the woods -where he had always lived. He could look back and see them and he knew -the blue lake was there, and perhaps his brothers and father and mother -were swimming in it. - -“Oh, I wonder if I will ever see them again?” thought Dido. - -He never did, but then Dido had so many adventures, and saw so many -new and strange sights, that he soon forgot all about his bear-folks. -That’s the way it is with wild animals, you know. And I must tell you -that Dido’s father and mother, and his brothers Gruffo and Muffo, tried -very hard to find him. - -They went looking for him that same day Dido went off to search for the -honey-tree. But all Mr. Bear could find was the place where the trap -had been set, with the honey in it. - -“I guess poor Dido is gone,” said Mr. Bear to his wife. - -“Oh dear!” cried Dido’s mother. “Do you think a man will eat him?” - -“Let us hope not,” said Mr. Bear. “Dido was caught in a trap. Well, I -told him to be careful of them, but he did not mind. It is too late -now. Perhaps he is happier where he is.” - -And Dido was quite happy. His father and mother, soon after that, had -to find another den to live in, because the animal trappers began -searching through the mountains for wild creatures, and in a little -while Dido was forgotten by his folks, who had troubles of their own to -keep away from the hunters. - -Down the mountain went Dido and his keeper. Soon they came to a little -town, or village. Dido did not know what it was, but he saw many -houses, which were larger than the den he had lived in among the rocks, -and he saw many men, like his kind keeper, and women and boys and girls. - -When Dido’s keeper led him through the village streets the boys and -girls crowded about to see the bear. - -“Now, Dido,” said the man, “you shall dance for them.” - -Then the man played a tooting tune on his horn and Dido danced as he -had been taught to do. Around and around he went, first lifting up one -foot, then the other, the horn playing all the while. - -“Good, Dido! Good!” said the man. - -The children clapped their hands and laughed, and the older folks -tossed money into the hat of the keeper as he passed it around. - -“Now march like a soldier!” said the man, and Dido did. Then the bear -climbed a tree, and turned a somersault, and the children laughed -louder than before, and clapped their hands harder. - -“What a funny dancing bear!” cried a little girl. - -“I wish we had him for a pet,” said a little boy. - -“Ah, ha! I cannot give away my dancing bear,” said the man. “He and I -are going to a far country.” - -For many days Dido traveled with the man, walking from town to town, -sometimes to big cities. At night the man would take a blanket from -the bundle on his back, roll himself up in it and go to sleep under a -haystack or a bush. He would tie Dido to a tree, and the bear would go -to sleep, too. Only Dido did not have to wrap himself up in a blanket, -as he had a big, thick warm overcoat of fur. This was in the summer -time, when it was not too cold for the man to sleep out of doors. - -With the money which the people tossed into the hat after they had -watched the dancing bear, the man would buy things to eat for himself -and for Dido. And thus they traveled on and on until finally they came -to the seashore. - -“Now we will take a ship and go across the ocean,” said the man. - -Dido did not know what the ocean was, but he saw a lot of water, much -more than was in the blue mountain lake. But it was not the same kind. -For, when Dido lapped up some with his red tongue, the water was salty. - -“Wuff! I do not like that water!” said Dido to himself. - -Dido’s master led him through a long shed and up on the ship. Of course -Dido did not know what a ship was, but soon he found himself in a -little room with his keeper and he knew it was all right. So Dido went -to sleep. - -When he awakened he felt himself swaying up and down as he had often -swayed when in the top of a tree. - -“This is queer,” thought Dido. “I am not in a tree, but I am going up -and down. What makes it?” - -It was a ship, you see, tossing on the ocean waves. In about a week -Dido and his master had crossed the ocean and were in America. The -ship reached the big city of New York, and Dido was ready for many new -adventures. - - - - -CHAPTER VI - -DIDO IN THE COUNTRY - - -New York is a big city, and it is not a place where bears live, except -in Central Park, or Bronx Park, where there are many wild animals in -cages or dens. And it was to New York that Dido had come with his -keeper. - -On the ship Dido had had some adventures, and I wish I had space enough -in this book to tell you about what happened to him. But I think, -perhaps, you would rather hear about Dido’s adventures as he traveled -about the country and cities, dancing, turning somersaults, and -climbing trees and telegraph poles. - -So I will just say that on the ship Dido did a few tricks for the -passengers on deck when the weather was fine. When it was stormy Dido -and his keeper had to stay down in their room. And Dido had all he -wanted to eat. - -For there were on that ship many children, and when they heard that -Dido, the dancing bear, was also a passenger they gave him some of -their buns, apples and other good things. So Dido had a happy time. - -Once there was a big storm, and the ship almost turned a somersault, as -Dido himself had done in the woods. But the storm passed, the sun came -out, and the ocean grew quiet. Then Dido felt better. - -Now he was in New York with his keeper. As I have told you, a big city -is not a good place for a bear to live. Of course there is enough for -him to eat, if he can get it, but there are not many trees, except in -the streets, and policemen don’t like to see bears climbing the city -trees. And in a city there are no lakes of blue water, in which bears -may swim. - -But Dido’s master took him to a stable where there were many horses, -and here Dido felt quite at home, though at first the horses were -frightened when they smelled the bear. For horses smell in much the -same way as do bears. If you have ever held out an apple, or a lump -of sugar, to a horse you have seen him smell it before he tasted it. -All animals do this. They can often smell better than they can see, -and they tell, in that way, whether a thing is good for them to eat. -So when the horses smelled Dido, the dancing bear, they were a bit -frightened, as they were not used to wild animals, and they thought -Dido was wild. But when they saw him do some of his tricks, which he -did for practice in the barn, the horses were afraid no more. - -“We will stay in this stable a little while,” said Dido’s master to -him, “and then we will go out in the country, and people will give us -money when you dance.” - -One day Dido’s keeper went out and stayed a long time. When he came -back he was very happy. - -“Ah, Dido!” cried the man, “we are going to a circus. You are going -to do some tricks there. We shall have a good time, and I will get -money to buy buns for you. After the circus we will go out in the nice -country, where the trees grow as they do on the mountain where I caught -you.” - -Dido did not know what a circus was, but he soon found out. - -In New York City is a place called Madison Square Garden. It is a big -building, and on top of the tower, where the pigeons live, is a statue -of a golden lady, with a bow and arrow. The lady is named Diana, and, -many, many years ago, she used to hunt wild animals in the woods of her -country. Perhaps that is why they have the circus in Madison Square -Garden. - -A circus there is not like one in a tent. All the animals and all the -performers are in one big building. The animals are mostly down in the -basement, as they call it. - -And it was there that Dido was taken by his keeper. The dancing bear -rode in a big express wagon, just as he had ridden down the mountain -after he had been caught in the trap-cage. Only this time Dido was not -afraid, as his kind keeper was with him to pat him on the head and give -him sweet buns. - -Dido was taken into Madison Square Garden, and as soon as he got inside -he smelled the smell of many wild animals. He was not afraid, for he -was used to that smell. He could tell there were other bears in the -circus, and he saw them in cages, but none of them were let go about as -was he. - -And Dido saw camels, lions, tigers, monkeys, ponies, horses, and many -other animals. - -Dido’s master led him down where the animals were kept, and chained him -to a post, with some water near by for him to drink, and some bread and -buns to eat. - -“I am going away for a little while, Dido,” the man said. “But I will -soon be back. Then we will go up in the circus ring and you will do -your tricks for the boys and girls. Be a good bear while I am away.” - -Dido ate a bun, drank some water, and looked about him. Over in one -corner the dancing bear saw a queer animal, who seemed to have two -tails. - -“I beg your pardon, but who are you?” asked Dido, in the sort of talk -that all animals understand. - -“Who am I?” asked the big animal who seemed to have two tails. “Why I -am Tum Tum, the jolly elephant.” - -“Tum Tum, eh?” exclaimed