So the ostrich stayed many days. There was not corn enough for him to
eat, but the bears found that he could eat apples, or oranges, or hay,
or grass; in fact, one day the little Cub Bear found the ostrich at the
scene of the train wreck, picking up all sorts of things to eat, and,
strange to say, eating broken window glass and pieces of iron and stone.
What a strange dinner that was!
When the little Cub Bear returned to the cave that night, he noticed
the striped tail of the raccoon, and at once asked the raccoon to tell
how he was caught and put into the circus. So the raccoon stopped
washing his face long enough to tell the true story of: