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Excerpt from The Life Story of a Black Bear
But. As I said, cubhood is not a matter of size only. As I look down at this glossy black coat of mine, it is hard to believe that it was ever a dirty light brown in colour, and all ridiculous wool and ?uff, as young cubs' coats are. But I must have been ?uffy, because I remember how my mother, after she had been licking me for any length of time, used to be obliged to stop and wipe the fur out of her mouth with the back of her paw, just as my wife did later on when she licked our cubs. Every time my mother had to wipe her mouth she used to try to box my ears, so that when she stopped licking me, I, knowing what was coming next, would tuck my head down as far as it would go between my legs, and keep it there till She began licking again.
Yes, when I stop to think, I know, from many things, that I must have been just an ordinary cub.
For instance, my very earliest recollection is of tumbling downhill.
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