Once a little cub bear was caught in a big log trap, and taken on a
train to a circus. He lived in the circus a long, long while, and every
day a great many people came to see the bear, and the lions, and the
tigers, and the leopards, and the elephants, and the camels, and the
other animals.
Every night the animals would all be put in the wagons made for them,
then the wagons would be rolled on the flat-cars of a railroad train.
The train would go all night to another town, where a great many people
would come to see the animals and the men and women in the circus. The
Cub Bear saw a great many wonderful and strange things while he was in
the circus and while traveling on the trains. Once he crossed the ocean
in a great ship, and came back again in another ship. This story tells: