The Bear Who Saved the World

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Johnny Black pulled Volume 5 of the Britannica off the library shelf and opened it to the article on "Chemistry." Adjusting the elastic that held his spectacles in place, he worried his way through a few paragraphs before he decided, sadly, that he could go no farther until his man, Professor Mettin, explained things to him. And he wanted so much to learn all about chemistry and the chemicals that had made it possible for him to read at all!

Johnny Black was not human, and he knew it. He was, instead, a fine specimen of the American black bear, Euarctos americanus, upon whose brain Professor Mettin, chief of staff at the North American Biological Research Station, had performed a remarkable experiment. Mettin had injected a chemical compound that lowered the resistance of the synapses between the cells of his small bear's brain so that the complicated electrical process called thought became as easy for Johnny as for a man.

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