dog-and-bear

Updated: May 9, 2025

Now and then, hugging him in this embrace, he would roll over and over, both of them snarling and growling as though in deadly combat. This play, though he was literally the under dog, delighted Miki until one day they rolled over the edge of a deep ravine and crashed in a dog-and-bear avalanche to the bottom. After that, for a long time, Neewa did not roll with his victim.

James Oliver Curwood - Nomads of the North : A Story of Romance and Adventure under the Open Stars