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of it from the back of its neck. The bear tried to scratch them with its
hook - shaped claws.

We put it in one of the gunny-bags we had brought and when I got back
to Bangalore I duly presented it to my wife. She was delighted! She at
once put a coloured ribbon around its neck, and after discovering the
cub was a „boy‟ she christened it Bruno.

Christened it: named it

The group stuffed the bear in a gunny bag and took it to Bangalore
(present day Bengaluru). The narrator gifted the bear cub to his wife.
She was happy to have it, tied a coloured ribbon around its neck. As it
was a male cub, she named it ‘Bruno’.

Bruno soon took to
drinking milk from a
bottle. It was but a step
further and within a very
few days he started
eating and drinking
everything else. And
everything is the right
word, for he ate porridge
made from any
ingredients, vegetables,
fruit, nuts, meat (especially pork), curry and rice regardless of
condiments and chillies, bread, eggs, chocolates, sweets, pudding, ice-
cream, etc., etc., etc. As for drink: milk, tea, coffee, lime-juice, aerated
water, buttermilk, beer, alcoholic liquor and, in fact, anything liquid. It all
went down with relish.

Condiments: spices
Relish: great enjoyment

The bear drank milk from a bottle. After a few days, it started drinking
and eating many things - everything and anything. The bear enjoyed
eating and drinking.

The bear became very attached to our two Alsatian dogs and to all the
children of the tenants living in our bungalow. He was left quite free in
his younger days and spent his time in playing, running into the kitchen
and going to sleep in our beds.

It became friendly with the narrator’s Alsatian dogs also. Also, with the
tenant’s children who lived in the narrator’s bungalow. As the bear was