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He did the same thing in the next pool and the next. Buster Bear's fishing was spoiled for that day. Buster Bear hadn't enjoyed himself so much since he came to the Green Forest to live. His fun began when he surprised Little Joe Otter on the bank of a little pool in the Laughing Brook and Little Joe was so frightened that he dropped a fat trout he had just caught.
"What know I of Sir Thurstan? Young sir, I am a man of Cornwall, and my name it is Pharaoh Nanjulian. They know me in Marazion. I have been on a venture to the North Seas plague take it, there is naught but ice and snow there, with white bears twenty feet long " "List to him!" said someone in the crowd. "I will show thee the white bear's trick, an' thou doubtest me. But to proceed.
The bear's manner of hunting large game is usually by ambush. As most of his victims are more fleet of foot than he, he does not undertake to run them down in the open, but if he can get them at disadvantage in thick cover, or at the lick, this is his opportunity.
Then he dragged into a corner and covered up the carcass of the bear and the body of the fakir, having first stripped the clothes off the latter, scattered a little straw over the bear's skin, and then, his task being finished, he crept behind the logs again, lay down, and went off to sleep by the side of Ned. It was getting dark when he awoke. Ned was awake, and was sitting up by his side.
The long hair was left on, as a protection against the rocks of the river, and the seams were filled and plastered with bear's grease. "It's a mighty bad-smellin' thing," remarked Sweeny. "An who's goin' to back it over the portages?" "Robinson Crusoe!" exclaimed Glover. "I never thought of that. Wal, let's see.
During these days, while Hetty was unflinchingly going forward with all her preparations for her new home, the home she had left was a scene of terrible dismay and suffering. It was long after dark when little Raby, breathless and sobbing, had burst open the sitting-room door, crying out: "Auntie's drowned in the lake. I know she is; or else a bear's eaten her up.
I felt pretty faint by the time it was done, and Leaping Horse said, 'Want food; my white brother will lie quiet, Leaping Horse will soon get him some. "He set to work and soon had a fire going, and then went up to the rocks and came down again with the bear's hams and about half his hide.
Bear's Meat can't touch YOU, widout he touch ME. Bourdon your husband; you his squaw. Husband and squaw go togedder, on same path. Dat right. But, Blossom, listen. Dere is Great Spirit. Injin believe dat as well as pale-face. See dat is so. Dere is Great WICKED Spirit, too. Feel dat, too; can't help it. For twenty winter dat Great Wicked Spirit stay close to my side.
"His spirit is now with our fathers." "Why not have a feast?" said Kesshoo. "There hasn't been any fresh meat in the village since the bear was killed, and I don't believe the rest have had anything to eat but dried fish. We have plenty of bear's meat still." Koolee hopped down off the bench and put some more moss into the lamp.
The Italian, who had been about to withdraw, and was tugging on the bear's chain, began to smile again. He foresaw leniency when the master of the house could laugh like this. Janice gave way to merriment, too. It was funny. Much as she was sorry for Miss Peckham's fright, the situation altogether was one to amuse her. Pietro waddled into the kitchen and sat up like a dog to beg.
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