The scene is laid in the high Sierras, where trout-filled streams cascade down fragrant cedar slopes.

The author has turned natural science into story form. With the enterprising bear cub, we meet pine squirrels and painted chipmunks, the pika of the snow-clad peaks and the rattler of the sun-baked low-lands, the weasel and the wapiti, and have at least a glimpse of the cougar and the coyote.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I Mother Brown Bear [1]
II The Cinnamon Cub[5]
III The Young Screech Owl[8]
IV With the Ranger’s Children[12]
V Fuzzy Runs Away[16]
VI The Coyotes[19]
VII The Spotted Fawn[22]
VIII Wild Playmates[27]
IX The Hunter[31]
XTiny Folk and Their Troubles[34]
XIChuck and Chipper[38]
XII Mother Chipmunk’s Adventure[43]
XIII The Home Under the Rock[46]
XIV The Cache[50]
XV The Pine Nuts[54]
XVI Fuzzy-Wuzz Plays Fate[58]
XVII Bucky, the Burro[62]
XVIII “As Stubborn as a Mule”[66]
XIX The Pinto Pony[70]
XX The Pack-Horse Trip[75]
XXIWhen the World Turned White[79]
XXIIThe Ring-Tailed Cat[83]
XXIIIThe Baby Canary[87]
XXIV “Jest an Ornery Pup”[92]
XXV A Regular Dog[97]
XXVI Chums[101]
XXVII Pretty Paws, the Pine Squirrel[105]
XXVIII The Rattlesnake Den[110]
XXIX Mother Brown Bear and the Bull[115]
XXX Pika of the Peaks[121]
XXXI Fuzzy and the Weasel[125]
XXXII Wapiti[129]
XXXIII Dapple Disappears[133]
XXXIVDapple’s Secret[136]
XXXV Old Friends[139]

FUZZY-WUZZ

CHAPTER I

MOTHER BROWN BEAR

THE stars, twinkling like diamonds on a black velvet sky, looked down that night on a tender sight. A huge brown bear lay in the mouth of her cave in the rocks above the falls, nuzzling her babies to sleep.

A crafty old coyote also watched, his yellow eyes gleaming murderously at the tiny balls of fur. Soon, he told himself, the mother would have to go in search of her own supper, leaving the cubs asleep in the den. He licked his chops at the thought.

The littlest cub looked so tender and helpless! His cinnamon-brown fur, that matched the red-brown soil and the red-brown trunks of the pines, was still as fuzzy as a kitten’s.