THE BEAR AND HER CUBS.
"Are there any people besides Esquimaux in the snow-country?" asked Harry, one day.
"Not many," said I. "There is a small Danish settlement in Greenland; but, with that exception, the Esquimaux and the bears have the country pretty much to themselves."
"Tell me about the bears," said Harry. "I saw a bear last summer at the White mountains. He was chained to a tree."
"But the bear that roams about over the snow and ice of the Arctic regions, is much larger and more savage than the common black bear that you saw. It is of a dingy white color. When full grown, it sometimes measures nine feet in length."
"Didn't I see one in Barnum's menagerie?"
"I think not, Harry; for the polar bear suffers so much from heat, even in our coldest winters, that it will not live long in this climate.