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 in a tree means a Mother Grizzly not far away, and they had better let
him alone. [Illustration] After they had sneaked off Wahb came down and
returned to the Piney. There was better feeding on the Graybull, but
every one seemed against him there now that his loving guardian was
gone, while on the Piney he had peace at least sometimes, and there were
plenty of trees that he could climb when an enemy came. His broken foot
was a long time in healing; indeed, it never got quite well. The wound
healed and the soreness wore off, but it left a stiffness that gave him
a slight limp, and the sole-balls grew together quite unlike those of
the other foot. It particularly annoyed him when he had to climb a tree
or run fast from his enemies; and of them he found no end, though never
once did a friend cross his path. When he lost his Mother he lost his
best and only friend. She would have taught him much that he had to
learn by bitter experience, and would have saved him from most of the
ills that befell him in his cubhood--ills so many and so dire that but
for his native sturdiness he never could have passed through alive.
[Illustration] The pinons bore plentifully that year