1. Two friends were travelling on the same road 5. together when suddenly they came face to face with a large bear. In great 8. fear, and without a thought about his companion, one man immediately 2. climbed into a tree and hide. The other traveller was not frightened 10. and threw himself on the ground and pretended 6. to be dead, for he had heard, that a bear will not touch 4. a dead body. The bear approached him, sniffing at his nose and ears, but the 11. man, with great courage, held his breath and kept still, and at length the bear, thinking 3. him dead, walked slowly away. when the animal was well out of sight the first 9. traveller came down from his tree and asked his companion what it 12. was that the bear had said to him. He explained "I observed from 7. my perch that he put his mouth very close to your ear :"Well", repliced the other, "It was no great secret. 13. wisely advised me not to keep comp