Amador Ledger-Dispatch, Volume 1901, Number 20, 20 December 1901 — The Mistake of the Polar Bear. [ARTICLE]

The Mistake of the Polar Bear.

Nordenskjold fonnd that the white beans generally went through a long performance of stalking his sailors, clearly on the mistaken conclusion that they were seals. As the men were clothed partly in sealskin, it was a very natural mistake. But the Interest of the story lies In the generalization made by the bear. The bear said: J "There are two or three seals, one standing up on its flippers in a very unusual way. I will therefore stalk them unseen as long as I can and when they see me pretend to be doing something else."

So the men, with their guns and lances, who wanted to shoot the bear had the pleasure of seeing him carefully crawling behind rocks and. Ice hummocks, making long detours thla.way and that and every now and ■ then clambering up a rock and peeping cautiously over to see if the seals had gone. On the open snow the bear would saunter off hi another direction and then, falling . flat . push himself along on his belly, with his great front paws covering his black muzzle, the only thing not matching the snow about him. Just as the bear thought he had got his "seal" the latter fired and shot him, a victim of false analogy. -Spectator. _