CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I.HOW I TUMBLED DOWNHILL [1]
II.CUBHOOD DAYS [9]
III.THE COMING OF MAN [25]
IV.THE FOREST FIRE [39]
V.I LOSE A SISTER [57]
VI.LIFE IN CAMP [71]
VII.THE PARTING OF THE WAYS [93]
VIII.ALONE IN THE WORLD [105]
IX.I FIND A COMPANION [120]
X.A VISIT TO THE OLD HOME [134]
XI.THE TROUBLES OF A FATHER [147]
XII.WIPING OUT OLD SCORES [163]
XIII.THE TRAP [176]
XIV.IN THE HANDS OF MAN [194]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

‘HOW I TUMBLED DOWNHILL’[Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
‘THE FATHER BEAR ASKED MY FATHER IF WE WERE NOT GOING TOO’[49]
‘SLOWLY, YARD BY YARD, SHE WAS BEING DRAGGED AWAY FROM US’[64]
‘AS I APPEARED THE YOUNG ONES RAN AND SNUGGLED UP TO HER’[113]
‘SHE SAW ME, AND SAT UP AND LOOKED AT ME AMICABLY’[128]
‘FROM THE MOMENT THAT I THREW MYSELF ON HIM HE NEVER HAD TIME TO BREATHE’[177]
‘IT WAS EVIDENTLY A TRAP’[192]
‘BY STANDING ON HER BACK I WAS ABLE TO SEE OVER’[On cover]