Dido. “That is a nice name, but you are a -funny chap, with two tails.” - -“Ah, that is where you make a mistake,” said Tum Tum, as he chewed a -mouthful of hay. “I have only one tail. The other is my trunk that I -lift things with. It is really only a long nose, for I breathe through -it, but folks call it a trunk.” - -“Ah, I see,” spoke Dido. “I am sorry I thought you had two tails.” - -“Oh, that’s all right,” went on jolly Tum Tum. “Don thought the same -thing when he first saw me.” - -“Don? Who is Don?” asked Dido. - -“Don is a runaway dog. That is, he once ran away,” explained the -elephant, reaching for a peanut which a boy held out to him. “But Don -is home now after his many adventures.” - -“What are adventures?” asked Dido. - -“Things that happen to you,” answered Tum Tum. “I had many adventures, -and so did Don. A man wrote a book about each of us.” - -“What is a book?” asked Dido. - -“Oh, don’t ask me,” said Tum Tum. “All I know is that’s what they -called it. A book is a queer thing. It is square, like a loaf of -bread, but not so thick――at least the books about Don and me were not -so thick. And inside the book are thin pieces of something they call -pages, or leaves, though they are not green like the leaves of a tree. -The leaves in the book are white and on them are funny black marks. And -when boys and girls look at the funny black marks, which tell about Don -and me, they laugh, those boys and girls do, for I have heard them say -so when they come here to the circus to see me.” - -“I wonder if my adventures will ever be put in a book?” asked Dido. - -“Maybe so,” answered Tum Tum, the jolly elephant. “Have you had many -things happen to you?” - -“Oh, lots and lots!” cried the dancing bear. “I used to live in the -woods, and I went in a box to get some honey and I found myself in a -trap.” - -“That was an adventure,” said Tum Tum, “so I think you will be put in a -book.” - -Dido was very glad to meet the jolly elephant, and the two talked -together for some time. Then Tum Tum had to go up in the circus ring to -do his tricks, and, a little later, Dido’s master came for him. - -“Come, Dido,” said the man. “You are going to show the people what you -can do. I want you to dance, to turn somersaults, and to march like a -soldier. - -“There are no trees for you to climb, but there is a big post in the -circus ring, and you can climb that, I’m sure. I’ll give you a bun if -you do.” - -And Dido did climb the pole, and he did his other tricks, so that -the people in the circus, especially the boys and girls, laughed and -clapped their hands to see Dido, the dancing bear, and Tum Tum, the -jolly elephant. - -Then one day Dido’s keeper said to him: - -“Come, Dido, the circus is going to move away from New York, so we will -move, too. Only we will go out in the country by ourselves, and we will -travel along so you can do your tricks, and I can gather the pennies in -my hat.” - -The next day Dido and his keeper rode out in the country in a railroad -train. Dido slept in a corner of a baggage car, where the trunks were. -He liked the train better than the ocean ship, for it did not go up and -down so much, though it moved faster. - -“Ah, here we are in the country!” cried Dido’s keeper, as he led him -out of the car. - -“And now, I suppose,” thought Dido, “I will have some more adventures, -and they may be put into a book, as Tum Tum’s were.” - -[Illustration: Dido, the dancing bear and Tum Tum, the jolly elephant.] - - - - -CHAPTER VII - -DIDO MEETS DON - - -Dido, the dancing bear, looked about him as he stepped down out of the -railroad car. The train had stopped at a small country station, and -when some men and boys, who were waiting on the platform, saw the bear -they crowded up close to have a better look at him. - -“Say, he’s a big fellow!” said one boy, not coming too close. - -“Will he bite?” asked another. - -“No, Dido is a good bear. He will not bite,” the keeper answered. “He -can do many tricks.” - -Dido felt proud and happy when he heard this, for he was now able to -understand much that his master said. And Dido was really growing to -be a big bear. He was not a little bear cub any longer, but quite fat. -For he had good things to eat, and he did not have to travel over the -mountain to get them. - -“Please make your bear do some tricks,” said a man to the keeper, whose -name, I have forgotten to tell you, was George. “Make the bear do some -funny tricks.” - -“Will you give me pennies if I do?” George asked. “I need the pennies -to buy things for Dido and me to eat.” - -“Go ahead and have the bear do tricks, and we’ll give you pennies,” -another man said with a smile. - -So George, the dancing bear’s trainer, led Dido back of the railroad -station, where there was a nice, shady, grassy spot. Dido looked all -around and he saw that they were indeed in the country. There were -only a few houses here and there, and afar off he could see woods and -mountains, almost like those in his own land. Dido sniffed the air. -It was pure and sweet, much nicer than the air in New York, or in any -city, Dido thought. - -“I am going to like it in the country, I’m sure,” said the bear to -himself. “But I wish my adventures would begin so they could be put in -a book. I wonder who will do it?” - -Of course Dido had had some adventures, though perhaps he did not know -it, and he was going to have more, and I have put them in this book, -though I don’t believe Dido knows me. I have often seen him, however, -and fed him buns. - -“Come now, Dido, get ready to do some tricks!” called George. “You are -going to dance for the people. Dance nice now!” - -Then the man played a tooting tune on his brass horn. - -“Toodle-de-doodle-de-do!” played the man, and when Dido heard that -music he knew it was the kind to which he danced. So he stood up on his -hind legs, held his fore paws limply out in front of him, and began to -lift first one foot and then the other, going around and around, just -like a person waltzing. - -“That’s it, Dido! That’s the way to do it!” cried his keeper. “Dance -for the people!” And he played a faster tune on the brass horn, so that -Dido got quite dizzy from going around so fast. But the man did not -make him do this very long. - -“Good! Good!” cried the people who stood in a ring around Dido as he -danced. “That was fine!” - -“Did you like it?” asked George. “I am glad, and Dido is glad, too; -aren’t you, Dido?” and reaching in the bag which he carried over his -shoulder the man gave Dido a sweet bun. - -Dido was glad to get that, whether or not he was glad to dance. But I -think he liked dancing, too, for bears seem to be fond of going about -doing their little tricks. - -“Can your bear do anything else?” asked a lady in the crowd. - -“Many more things,” answered George. “He will now play he is a soldier. -Hi, Dido! March like a soldier! Here is your gun!” and he tossed Dido -the stick which was carried along, just to be used in this trick. - -Dido stood up as straight as he could, and held the stick in his paw, -up over his shoulder. - -“Good, Dido!” cried George. “Now what do you do when you meet an -officer?” - -Dido raised his other paw and touched his head, making what is called a -salute, which soldiers always give their officers when they meet. - -“Now march, Dido!” cried George, and as he played a marching tune on -the brass horn Dido marched around, carrying the stick for a gun. - -The people clapped their hands at that, and when the keeper passed -around his hat many cents and some dimes jingled into it, to buy more -buns for Dido, and other things for the keeper to eat. - -“Make him do some more tricks, please,” begged a boy in the crowd. “I -have another penny.” - -“Ha! Very good!” cried George. “Dido, shall we do some more tricks for -the little boy who has a penny?” Then George made believe whisper that -question in Dido’s ear, and next the man pretended to put his ear down -to Dido’s mouth as if to listen for an answer. - -“Yes, Dido says he will do another trick for you,” said the man, -laughing. - -Of course Dido did not really speak to his trainer, for though a bear, -a dog or other animals can understand much that is said to them they -can not answer back. But the man just pretended Dido did answer so as -to make a little fun, and the people laughed. - -“Now, Dido, do your somersault trick,” said George. “All ready!” - -He blew a sharp blast on the horn, and Dido leaned down, put his head -on the ground, kicked his hind legs up in the air, and over he went, -turning a somersault just as some fat little boy might do it on the -soft, green grass. - -“Another, Dido! Turn another somersault!” cried George, and over went -Dido again, while the people laughed. Then Dido stood up straight once -more, and saluted like a soldier. - -“Did you like that trick, little boy?” asked George. - -“Very much,” the little boy answered. “And here is my penny,” and he -tossed it into the man’s hat. - -“Now for a last trick, and then we will travel on farther into the -country,” said Dido’s master. “Do the tree-climbing trick, Dido. Only -instead of a tree you will climb a telegraph pole.” - -There was a pole near the railroad depot, and soon Dido was going up -this, sticking