The lady found the bear cub in the forest near of her house. She fed him with bottle milk. Her cook helped her in this task.
The bear was harmless. He watch amicably at the cattle grazing in the field. The children used to ride at his back safely. The 3 dogs loved to play all sorts of games with him, pull his ears and his stump of a tail and tease him.
The bear ate same food as the dogs. He was given bread, porridge potatoes, cabbages turnip. He was vegetarian. He liked the apple most. He was not allowed to pluckked apples from the tree and attack the beehive.
The bear was usually tied up with a chain at night and on sunday when the lady visited her sister house for lunch.
One Sunday while the lady was on way to went to her sisters house. She heard the cracking of Branches behind her. She saw the bear following her. She punish him by hitting him on his nose with her umbrella. The bear turned round & went back.
The bear looked sad when lady came back home in evening. The poor creature had been in chain all day. He was waiting for her mistress. Mistress scolded her for following her. Cook got angry because bear had been sitting quietly all day.