-35- Other words, the bear would dance eight cent!s worth. After the performance the man and the bear did a waltz, which the man said would be "on the house.

He then announced that, for five cents, the bear would climb a nearby telephone line pole. I ran home and managed to shake two pennies out of my piggy bank. Clarence Frizzell also dashed home and came back with two . pennies. Dan MacPhee shook out his pockets and discovered a penny that he'd missed in the Srevious search. |

The bear climbed the pole, and the man now told us that, for five cents more, we could watch him come down. Naive we undoubtedly were, but it was — quite obvious, even to us, that the bear couldn't stay up there indefinite- ly, so we just stood wround and waited. The man dropped the price to four cents; to three; to two, but at this point the bear came down without awaiting orders.

For a long moment, the man stood there looking us over and shaking his. head very Slowly. Then, without more ado, he and the bear resumed their journey westward -- hoping, no doubt, to find a somewhat more affluent audience. |

Other wanderers, most of them apparently homeless, roamed the country highways with no obvlous purpose other than an urge to be on the move.

Two of these come to mind: Old Wary, and- Peter Iney. Both must have been in their early seventies; both were markedly eccentric; both were given to making cryptic 9bservations that were popularly assumed to be of some Significance, but which no one was ever actually able to interpret. Peter was a snall, stooped man with a stubby, grizzled beard; - and bore a ‘Striking resemblance to General U.S.Grant of American Civil War mention. He traveled in some degree of style, seated on the front panel of a blue dump cart drawn by a white horse of indeterminate age that he called Neb -- short for Nebuchadnezzar. His range was middle and western Queen's County

where he followed a definite route with regular stops for sleeping quarters