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"That accounts for the supply of tobacco and sticking-plaster we found in the bear's stomach," remarked Fred, laughing. "True, boy; yet it surprises me that they succeeded in breaking into my cache, for it was made of heavy masses of stone, many of which required two and three men to lift them, even with the aid of handspikes."
Bear's grease had turned his ordinary curling brown hair into a damp, shining mass that dripped in tiny rills, from time to time, down on his coat collar, but Hi was happy. Beau Brummel, at the height of his sartorial fame, never achieved a more self-satisfying toilet. The Squire adjusted his spectacles. "What are you dressing up like that on a week day for, Hi?
At that instant one of the stout men in front said, with a bear's snarl, "Well that's the worst ever; I've seen some jobs in my time, but this puts it over anything yet." "Didn't you back the little mare?" a thin voice squealed. It was the 'Pout.
Afar in the Northland, where the winter days are so short and the nights so long, and where they harness the reindeer to sledges, and where the children look like bear's cubs in their funny, furry clothes, there, long ago, wandered a good Saint on the snowy roads. He came one day to the door of a cottage, and looking in saw a little old woman making cakes, and baking them on the hearth.
With some degree of apprehension they climbed in at the hole which they had cut, when I lifted up my bear's skin, and made my appearance, dressed in the black skin worn by the inhabitants of Whale's Island.
On the other hand, the bear's temper appeared to be rising, for his growls were growing more menacing with the seconds. "Hindenburg! Sick 'im!" gasped Hippy. He heard the pup, weak from loss of blood, give a feeble yelp, then a snarl, and in the next second Hindenburg had fastened his teeth in Henry's neck. A heavy paw swept Hindenburg away and left him quivering and moaning.
The trap had been unwittingly set by hands that made unexpected moves on the European chessboard, and the Bear's paw had this time been skilful enough to spring it at the proper moment.
In the meantime the monkeys climbed to the bear's head and began a little dance of their own. "Now for a little sport," whispered Tom, and started for the hotel. "Be careful of yourself!" warned Dick; "That bear looks as if he wasn't to be trifled with." But Tom did not heed him, his whole mind being bent on having a laugh at the expense of the Italian and his animals.
Filling my pockets with crackers, and slinging a slice of cooked bear's meat over my shoulder, I started off, having been careful first to pile up several loose blocks of ice in the form of a pillar, so that I might be able to find the place again. I then struck as it afterwards turned out most fortunately for that side of the berg where the surface shelved off gradually to the water.
With a howl, in which consternation mingled with his glee, the boy darted away over the ice like a reindeer to convey the glad news to his friends, and to fetch a sledge for the bear's carcass.
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