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They will be none the worse, but rather the better, when the ordeal is over, as it is with those who safely get through with a lingering attack of the measles or scarlet fever. One day Mr Ross sent old Mustagan out into the woods to select a place where the next year's supply of wood could be obtained.
It was one of the favourite dishes of the supper that evening. The other luxuries, Mr Ross added, were the bear's paws and the moose's nose. As they paddled on Mustagan suddenly shaded his eyes for a moment, then quickly said: "Wap-i-sew! wap-i-sew!" Word was quickly shouted to the other boats of their coming, and to try and shoot some of them if possible.
So the flint and steel were struck and a light made by one of them, while the axemen now vigorously broke through the thin glassy wall. Soon an opening sufficiently large was made, and the old Indian and Sam fearlessly stepped in, with guns and torches. As anticipated by Mustagan, the bears, frightened by the brilliant torches, at once crowded away from the dazzling flames.
It would now have been easy to have shot some of them, but Mustagan was afraid that as so much of the ice had fallen already from the roof of the den a few more such reports might find them all buried under the great mass above them. So he decided to drive the bears out into the open air, where the fight could be renewed. At the great opening in the crystal wall the bears made a determined stand.
Then Mustagan explained that there was a deep ravine full of the snow, and at the bottom of it some bears had made their winter's nest in the fall. Whether they had much of a den or not he did not know. They would find that out when they dug them out. Anyway, here they were under many feet of snow.
We shall hear much about him as these pages advance, and will be delighted to have him with us in many an exciting hour. Three canoes were employed on this excursion. Mr Ross had Mustagan, another Indian, and one of the boys with him; while the other two canoes, which were not quite so large as Mr Ross's, had in each two Indians to paddle them, and one of the boys.
To them in quiet tones, so as not to be heard by the sorrowing ones at the camp fire, Mustagan told what he had seen just as the darkness had set in. When they heard his story they were as much excited as was he.
"No use going then," said Memotas, "if the days are not bright and cold. No see any steam if no sunshine." This was a great perplexity to the boys, and they appealed to Mr Ross to help them out. But he wished them to have the real surprise that Mustagan had in store for them, and so he told them to wait until they could see it for themselves, when on the ground.
All poor Sam could say was, "The bear! the bear!" as he lay panting on the ground. Mustagan, quick to read signs, was the first to see what had happened, and so, hastily catching up his gun, and crowding down the barrel a bullet on the top of the buckshot, with which it was already loaded, he slipped out from the circle of light around the camp fire, in the direction from which Sam had come.
"I wish I had brought a shotgun instead of this rifle," said Sam. "I think we might have had more than one of those partridges." "Suppose we try and get them all without any gun," said Mustagan, in a tone that seemed to indicate perfect confidence in the experiment.
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