Come, Bud--come on." But Bud would not approach the group until called by Dale.

Then he scrambled to them with every manifestation of delight.

Bo almost forgot her own needs in feeding him and getting acquainted with him.

Tom plainly showed his jealousy of Bud, and Bud likewise showed his fear of the great cat.
Helen could not believe the evidence of her eyes--that she was in the woods calmly and hungrily partaking of sweet, wild-flavored meat--that a full-grown mountain lion lay on one side of her and a baby brown bear sat on the other--that a strange hunter, a man of the forest, there in his lonely and isolated fastness, appealed to the romance in her and interested her as no one else she had ever met.
When the wonderful meal was at last finished Bo enticed the bear cub around to the camp of the girls, and there soon became great comrades with him.

Helen, watching Bo play, was inclined to envy her.