WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.330 Two men were walking acros s a moor when they startled a bear. 00:00:04.330 --> 00:00:09.060 They turned and fled as quickly as they could but bears are very fast runners. 00:00:09.060 --> 00:00:10.760 It was gaining on them. 00:00:10.760 --> 00:00:12.160 Here was a little tree. 00:00:12.160 --> 00:00:14.160 One of the men elbowed the other out the way, 00:00:14.160 --> 00:00:15.030 scrambled up the trunk 00:00:15.030 --> 00:00:19.120 and sat on the only branch that was out of reach. 00:00:19.120 --> 00:00:22.520 The other man, he had no choice. 00:00:22.520 --> 00:00:25.250 He had to lie down under the tree. 00:00:25.250 --> 00:00:29.240 If he could just stay still, the bear wouldn’t eat him 00:00:29.240 --> 00:00:33.140 because bears don’t eat dead meat. 00:00:33.140 --> 00:00:37.010 The bear stopped beside him. 00:00:37.010 --> 00:00:41.160 It sniffed him, batted him, 00:00:41.160 --> 00:00:45.760 pressed its nose up to his ear 00:00:45.760 --> 00:00:49.130 then ambled away. 00:00:49.130 --> 00:00:53.490 When they were safe the man climbed down from the tree. 00:00:53.490 --> 00:00:56.210 They continued their journey. 00:00:56.210 --> 00:01:00.120 ‘As you lay there,’ said the man from the tree, 00:01:00.120 --> 00:01:04.390 ‘I swear the bear whispered in your ear.’ 00:01:04.390 --> 00:01:06.470 ‘Yes he did,’ said the other. 00:01:06.470 --> 00:01:08.860 ‘Well, what did he say?’ 00:01:08.860 --> 00:01:10.680 ‘He said, 00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:15.310 “Choose your friends more carefully in future.”’