R. Bear. Why, I like you immensely, now I see you near.
B. Lion. And I'm enormously taken with you, at close quarters.
R. Bear. You have little of the Lion but its magnanimous courage.
B. Lion. And you have nothing of the Bear but its skin.
R. Bear. The kind things you have been saying about me lately have quite touched me.
B. Lion. Don't mention it. You deserved 'em all. Delighted to render any little civilities to a near neighbour, especially in time of trouble.
R. Bear (much moved). A thousand thanks! Leo! Let me embrace you. No longer afraid of my hug, are you?
B. Lion. Not a bit of it! Oh! this is something like a "Russian Advance!!!"
R. Bear. And this is indeed a right "British Greeting!!!"
B. Lion (aside). Wonder what the Gallic Chanticleer thinks of this!