his sharp claws in the wood. Up and up he went, nearly -to the top, as far as his chain would let him, the man holding the end -of it. - -“That’s far enough――come on down, Dido!” called the man, and Dido came -down. He was given another bun to eat, and after this he drank some -water from a fountain near the depot. - -Dido and George traveled on into the green country. A few boys followed -them a little way, for some of them had never seen a bear before. -But soon the boys grew tired, and Dido and his master were left to -themselves. - -“We will go to a quiet place in the woods and sleep,” said George, and -Dido was glad of this, for he wanted to cool off and get quiet after -his ride in the train and doing his tricks. - -In the afternoon, when they had had a good sleep, the dancing bear and -his keeper traveled on again. Soon they came to another town, and there -Dido did his tricks over once more, and the man gathered money in his -hat. And here Dido’s master met a man from his own country, far over -the sea. The two men were glad to see one another, and talked much in -their own language. - -“Will you not come along with Dido and me?” asked George of this man, -whose name was Tom. “We can travel together, and you can blow the horn -while I make Dido do tricks. Come, travel about the country with us.” - -“Yes, I will do that,” Tom said, and so all three started off together. -Dido liked Tom very much, for Tom gave the dancing bear some sweet -popcorn balls, of which Dido was very fond. - -For a week or more Dido traveled about with George and Tom, doing -tricks, sometimes in little country towns, and again in cities. And one -day, when they were out in the country, Dido had a little adventure. - -They were marching along the road, when Dido saw, coming toward them an -automobile, with a man on the front seat steering, while in back were a -boy and a girl, and two dogs. - -All at once there was a loud banging noise, like a gun. But it was not -a gun. One of the automobile tires had burst. Then the man jumped out -to fix a new tire on the wheels, and the boy and girl, with the two -dogs, got out to rest in the shade. - -Tom blew a little music on the horn, and this made the boy and girl -look down the road. - -“Oh, look!” cried the girl, whose name was Alice. “What is that? A -bear! I’m afraid!” - -“Don’t be afraid,” said the boy, whose name was Bob. “It is only a -tame, trained bear.” - -The two dogs barked at the bear, and then Dido, who, with the two men, -had come closer to the automobile, said: - -“Don’t be afraid of me, doggies. I won’t hurt any one. I am only going -to do some tricks.” - -“Can your bear do tricks?” asked the boy of George. - -“He surely can,” answered Dido’s keeper, and Dido turned somersaults, -marched around like a soldier, and climbed a telegraph pole. - -“It certainly is a good trick,” said one dog. “I can do some myself, -but I can’t climb telegraph poles. What is your name, dancing bear?” he -asked. - -“My name is Dido. What’s yours?” - -“My name is Don,” said the dog, “and this is my friend Rex,” and he -waved his tail at the other dog. - -“What! Is your name Don?” cried Dido in surprise. “Why I have heard -about you!” - -“Who from?” asked Don. - -“From Tum Tum.” - -“What! That jolly elephant in the circus?” asked Don, himself quite -excited now. - -“That’s the one,” answered Dido. “I was in the circus a little while -when it showed in Madison Square Garden, in New York, and there I met -Tum Tum. He spoke about you, and said you had had many adventures.” - -“So I have,” Don said. “I am a runaway dog, that is, I once was, and -there is a book telling all about me,” he added, proudly. - - - - -CHAPTER VIII - -DIDO HELPS A GIRL - - -“See how friendly our dogs are with the dancing bear,” said Alice, the -girl, to Bob, the boy. - -“Our bear is very good and tame, and he likes good dogs,” spoke George. - -“Where did you get him?” asked the boy, for the automobile tire was not -yet fixed, and they still had to wait beside the country road. - -“I caught Dido on top of a mountain, in the woods, in a far country,” -said the man. “I put some honey in a box and when he went in to get it -the door fell shut and he could not get out. Then I trained him, and -brought him to this country. He was a little fellow then, and he used -to growl at me, but now he likes me, I think, for I try to be kind to -him.” - -“Yes, I do like you,” said Dido to himself. “He is good to me,” he -added, speaking to the two dogs. - -For though Dido, Don and Rex could understand most of the talk that -went on, they themselves could not speak to the men, or to the boy or -girl. Then the man told the boy and girl how Dido had learned to dance, -just as I have told you in the first part of this book. - -“Did it all happen that way?” asked Don, of Dido, for the dogs and bear -were resting in the shade now. - -“That’s just the way it happened,” Dido said. “I lived in the woods -with my father and mother, and my brothers Gruffo and Muffo. But I like -it here now better than in the woods.” - -“And how is Tum Tum, the jolly elephant?” asked Don. - -“Very well,” answered Dido, “and as fond of peanuts as ever.” - -“Yes, he always did like them,” barked Don, “but, as for me, I never -could see much in them. The shells get in my teeth.” - -“Tum Tum eats them, shells and all,” Dido said. - -“Well, remember me to him when next you see him,” went on the dog who -had once run away. “Tell him I would like to see him again.” - -“I shall,” Dido promised, “though I don’t know when I may meet him -again. He is in the circus, you know, and I am traveling about the -country. Still I may see him.” - -By this time the automobile tire was mended and the man called to the -boy and girl to get in. - -“That means we shall have to go also,” said Don. “Well, good-by, Dido. -I am glad to have met you.” - -“And so am I,” said Rex, the other dog. Then they rubbed noses -together, which is a sort of way animals have of shaking hands, I -suppose; and then they parted. - -“Don’t forget to tell Tum Tum what I told you!” barked Don, with a wag -of his tail, as he jumped up with the boy and girl. - -“I’ll not,” promised Dido, waving his paw at the two dogs. - -Then the automobile puffed away and Tom and George led Dido down the -country road, now and then stopping in front of a house to blow a tune -on the brass horn, so Dido could do his tricks. - -That night it rained, so the two men with the dancing bear could not -sleep out in the woods. They looked around until they found a barn, and -they asked the farmer if they might sleep in that. - -“If you will kindly let us,” said George, “we will make our bear do -tricks for you, and you will not need to give us any money in the hat.” - -“Very well,” the farmer said; “you and Dido may sleep on the hay in my -barn. And I will give you something to eat, though I do not know what -bears like.” - -“He likes buns especially,” said George, “and I have none for him in my -bag. He ate the last one this noon, and since then we have not come to -a bakery where I could buy more.” - -“Likes buns, does he?” asked the farmer’s wife. “Well, I have some, but -they have raisins in. Do you think Dido would not like them on that -account?” - -“Raisins in the buns!” cried George, making a low bow. “Why he will -like them all the better on that account. The buns I give him only have -little currants in. He will like raisins very much better indeed.” - -And Dido did. He thought he had never tasted such good buns as those -the farmer’s wife gave him. And Dido did all his tricks in the barn -that night, safe and dry from the rain. The farmer and his wife, the -hired man and some boys and girls, came from nearby houses to watch -Dido do his tricks, and no one had to give a cent because the farmer -had been kind to the men, and the farmer’s nice wife had been very good -to Dido. - -The next morning the sun shone, for the rain had stopped, and after -Dido had taken a bath, in the big trough where the farm horses drank, -he and his two masters started off down the country road again, having -had a good breakfast. - -The farmer’s wife gave George more raisin-buns to put in his bag for -Dido, and the dancing bear was very glad when he saw them. - -“I shall not be hungry to-day,” said Dido to himself. - -That day they passed through two or three small towns, and Dido did his -tricks several times, so that the hat of George had quite some money in -it. And that night the men and their trained bear slept in the woods, -with moss for a bed and the blankets they carried with them for covers. -Dido’s fur was _his_ blanket. - -Dido awakened early the next morning, before either of the men. He -looked at them sleeping near him, and then he rolled over on the bed of -moss, stretched his strong legs, scratched with his claws on the soft -ground and opened his mouth to stretch that in a big yawn. - -Then Dido stood up, and he saw that during the night the chain, which -George always used to fasten him to a tree, had come loose. - -“Why, I could run away if I wanted to,” thought Dido. “I could slip off -in the woods and run away, as Don, the dog, did. Only I won’t. George -would feel badly, and, besides, I might not be able to get anything to -eat. These woods may not be like the woods on the mountain where I used -to live. I guess I will not run away. I will just walk down to that -little brook and get a drink.” - -Not far from where the men and bear had slept that night was a nice -brook, bubbling over green, mossy stones. Dido went down to the bank of -it, and, as he was getting a drink, he saw some fish swimming about. - -“Ha! Fish!” said Dido to himself. “That’s good. Here is my breakfast -all ready and waiting for me――if I can catch one.” - -The dancing bear leaned over the water as his father and mother had -taught him to do. He had not forgotten. Dido waited. Pretty soon he -saw, swimming along, a big, shiny fish. - -“Ah, ha!” thought Dido. “I guess I can get you!” - -Down he scooped with his paw, getting his claws under the fish, and out -of the water he lifted him. - -“Oh, look!” cried Tom, awakening just in time to see Dido toss the fish -out on the bank. “What is our bear doing?” - -“He is getting his breakfast,” answered George. “Wild bears often catch -fish that way. But this is the first time I ever saw Dido do it. I wish -he would catch some for us.” - -And Dido did, though he did not know he was catching fish for his -masters. He thought they would all be for him. But Dido pulled out of -the brook more fish than he really needed, and Tom and George built a -fire and cooked some for themselves. Dido did not bother about a fire. -He was afraid of a blaze, as all animals are. - -After their breakfast in the woods, Dido and his masters marched on -again. Whenever they came to a village Tom would blow on the brass -horn, and Dido would dance around, turn somersaults, march like a -soldier and climb a tree or telegraph pole. The people liked to see -this last more than anything else, and Dido liked to climb, for he was -used to that. He really liked it better than turning somersaults, for -much dust got in his thick fur when he got down and rolled over on the -ground. - -Dido was a clean bear, and whenever he became dusty and dirty he wanted -a bath. And whenever they came to a lake or stream of water Dido was -allowed to go in, and splash about as much as he pleased. - -One hot afternoon Dido was asleep in the woods with the two men. They -had performed the tricks in one village, and were going on to another, -taking a rest in between. - -Once again Dido awakened to find his two masters asleep, but this time -the chain was still fast to a tree, so Dido could not wander very far. -He got up and walked about, and, as he did so he heard, off through the -woods, the barking of a dog, and then a scream. - -[Illustration: Just as the dog was going to jump Dido stepped in -between them.] - -All at once Dido saw a girl running along the path in the woods, and -behind the girl came a big black dog, barking angrily, and trying to -catch the girl. - -“Oh, stop him! Somebody please stop him!” screamed the girl. “He is a -bad dog and wants to bite me!” - -Of course Dido did not know all the girl said, but he could see that -the dog was angry and had sharp teeth. He might bite the girl, though -why any dog should want to bite such a nice girl Dido could not tell. - -“Don’t let him get me!” begged the girl, and she ran toward Dido and -the two men, who were now awake. - -“Here!” cried Dido to the bad dog in animal language. “You let that -girl alone!” - -“No, I’ll not!” barked the dog. “I am going to bite her!” - -“Oh, no, you’re not!” said Dido, and he growled now, for he did not -like this kind of a dog. Then, just as the dog was going to jump at the -girl, Dido stepped in between them, and, with one sweep of his big paw, -the dancing bear knocked the dog to one side, so that he rolled over -and over in the leaves. - -“There! Now I guess you’ll let little girls alone!” said Dido, standing -ready to knock the dog away again if he sprang at the girl. - - - - -CHAPTER IX - -DIDO IN THE BAKERY - - -“Don’t be afraid, little girl, we won’t let the bad dog hurt you,” said -the man named George. “Whose dog is he?” - -“He――he belongs to a tin peddler,” said the little girl. “I was walking -along the road just now and a boy, behind me, threw a stone at the dog. -I guess the dog must have thought I threw it, for he chased after me, -and I ran, for I was afraid he would bite me.” - -“I guess he would have, if he had caught you,” remarked Tom. “But Dido -knocked him out of the way.” - -“Is Dido the name of your bear?” asked the girl. - -“Yes,” answered George. “Dido is our bear.” - -“It’s a pretty name,” said the little girl. - -Dido, who was watching to see if the dog would get up and run at the -little girl again, wondered what her name was. - -“So she likes my name,” said Dido to himself. “I wonder if she likes -me?” - -The bad dog got up from the pile of leaves where Dido had knocked him. -He growled, deep down in his throat, and Dido called: - -“Be careful! Don’t try any of your bad tricks around here. Are you -going to bite this little girl?” - -“No, I am not,” said the dog. “I guess I made a mistake. I thought she -threw a stone at me, but perhaps she did not.” - -“She doesn’t look like a girl who would throw stones at a dog or a -bear,” Dido said. “You had better let her alone and go back where you -belong.” - -“I will,” said the dog, limping as he went away. “I am sorry I chased -after her.” - -“And I am sorry I had to hit you so hard with my paw,” spoke the -dancing bear. “But it was the only way to stop you from jumping on the -little girl.” - -“Yes, I suppose so. You made me a little lame, but I guess that could -not be helped. It was my own fault, but I surely thought she threw a -stone at me. Good-by, Mr. Bear.” - -“Good-by, Mr. Dog,” answered Dido. “Next time we meet we shall be -friends.” - -“I hope so,” spoke the dog, limping away. - -“Oh, I am so glad he is gone!” the little girl said. “I was afraid of -him.” - -“Where do you live?” asked Tom, for of course the little girl could -not talk to the bear. - -“Just down the road, but I have to go past that dog to get to my -house,” she answered. “I am afraid.” - -“Never mind. We’ll walk with you,” said George, “and then the dog won’t -come near you.” - -Of course neither the men nor the little girl knew that the peddler’s -dog had promised to be good. They had seen Dido and the dog close -together, but they did not know of what they were talking. - -“You are not afraid of our bear, are you?” asked Tom, as he picked up -the brass horn from where it had fallen in the moss as he slept. - -“Oh, no, I’m not a bit afraid of him,” answered the little girl, -looking at Dido. “He seems a nice, gentle bear.” - -“He is,” said George. “Would you like to see him do some tricks?” - -“Oh, very much!” cried the little girl, clapping her hands. “Will he do -some tricks for me?” - -“I guess so,” answered George with a laugh. “Do some tricks for the -little girl you saved from the dog, Dido. Play a tune, Tom!” - -So Tom played a tune on the brass horn, and Dido danced there in the -woods, with only the little girl for an audience. But Dido did his -best, even though there was only one person to look on, besides Tom and -George. - -“Oh, what a funny trick!” laughed the little girl, whose name was Rose, -as she saw Dido turn a somersault. Dido did not mind turning head over -heels in the woods, for he could do it on the soft green moss, and his -fur did not get full of dust. - -“Now we will walk down the road to your home,” said George to the -little girl. “Then you will not be afraid of the dog.” - -But when they went out in the country road the peddler’s wagon was -gone, and the dog was not in sight. - -“There’s my house,” said the little girl, pointing to a white one down -the highway. - -Just then a woman came to the door of the house, and, looking down the -road, she saw her little girl walking with two men and a bear. - -“Oh, my goodness, Rose! What are you doing?” cried the woman, who was -the mother of Rose. “Where have you been? And what is that terrible -bear doing?” - -“He isn’t a terrible bear at all, Mamma,” answered Rose, laughing. “He -is a good trick bear, and he saved me from the bad dog.” And she told -about what had happened. - -“Well, if it’s a tame, trick bear, why I suppose that is different,” -said the woman. “I’m much obliged to you,” she added to the men, “for -having your bear save my little girl from the peddler’s dog.” - -“Dido did it all himself,” said George. “We were asleep when your Rose -came running along with the dog after her. Dido knocked him out of the -way.” - -“He must be a good bear,” said Rose’s mother. - -“He is!” cried the little girl. “You ought to see him do tricks, Mamma! -Will you let your bear do some tricks for my mother?” she asked. - -“Surely,” answered George. “Come on now, Dido!” - -So Dido did most of his tricks again, and when they were finished the -woman brought out some sugar cookies and other things, giving some to -the men and some to Dido. - -“Oh, how good they are!” thought the dancing bear, chewing a cookie. -“They are as good as the buns with raisins in which the other lady gave -me.” - -“Come, now, we must travel on,” called George to Dido, after a bit. “It -is very nice here, but we must go to