Such Ingratitude Was Hard To Bear
Alex Anderson, aged 52, just can’t bear the expression, “bite the hand that feeds him” any more. At Chicago Zoo one Saturday he offered a bear a piece of bread. The bear grabbed the bread and also the hand that held it out and began chewing both. Anderson’s shrill protests brought keepers rushing to the but not till the victim had lost three forgers and part of his palm.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 47, 28 January 1949, Page 8
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75Such Ingratitude Was Hard To Bear Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 47, 28 January 1949, Page 8
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