Speaking of nature fakirs, I would like to say that all remarkable stories told of animals are not fakes. I know of an old mother bear who went to a farmhouse, stole a pan of rice pudding, carried it to her hungry cubs in the woods, then returned to the farmhouse and got five saucers and a like number of spoons—one each for her four cubs and herself.
    While she was gone for the saucers and spoons the hungry cubs devoured the pudding; which so infuriated the mother bear that she grabbed the empty pudding dish and nearly beat the lives out of the poor cubs.
    If President Roosevelt doesn’t want to believe this, he needn’t.—J. S. H., in Boston Globe.

From— Scott County Kicker. (Benton, Mo.), 17 Aug. 1907. & Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.