a place where we can get money in -the hat when you do your tricks.” - -So off started the two men with the dancing bear once more. For several -days they traveled, first stopping in one country village and then in -another, Dido doing his tricks very nicely. - -Then for two days it rained, and as no one wanted to stand out in the -rain to see even a dancing bear there was nothing to do save to stay in -barns, or under sheds, until the weather cleared. - -For George and Tom did not stop at hotels very often as they traveled -about with Dido. In the first place it cost too much money, and as the -weather was warm, and as George and Tom were sort of Gypsies they liked -to sleep out of doors nights, except when it rained. Then they would -find a haystack, or a barn, and get shelter. - -Another reason they did not stop at hotels was because people who kept -them did not like bears in their places. Dido would have had to stay -out in the stable, and some horses are afraid of bears. - -So it was not so nice for the men when it rained, though Dido did -not mind. His fur was so thick that it took a lot of rain to wet him -through, and he was fond of water anyhow. - -But when it rained, and there was no one to watch Dido do his tricks, -of course no money came into the hat, and when there were no pennies -there was not so much to eat. So you see, after all, rain is not any -too good for a dancing bear. - -But after a while the clouds rolled away, the sun came out and Dido and -his masters were glad. Once more they started off down the country -roads, Tom tooting on the horn and George putting Dido through his -tricks. - -One day after Dido had done his dance in the streets of a small city -his two masters saw another man, like themselves. This man had a -hand-organ and a monkey, and he went about making music while the -monkey collected pennies in his red hat. Tom and George stopped for a -minute to talk to the hand-organ man, whom they had known years before. - -“What is your name?” asked Dido of the monkey, when they found their -masters paying no attention to them. - -“Jacko,” answered the monkey. “What’s yours?” - -“Dido; and I can dance. Can you?” - -“No, but I can gather pennies in my hat. Can you do that?” - -Dido said he could not. He did not have a hat, anyhow. The bear and -monkey talked together, just as their masters were doing, but in a -different way of course. Then Jacko said: - -“I have a cousin, a monkey named Mappo. Did you ever see him?” - -“No,” replied Dido, “but I have met Don, the runaway dog, and Tum Tum, -the jolly elephant.” - -“Why, Mappo, my cousin, knows them!” cried Jacko. “I have often -heard him speak of them. Mappo is such a merry monkey. He had many -adventures, and they have all been put in a book.” - -“My! It seems every one is getting in books,” said Dido. “I hope to -have one written about me. But say! I’m hungry, aren’t you?” - -“Yes, I am,” answered Jacko. - -“My master always feeds me buns after I finish my tricks,” went on -the dancing bear, “but I guess he is so busy talking now that he has -forgotten it.” - -“I wish we could get something to eat,” spoke Jacko. “Oh, look, Dido, -there’s a bakery store over there, and I see buns and cake in the -window, besides cookies.” - -“So there are!” said Dido. - -“Let’s go over and see if they will give us any,” went on the monkey -who was a cousin to Mappo. “My chain is loose, and I can easily run -over there.” - -“My chain is loose, too,” said Dido. “Come on, we’ll go over to the -bakery and perhaps we can find some buns.” - -Across the street went Dido and Jacko. Their masters were so busy -talking about their travels that they did not notice the two animals. -And, as it happened, the boy who had been left in charge of the bakery -had gone out to watch the dancing bear, and he was now standing -looking at the hand-organ, and wishing he had one like it. So he did -not see Dido and the monkey go in the bakery. - -The dancing bear and the monkey went in the bakery. No one else was -there. In the window was a pile of cakes and buns. - -“Oh, I am so hungry!” said Dido. - -“So am I!” cried Jacko. - -“I’ll tell you what let’s do,” said Dido. “Let’s take some buns, and -when our masters get through talking they will come in and pay for -them.” - -“All right,” said Jacko, and he reached over in the bakery window and -took a paw full of buns. Dido did the same thing, and then the bear and -the monkey began to eat. - - - - -CHAPTER X - -DIDO SCARES A MAN - - -“Aren’t these buns fine?” asked Dido, as he reached for another, which -had a big raisin on the top, something like the kind the farmer’s wife -made. - -“They are very good,” said Jacko, the hand-organ monkey. “I don’t know -when I have had better buns. I’m glad we came in here.” - -“So am I,” replied Dido. “Have you tried one of these sugar cookies?” - -“No,” answered Jacko, “I haven’t. I’ve been so busy eating buns――” - -“Oh, do try a cookie,” and the dancing bear, with his big paw, like a -hand, held something out to the monkey. - -“Aren’t they good?” asked Dido, after Jacko had taken a taste of the -cookie. - -“Indeed, yes. I’ll have another.” - -So the bear and the monkey ate cookies and buns, and then Jacko found a -little cake, with sugar on the top. - -“Oh, Dido!” he chattered. “These cakes are the best yet. Try one.” - -So Dido did, and he liked it very much. - -By this time the crowd of persons who had gathered about to watch the -dancing bear and the monkey saw the two animals over in the bakery. But -the three men――that is, the two who owned the dancing bear, and the one -who had the hand-organ――were still so busy talking that they did not -notice what was going on. - -“Oh, look! The bear and monkey are eating everything in the bakery!” -cried a little girl. The boy who had been left in charge of the shop -heard this and back across the street he rushed. He did not wish for a -hand-organ any more. - -The people stood in a crowd outside the bakery. The boy who should have -been in the shop, but who had run out, cried: - -“Let me get in there! Let me in! I must drive out that bear and monkey, -or the baker will say it is my fault for letting them in!” - -“You’d better not go in,” said a man. “The monkey would not hurt you, -but the bear might. Call the bear’s keepers.” - -“Yes, that’s the best thing to do,” said a woman. - -But before the boy could do this Jacko and Dido were eating more cakes -from the windows. Then they found some pies, and they liked those so -much they ate three, Dido taking two because he was largest, and needed -more. - -“What are all the people watching us for?” asked Jacko, as he looked to -see what next he would take. - -“Oh, I guess they think we are doing tricks,” said Dido. “But we are -only eating because we are hungry.” - -“And when our masters get through talking they will pay for what we -have had,” said Jacko. - -Just then the baker, who had been down in the cellar of his shop, -making bread and cake, came up into the store, thinking, of course, -that the boy he had left in charge, to wait on customers, would be -there. Instead of that the baker saw the bear and monkey eating things -from his show window. - -“Oh, my! Oh, my! Oh, my!” cried the baker, three times, just like that, -he was so surprised. “Oh! Oh! Oh!” - -Then he ran back down in the cellar and locked the door after him. But -he need not have been afraid, for neither Dido nor Jacko would have -harmed him in the least. - -By this time George, Tom and the hand-organ man saw what was happening. -They looked across the street and saw the crowd in front of the bakery, -and also saw Dido and Jacko still eating cake. - -“Oh, my!” cried George. “We shall have to pay a lot of money for what -our bear has eaten.” - -[Illustration: Jacko and Dido were eating cakes from the window.] - -“And I will have to pay for what my monkey took,” said the hand-organ -man. - -“But they knew no better,” said George, kindly. “They were hungry, I -guess. But now they must have had enough.” - -And Dido and Jacko did have enough. Never before had they had such -a fine feast. I forget just how much money the bear men and the -hand-organ man had to pay, but it was quite a sum, for the monkey and -bear had eaten many buns, pies, cookies and cakes. A bear is very big, -and when he is hungry he can eat much. - -“You will have to do a lot of dancing and tricks to make up for all the -bakery things you took,” said George to Dido. But the bear did not mind -that, for he had had so many good things to eat. - -For two or three days more Dido traveled on with his masters, going -from place to place, in towns and little villages where the bear did -his tricks. - -And the people, especially the boys and girls, liked them so much that -they tossed many cents and dimes into the hat of George, so that he had -enough to buy things for himself, for Tom and for Dido, and the bear -did not have to go in any more bake shops all by himself. - -Sometimes when Dido was doing his tricks, dogs would gather outside -the crowd of people watching, and would bark. For the dogs were a bit -afraid of the bear, and did not like him. That is why they barked. - -Once a dog who did not know that Dido was tame, and