The gipsies of Transylvania, according to a writer in
_Blackwood’s Magazine_, teach young bears to dance by
placing the animal on a sheet of heated iron, while the trainer
plays on his fiddle a strongly accentuated piece of dance-music.
The bear, lifting up its legs alternately to escape the heat,
involuntarily observes the time marked by the violin. Later
on the heated iron is supprest, when the animal has learned
its lesson, and whenever the gipsy begins to play on the
fiddle the young bear lifts its legs in regular time to the
music.--_Public Opinion._
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=Pain Relieved=--See PATIENCE.