Little Bruno Bear

Chapter 11 Big Bruno telling about growing up with a brother ten minutes older.

Big Bruno and little Bruno walk again as big Bruno decided it’s time to tell another story. About growing up with an older brother by ten minutes but still a bossy older brother. My mother Flora was always trying to keep me and my brother from fighting I have never liked being bossed around and especially from him. We grew up close together always sleeping in the same den and always watching out for one another. We where traveling to our winter den so we could have fresh food and til it was time to hibernate. As we walked across a large mountain trying to keep up with mother. Me and my brother sled down a riven onto a ledge and mother couldn’t get to us. We had to stay there mother would go find us some food and throw it down to us. And then one day me and my brother decided to slide on down a little farther with mother watching us we moved slowly over to another embankment. Moving slowly mother realized what we were doing and she came to rest down below us. Watching our every move til Murphy sled close to her and she caught him. And then it was my turn and she caught me as I sled down the mountain. It didn’t matter that we had lost over three day. Mother was just glad we were save and we traveled lower across that mountain from then own even to this day I travel low on that mountain.

And as we moved along a longer path it was started to get colder as we moved toward our winter den we looked for a warm place to sleep for the night as we came to a cave that seemed deep with many sounds but me and Murphy crawled up next a mother and she protected us through the night. And then we found some berries and started along the path coming to and angry river that mother looked around and found a tree laying across the river as me and Murphy slowly moved across mother watch our every step and when we were at the end of the large tree mother jumped down landing in part of the river and grabbing the bank we watch in terror afraid our mother would get washed down river.But she made it and helped us down to safety. Once again we where traveling and making a pretty good day of traveling. Stopping only when we needed to mother would put us on her back if she needed to and let us ride trying to make it to our winter den in time to fatten up and start our hibernation. Making up time we worked as a team and got there and started eating til we had our winter coats ready for the winter nap. But mother told us a story about when she was a small cub with two siblings as they played some humans came up and took her brother to be sold to a zoo her mother tried to defend her cubs from the men but they had a gun and killed their mother and took her siblings as she found a family member that took her and raised her as her own cub. Little bear had remembered seeing the humans when he waited with his mother watching them til they left the tomato patch.

Big Bruno told Little bear he was not trying to scare him he just wanted him to think and be a smarter cub than big Bruno and his brother was. There is danger out there everywhere we must watch out and be careful for strangers and watch around us at all times. So little Bruno told big Bruno your mother had to be a brave bear and learned to be safe after what happened to her when she was little. Big Bruno said yes she learned to be brave and learned a lot about life at a young age because til she found other family after loosing her brothers and her mother. She was brave and a strong mother to learn from life and learned to be safe.

Let’s stop and find some food big Bruno, said there was a large stream coming up around the corner of the Bend. Running around in the stream little Bruno stopped and stayed still and til he saw a large fish an he pounced just like big Bruno had taught him to do and sure enough he caught that fish. Little Bruno pulled that fish to the bank and enjoyed his fish. As big Bruno already had a fish watched the little cub eating his fish he was proud of the little cub sitting in front of him.Little Bruno looked up at the older bear in front of him wondering why such a older bear would help him find his mother.

Going back to traveling they came to a forest walking through big Bruno said to walk slow and careful watching around all sides for anything out of the ordinary. Walking through the forest there was a gust of wind quick through the air little Bruno ducked feeling the discomfort. Big Bruno stood large and firm not showing fear as the wind would whip harder like it was telling them to go back from where they came. But as long as big Bruno was holding his ground the little cub was not going to back down either. Some strange sounds started to blow with the wind again as the wind blow the sounds intensified and because stronger as little Bruno was fighting the wind it stopped the sound stopped and everything was back to normal. Little Bruno bear asked what was going on back there and Big Bruno told him it was and old bear graveyard where his fathers and fathers before him would come to die of old age, Their spirits protect the forest and the bones of the old bears that spread wisdom to the younger bears through the wind and teachings of life. So if we make it through life we come here to die little Bruno asked? Yes the big bear said we teach others the way of our fathers and teach them to be strong and brave.

Getting through the forest the two of them moved to find something to eat as they traveled to get some rest. Find some fresh strawberries the two enjoyed the large succulent berries as they moved from one end of the berries to the other enjoying themselves. And then finding and old abandoned den that big Bruno checked out and then the two cuddled together and found rest for the night.