I don't know if she handed it to him, put it on the ground, or what, but my great grandmother looked out the window and saw little Ruth at the swing set with a wild black bear a few minutes after she had come inside and asked for "a sandwich for me and a sandwich for the bear." She thought Ruth was hungry and wanted two sandwiches so she made up the bear, but then she saw them out there together. Ruth didn't know enough to be scared of it. She was very lucky!