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Were he and she subjective forms pure and simple, were they not striving, so to speak, to become caseless absolutives, like man or any other noun, we should not have been able to coin such compounds as he-goat and she-goat, words that are psychologically analogous to bull-moose and mother-bear.
He would not drive the mother-bear and her cubs away, and he would not fight with her, no matter how shrewish or unpleasant she was. Even if he found them eating at one of his kills, he would do nothing more than give the cubs a sound cuffing.
It's awful easy to get lost. I bet you don't know where that mother-bear lives." "You shut up!" snarled H. J. Owens. The Kid had hit uncomfortably close to the truth. "You shut up your own self, you darned pilgrim." the Kid flung back instantly. That was the way he learned to say rude things; they were said to him and he remembered and gave them back in full measure.
It was a most curious circumstance, but no sooner had he said this than he felt stealing over his knees something warm and soft; in fact, a most beautiful bearskin, which folded itself round him quite naturally, and cuddled him up as closely as if he had been the cub of the kind old mother-bear that once owned it.
"But," said Brunie, in conclusion, "all bears are very much alike, and have much the same habits; all can climb, dig and swim, and all are very, very fond of honey." And the little bears listened to it all, and thought what a nice little mother-bear Brunie was, and what an extremely important family they belonged to.
Once having got over their long winter sleep, bears begin to be sociable again, and take an interest in their fellow-creatures. The mother-bears were particularly busy, for they had to teach and educate their little ones, and there is no quainter sight on the earth than a heavy, lumbering, brown mother-bear followed by her funny little woolly cubs.
For a few moments they both puffed silently on their pipes. "Almost inconceivable," said Langdon then. "And yet it's true. And it isn't a freak of nature, Bruce it's simply a result of Nature's far-sightedness. If the cubs were as large comparatively as a house-cat's kittens the mother-bear could not sustain them during those weeks when she eats and drinks nothing herself.
This was no wounded leopard charging me; no mother-bear defending with her giant might a captured cub. It was only a mother-bird, the size of a wild duck, with swift wings at her command, hiding under those wings her own and another's young, and her own boundless fear! For the second time in my life I had taken captive with my bare hands a free wild bird. No, I had not taken her captive.
I haven't any neighbors." "But what do you want it for?" "It is so cunning. It just rolled over in the trail at my feet, and I grabbed it and ran." "But what if the mother-bear should come after it?" asked Gretchen. "I would shoot her." "That would be a strange way to treat your new neighbors," said Mr. Woods. Mr.
In the face of the peril that was almost upon them a mother-bear would have driven Muskwa into the safety of a crevice in the rock wall. Thor did not do this. He fronted the danger that was coming, and reared himself up on his hind quarters.
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