was kind and good, -tried to bite the dancing bear. - -Dido was now so large and strong that he might easily have hurt the dog -badly by one blow of his big paw. But instead of doing that Dido just -gently pushed the dog out of the way, and over into a watering trough, -where horses drank. - -When the people saw this they laughed, and then that dog did not feel -much like biting Dido. The dog was ashamed of himself, and away he ran, -with his tail tucked between his legs. - -“Good bear!” said George. “That’s the way to treat barking dogs.” - -Another time in a small town, where Dido was doing his tricks in the -park, a team of horses were driven past. They smelled the wild smell of -the bear, which was more plain to them than to the people, and started -to run away. - -A lady and little girl were in the carriage and they might have been -hurt had the horses gone far. But Tom, who was getting ready to blow a -marching tune on the brass horn, for Dido to do his trick, dropped the -horn and sprang for the horses. - -He caught them by the bridles and held them so they could not run, and -the lady and little girl were not hurt. - -“You are a good man to stop the runaway horses,” said a man in the -crowd. - -“Well, it was the fault of our bear that the team started to run,” said -Tom, “so I knew it was my place to stop them.” - -And when the horses saw that Dido was not going to chase after them, or -do them any harm, they were not frightened any more, but stood still, -so the lady and little girl in the carriage could watch the tricks -which Dido did. - -That night Dido and his masters slept under a warm stack of hay in a -field, and a farmer gave them some good things to eat, because he liked -animals. Dido did some tricks that evening in front of the farmhouse, -before a crowd of boys and girls. - -Early the next morning Dido awoke in his warm nest in the hay. He was -not tied to any tree now, for there was none in the field, and he could -wander about as he pleased. But by this time Dido was so tame that his -masters knew he would not run away. - -“I think I will take a walk before breakfast,” said Dido to himself, -“and see if I cannot find a brook with fish in. I should like a fish -very much.” - -Then Dido saw a telegraph pole beside the road near the field. - -“I think I will climb that pole, and see how sharp my claws are,” said -Dido to himself. “I must keep in practice and I have not climbed any -poles in two or three days.” - -So, having eaten all the red berries he wanted, Dido started to climb -up the telegraph pole. He had not gone very far up it before he heard -some one shouting at him. Looking up Dido saw a man on top of the pole. - -“Hello!” said Dido to himself; “I did not know men could climb poles -like a bear. I wonder who you are and how you did it?” - -The man worked for a telephone company, and on his boots he had sharp, -iron spurs, like a bear’s claws, and by sticking these spurs in the -wood of the pole the man could climb up. - -But the man, who was out early fixing broken wires on the pole, looking -down and seeing a bear coming up after him, was much frightened. - -“I say!” he cried. “Go on back! Don’t come up here after me! Go on -down! Get away!” - -The man shouted loudly, but Dido did not understand why he, himself, -should stop climbing a pole on that account, so on he kept going up -higher and higher. - -“Go back! Go back!” yelled the man. But Dido would not. - - - - -CHAPTER XI - -DIDO IN THE CIRCUS - - -“What in the world is the matter with that man?” thought Dido, as the -dancing bear kept on climbing up the pole. “He acts so funny, just as -if he did not want me to come near him. My master does not act so. For, -though I know I used to be cross and growl at my master, and though I -was afraid of all men, I am not that way any more. I like men. He looks -like a nice man, up on the pole, and I want to see him. I never before -saw a man who could climb a telegraph pole as well as I can.” - -So Dido kept on climbing up, and the man continued to yell and shout. -He went as far up the pole as he could get, and sat down on a stick -of wood that stuck out crossways. There were wires made fast to glass -knobs on the ends of these pieces of wood. - -“He certainly is a queer man,” thought Dido. “He acts just as if he -didn’t like me. Well, I’ll soon show him that I won’t hurt him. I -wonder if he has a bun in his pocket?” - -Then, all of a sudden, Dido saw the man throw something down. - -“Ah! Perhaps that is a bun,” thought Dido. - -But Dido felt the thing the man had thrown down hit him hard on his -nose, and it hurt so that the dancing bear gave a growl and a howl. It -was a hard screwdriver that had hit Dido on the nose. The telephone -lineman had thrown his screwdriver at the bear. - -“Ouch!” said Dido to himself. “That was not nice! I wonder if he did -that on purpose?” - -Dido stopped climbing for a moment, and looked up at the man. Then the -dancing bear rubbed his nose with his paw. A bear’s nose is very soft -and tender, and when he is hit there it hurts him very much. - -Then, as Dido was rubbing his sore nose, all of a sudden, Bang! -something else was thrown by the man. It was a pair of pliers, for -cutting wire, and they hit Dido on the paw he was holding up. - -“Ha!” thought the dancing bear. “It is a good thing I had my paw over -my nose, or I would be hurt worse than ever. I wonder why that man is -throwing things at me, and shouting so?” - -Just then Tom and George, the keepers of the bear, came running out -of the field where they had been asleep under the haystack. They had -awakened, missed Dido, and had come to search for him. - -“Why, look at our bear!” cried George. “He is up the pole.” - -“So he is!” exclaimed Tom, in surprise. - -Then the telephone lineman on the pole saw the other two men. - -“Hi, there!” he called to them. “Is this your bear?” - -“Surely that is our bear,” answered George. - -“Well, then, I wish you’d call him down!” went on the lineman. “He -chased up here after me to bite and scratch me. Call him down.” - -“Ha! No!” laughed George. “Dido would never climb up to bite or scratch -you. He is too good a bear for that. He is just climbing the pole, as -that is one of his tricks.” - -“What! Is this a trick bear? Is he tame?” asked the man high up on the -pole. - -“Of course he is tame,” said George. - -“And he won’t hurt me?” - -“Not a bit. He just wants to be friends with you.” - -“Oh, then I am very sorry,” said the lineman quickly. - -“Sorry for what?” asked Tom, curiously. - -“That I threw my screwdriver and my pliers at your bear,” answered the -man on the telegraph pole. “I hit him on the nose. I thought he was a -wild bear after me, or I never would have done it. I did not see any -men with him.” - -“Well, I guess Dido will forgive you for hitting him,” spoke George. -“Come on down, Dido, if the man is afraid of you.” - -“Oh, I am not afraid any more,” the telephone man said, laughing. - -Dido came down, and had his breakfast with George and Tom. Afterward -the telephone man climbed down, and gave Dido a piece of pie from his -dinner pail. - -“That is to pay you because I hit you on the nose,” said the man. “I am -very sorry, and so I give you this little treat.” - -And I think Dido understood, and forgave the man. For the dancing bear -ate the pie, and then, when George told him to, Dido let the lineman -pat him on the head. - -“Now we will travel on again,” said George after a bit, and away he and -Tom went with Dido, blowing nice tooting tunes on the brass horn, and -giving a dancing-bear show wherever they could find a crowd of persons -with money to toss into the hat. - -All through the long summer days Dido traveled about with his masters, -and then one day there came a change. One night, after he had danced -many times that day, Dido and his masters stopped at a hotel. Dido was -allowed to sleep out in the stable where there were no horses to be -frightened, while Tom and George went in the hotel to eat. - -The next morning Dido saw a strange man with his masters when they came -out to the stable to feed him. - -“There is our dancing bear,” said George to the new man. “Do you think -you would like to buy him?” - -“If he can do all the tricks you say he can I may,” answered the other -man. - -“I will show you what tricks he can do,” spoke George. “Come, Dido, -here is a sweet cracker for you. Now do your tricks.” - -So out in front of the stable Dido danced, marched like a soldier and -turned somersaults. - -“Those are good tricks,” said the strange man. “I will buy your bear -and take him to a circus. There I will have him do tricks in the ring. -Do you think he will?” - -“Oh, yes,” answered George. “He was in a circus once before, but for -only a little while. Perhaps he may remember about it.” - -The three men went back to the hotel, leaving some buns for Dido to -eat. And the dancing bear wondered what was going to happen to him. - -Pretty soon George came out to where Dido was chained in the stable. -George gave Dido a piece of berry pie, and said: - -“Good-by, Dido. Tom and I are going to sell you to this circus man. But -he will be good and kind to you, and teach you new tricks. So go with -him