Animals: Bad Bear, Good Bear

Favorite advertising of U. S. filling-station owners is a zoo. Favorite animal in George Langley's filling-station zoo near Ellsworth, Me. was a big black bear which he had raised from cubhood eleven years ago, taught to roll over and sit up for peanuts. One morning last week when Langley went into the pen to give the bear breakfast it pounced on him, chased him 100 yd., knocked him down, mauled him to death. When Langley's hired man ran up with a shovel, the bear killed him, too.

In Burns Lake, B. C.'s hospital last week,...

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