and be a good bear. Tom and I are going back to the mountains of -our own country, and perhaps we will catch more bears. Good-by, Dido.” - -Tom came out, and blew a sad little tune on the brass horn. Then he too -said good-by to Dido, and the two men who had traveled around with Dido -so many months went away. Dido ran after them as far as his chain would -let him, and then he lay down and put his head between his paws. - -Animals don’t cry, of course, but they can feel sad when their kind -masters or mistresses go away, and I am sure Dido felt sad. Dogs -sometimes feel so badly at being parted from their masters that they -will not eat. - -But Dido was not that way. A little later, when the circus man came out -to the stable with a nice piece of fish for the dancing bear, Dido ate -it and was very glad to get it. - -“Now, Dido,” said the man, “you are my bear, and I will be good to you. -We are not going about the country any more, to let you go dancing in -the streets and fields. You are going to perform in a circus ring, -under a tent, something like you did before, and I think you will like -it.” - -Then came a not very happy time for Dido. He was put in a big box, -something like the trap in which he had been caught. But this box was -larger, as Dido was a big bear now, and the box had water in it, and -nice things to eat. - -Then the box, with Dido in, was put on a wagon and taken to the -railroad station, where it was lifted on a train. Dido slept as much -as he could, for he did not like to travel that way. He would much -rather have tramped through the woods and over the fields. But soon his -journey was at an end. - -Still in his box he was taken from the train, and when the box was -opened Dido found himself in what he thought at first was a big white -house. In it were many other animals, in cages, as Dido could see, and -he could smell other animals whom he could not see. - -Dido walked out and rolled over in a pile of straw. It felt so good to -be out of that cage, that he wanted to laugh――and that is the way all -animals laugh. Then the dancing bear heard a voice saying close to his -ear: - -“Well, I do believe it’s my old friend Dido, whom I met in Madison -Square Garden, New York City! Aren’t you Dido, the dancing bear?” - -“That’s who I am,” answered Dido, standing up, “and you are――” - -“Tum Tum, the jolly elephant,” was the answer. “I’m glad to see you -again.” - -Dido looked around, and there, surely enough, was Tum Tum, holding out -his long nose, or trunk. Dido rubbed noses with him. - -“How did you get here?” asked Tum Tum. - -“Oh, my masters sold me to another man, and he said he was going to put -me in a circus. I guess this is it.” - -“Yes, this is the circus,” answered Tum Tum. “Only it is traveling -around now, instead of staying for weeks at a time in New York. We go -to a new city every day, and we have a big tent instead of Madison -Square Garden to act in. This white house you see over us is a tent.” - -“Oh, a tent, eh?” said Dido. “Well, it is quite nice.” - -“Yes, it is nice except in cold weather,” said the elephant, who not -having fur, could not stand cold as bears can. “In the winter there is -no circus in a tent,” said Tum Tum. - -“What do you do in winter?” asked Dido. - -“Oh, when it is time for the snow and ice the circus goes, I have been -told, up to a place where we stay in big, warm barns until summer comes -again.” - -Tum Tum told Dido many things about the circus, for which I have not -space in this book. And Dido also learned many new things. He learned -to sleep in a cage on wheels, in which he was drawn about the country, -or put on big, flat railroad cars to be pulled from place to place. -This was when the circus traveled, which was, nearly always, at night. - -And Dido’s new master taught him many new tricks which the dancing bear -did in the circus ring, besides doing the ones George had taught him. -Dido learned to ride on a bicycle, he learned to walk across a long -pole, that was resting on two barrels. He learned to roll over and over -inside a barrel, and he learned to let a dog sit on his back and be -given a ride. - -Dido liked it very much in the circus, and he made many friends, not -only among the animals but among the circus folk, for Dido was a gentle -bear. - -But best of all Dido liked Tum Tum, the jolly elephant. - -“I met a friend of yours while I was out traveling,” said Dido to the -circus elephant one day. - -“Who was it?” asked Tum Tum. - -“Don, the runaway dog.” - -“Oh, do tell me about him,” begged Tum Tum, as he ate a bag of peanuts -a little girl held out to him. So Dido told about meeting Don. - - - - -CHAPTER XII - -DIDO IN A FIRE - - -“What else did you do besides meeting Don?” asked Tum Tum, when the -dancing bear had finished telling about the runaway dog. - -“Oh, many things happened to me,” said Dido. “I had many adventures, as -many, I think, as would fill a book.” - -“Who knows?” asked Tum Tum. “Perhaps they will be put in a book. I -never thought my adventures would be printed, but they were. Just you -wait.” - -So Dido waited, and while he waited the circus went on from place -to place. People came into the big tent to look at the animals, and -watch those who, like Dido, did tricks. Very often Dido’s new master -would think up a different trick for Dido to do, and the bear was very -anxious to please. - -There was one trick Dido learned to do which he did not like at all, at -first. This was jumping through a big wooden ring which had little jets -of fire all around it. At least Dido thought it was fire, for the jets -glowed brightly, though they were not hot. - -At first when his master brought out this glowing, blazing hoop, or -ring, Dido shrank away from it. But his master stood on the other side -of it, holding out an apple and a bun. Dido wanted both, very much, -but when he walked around the outside of the hoop, instead of leaping -through it to get the treat, his master put them away. - -“No, no, Dido,” he said. “To get the apple and bun you must jump -through the hoop. Come on. It won’t hurt you. You know I would never do -anything to hurt you.” - -So, after a bit, Dido did jump through the blazing hoop to get the -apple, and he found he was not hurt in the least, nor burned. And, -later on, he learned that around the hoop were only tiny electric -lights, like those which are sometimes put on Christmas trees in place -of candles, and these lights you can hold in your hand without feeling -any heat. - -So Dido learned a new trick, and when he did it the people in the -circus tent clapped their hands loudly. By this time Dido had learned -that this meant they were pleased with him. - -The people also clapped when Tum Tum did his tricks, and one day Tum -Tum and Dido performed a trick together. They had to practice it a -long while, though, before it was well done. And this was the trick: - -On the broad, strong back of the jolly elephant was built a platform of -boards. It was square, and made so it could be lifted on and off, being -fastened on by broad straps, as are the little houses on the elephants’ -backs in circus parades. - -By means of a little ladder Dido and his new master could climb up to -this platform on Tum Tum’s back, and there, as the big elephant marched -around the ring, Dido did his dance, while the man played on the same -horn that Tom had used. - -Around and around on the platform up on the back of Tum Tum, the jolly -elephant, rode Dido and his master. Dido did such a funny dance that he -made the children laugh. - -“You are a very good bear,” said his master, patting him and giving him -two buns, one extra. - -Dido did many other tricks in the circus as it went from place to -place. But now the weather was getting cooler. - -“We shall soon go to our Winter quarters,” said Tum Tum. “And then for -some time we will stay in the same place, night after night.” - -“Oh, I don’t mind traveling,” spoke Dido. “I rather like it.” - -One day, as Dido was asleep in his cage after having done his tricks, -he heard a noise near the edge of the tent. It was a mewing, crying -sort of noise, and, the first thing Dido knew, something small and -black scrambled into his cage and hid down among the straw. - -“Hello there!” called Dido, in animal language. “Who are you?” - -“Oh, I’m Blackie,” was the answer. “Please don’t drive me out.” - -“Of course I won’t drive you out,” said Dido kindly. “But who are you, -and why is your name Blackie?” - -“I am a cat, and I am called Blackie because I am black,” was the -answer, and then a cat stuck her head out from under the straw in -Dido’s cage, where he always went to rest after having done his tricks. - -“What is the matter with you?” asked Dido. “You seem frightened.” - -“I am frightened,” said Blackie. “A lot of bad boys were chasing me and -throwing stones at me. I ran as fast as I could, but they nearly caught -me. But I saw this big white house and I ran in it. Then I saw a place -to hide under the straw in your cage-wagon, and I jumped up here.” - -“And you are very welcome,” said Dido kindly. “I am glad you got away -from the boys. But this is not a white house, though I thought it was -myself, at first.” - -“What is it?” asked Blackie. - -“It is a circus tent. If you like you may stay and see me do my tricks.” - -“Thank you, I would like to stay,” spoke Blackie, “but you see I am -trying to find my way home. I am lost.” - -“Lost!” exclaimed Dido. “That’s what happened to Don, the runaway dog. -He knows Tum Tum, our jolly elephant.” - -“Was Don lost?” asked Blackie. - -“Yes, but he found his home again.” - -“I hope I do,” said Blackie. “I used to live with a very nice little -boy and girl, who treated me kindly, and gave me warm milk for -breakfast. One day I strayed too far off, went in a vacant house and -was locked in. I found my way to the roof and, later, met a good lady -who cared for me. She took me out to the country in a basket, but when -the cover came loose I jumped out, thinking I could find my way back -home alone. But I can’t seem to, and I’ve walked ever and ever so far. -Then these boys chased me and I ran in here.” - -“Well, I wish I could help you, but I can’t leave the circus,” said -Dido. “Here is a bit of fish I didn’t need; you may have that, and -perhaps you will feel better after eating.” - -Blackie did. She thanked Dido very much and went to sleep in the straw -of the bear’s cage. One of the animal men saw her and gave her some -milk to drink. - -“Can’t you really stay and see me do some tricks?” asked Dido. - -“No, thank you,” spoke Blackie. “I’ll just peep out of this tent, as -you call it, and if the boys are gone I’ll trot along. Maybe I shall -find my home to-day.” - -Blackie looked out under the tent. She saw no boys. - -“Good-by!” called the lost cat to Dido. “I’m going away.” - -“I hope you find your home, and that I see you again,” said Dido. -“Good-by!” - -In a few more weeks the weather grew quite cool, and one day the big -circus tent was taken down for the last time, the cages were put on the -cars, and the circus started on a long journey. - -“Where are we going?” asked Dido of Tum Tum. - -“To the big barns I told you about,” answered the jolly elephant. “We -are going into winter quarters.” - -And, a few days later, there is where Dido found himself. He was still -kept in his cage, which was in a big barn with many other cages of -animals. There were horses and elephants in the barn, Tum Tum being -there, of course. - -Dido did not have to do his tricks every day now. But once a week or -so his master came to put him through them, to see that the bear had -not forgotten how to dance, or turn somersaults. - -It was nice and warm in the big circus barn, and the animals had enough -to eat, so they had a very good time of it. - -“Still I liked traveling about the country with George and Tom,” said -Dido. “It was real jolly sleeping out of doors, except when it rained. -And I like going about with the circus, too.” - -“Oh, you will be able to go about again,” said Tum Tum. “When warm -weather comes we shall travel once more.” - -But something happened which nearly stopped all the circus animals from -ever traveling about the country again. - -One night Dido was awakened in his cage by a queer smell. And there was -a funny feeling in his nose and throat as if he wanted to sneeze. - -Dido stood up in his cage and looked across the barn. He saw smoke, -and he knew what smoke was, for he had often seen Tom and George make -a fire in the woods to boil coffee. And Dido saw fire with the smoke. -Then he knew what the queer smell was that had made him want to sneeze. -It was the smoke in his nose. - -The fire grew brighter and the smoke thicker. Dido stood close to the -bars of his cage and called to Tum Tum, who was asleep standing up, as -elephants often do. - -“Tum Tum!” called Dido in animal talk, “the circus barn is on fire! The -barn is on fire! What shall we do?” - -Tum Tum awoke with a start. He looked at the fire, which was in one end -of the barn, farthest off from the animal cages. - -“Oh, my! A fire!” cried Tum Tum. “That is terrible! We must get out -somehow!” - -“That is easy for you to do,” cried Dido, “for you are not in a cage. -But what shall I do?” - -“We must call to the circus men to come and let you caged animals out,” -said Tum Tum. “I’ll call,” and he made a loud trumpet noise. - -“They had better hurry,” said Dido. “The fire is growing hotter. Once -my masters made a fire in the woods, and it spread in the dry leaves so -they had to get water and put it out. Oh, Tum Tum, can’t you let me out -of my cage?” - -“Yes,” said Tum Tum, “I will. I can open many animal cages with my -trunk.” Tum Tum was a trick elephant and could do many things. He soon -had opened the cage of the dancing bear, and Dido could jump out. By -this time the other animals were much excited by the fire. Some of them -broke out of their cages by themselves. Others Tum Tum let out, helped -by Dido. - -[Illustration: He soon had opened the cage of the dancing bear and Dido -jumped out.] - -“But we must get out of the burning circus barn,” Dido said. “To be out -of our cages will do us no good unless we get out of the barn, too.” - -Tum Tum, and the other elephants and other animals, ran around the -inside of the circus barn, looking for an open door. But there was -none. All the doors and windows were tightly fastened to keep out the -cold. - -By this time men could be heard outside shouting about the fire. Dido -ran up to one door. This led outside, as he knew, for he had come in -and out of it several times. - -“Tum Tum!” called the dancing bear, “if we could break open this door -we could get out and let the other animals out too. Let us try to break -down the door.” - -“All right!” cried Tum Tum. “I will bang it with my strong head. Look -out! Here I come!” - -Tum Tum backed up a little way. Then he ran at the door and struck it -with his head. At first it would not open. But when Tum Tum struck it -again and again, and when Dido hit on it with his powerful paws, the -door began to splinter and crack. - -“Good!” cried the other animals. “Dido and Tum Tum will now let us out -of the burning barn!” - -Dido and Tum Tum banged on the door. With his paws Dido pulled away -the splinters and pieces of wood that Tum Tum broke off with his head. -Soon there was room for all the animals to go out. - -“Come on!” cried Tum Tum. And he and Dido let all the other animals run -out first and then they went out. And it was high time, too, for the -barn was blazing very hot and fast now. - -Then men came up with hoses to squirt water on the fire, while other -men drove the animals to another barn where they could stay for a while. - -“All the animals saved!” cried the head circus man when the fire was -out. “That’s fine! I wonder how they got out of the barn.” - -“Oh, Dido and Tum Tum let them out,” said one of the trainers. “I saw -the elephant and bear break down the door.” - -Then the circus folk, as well as the animals, loved Dido and Tum Tum -more than ever. Soon the burned barn was built over new, and it was -better than before. Dido stayed in it all winter and when spring came -again he and Tum Tum started out with the circus show again. - -I wish I had space to tell you other adventures of Dido, the dancing -bear, but this book is quite filled, as you may see. And Dido did -finally get into a book, didn’t he? I hope he likes what I have -written about him, if he ever sees it. - -But if I can not tell you any more about Dido I can about Blackie, -the cat who hid in the bear’s cage. So the next book will be named -“Blackie, a Lost Cat: Her Many Adventures.” And I hope you will like -what I have to write about her. - -“Tum Tum,” said Dido one day as he was dancing on the platform on the -elephant’s back, “do you remember the fire?” - -“I should say I _did_,” answered Tum Tum. “I never want to see another.” - -“Nor do I,” spoke Dido, as he whirled about while his circus master -tooted a gay tune on the brass horn. - -Then Dido turned somersaults in the circus ring, jumped through the -lighted hoop and did many other tricks. - -And now let us all say: - -“Good-by, Dido!” - - -THE END - - - - -GOOD STORIES FOR CHILDREN - -(From four to nine years old) - -THE KNEETIME ANIMAL STORIES - -By RICHARD BARNUM - - -[Illustration] - -In all nursery literature animals have played a conspicuous part; and -the reason is obvious, for nothing entertains a child more than the -antics of an animal. These stories abound in amusing incidents such as -children adore, and the characters are so full of life, so appealing to -a child’s imagination, that none will be satisfied until they have met -all of their favorites――Squinty, Slicko, Mappo, and the rest. - - 1 Squinty, the Comical Pig. - 2 Slicko, the Jumping Squirrel. - 3 Mappo, the Merry Monkey. - 4 Tum Tum, the Jolly Elephant. - 5 Don, a Runaway Dog. - 6 Dido, the Dancing Bear. - 7 Blackie, a Lost Cat. - 8 Flop Ear, the Funny Rabbit. - 9 Tinkle, the Trick Pony. - 10 Lightfoot, the Leaping Goat. - 11 Chunky, the Happy Hippo. - 12 Sharp Eyes, the Silver Fox. - 13 Nero, the Circus Lion. - 14 Tamba, the Tame Tiger. - 15 Toto, the Rustling Beaver. - 16 Shaggo, the Mighty Buffalo. - 17 Winkie, the Wily Woodchuck. - -_Cloth, Large 12mo., Illustrated._ - - - BARSE & HOPKINS - Publishers - Newark, N. J. New York, N. 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