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Title: Bruin : the grand bear hunt
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Reid, Mayne, 1818-1883 Zwecker, Johann Baptist, 1814-1876 Dalziel Brothers
Subjects: Bears Voyages around the world Hunting Adventure and adventurers Natural history Brothers Animal welfare
Publisher: Boston, (Mass.) : Ticknor and Fields
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ark object already mentioned ; and as the bearcould be seen nowhere else in the tree, this object ac-counted for his being invisible. You will be wondering m hat it was ; and so wonderedour yoang hunters when they first raised their eyes to it.It iookecl more like a stuck of faggots than augnt else; 146 BRUIN. and, indeed, very good faggots would it liave made: sinceit consisted of a large mass of dry sticks and branches,resting in an elevated fork of the tree, and matted to-gether into a sohd mass. There were enough to havemade a load for an ordinary cart, and so densely pa^kedtogether, that only around the edges could the sky beseen through them ; towards the centre, and for a diame-ter as large as a millstone, the mass appeared quite solidand black, not a ray of light passing through the inter-woven sticks. The nest of a lammergeyer! exclaimed the izzard-hunter, the moment his eye glanced up to it. Just so !— my dogs are right: the bear has taken shelter in thenest of the birds !
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THE LAMMERGEYERS. 147 CHAPTER XXVI. THE LAMMERGEYERS. This was evident to all. Bruin had climbed the tree,and was now snugly ensconced in the great nest of thevulture-eagles, though not a hair of his shaggy hide couldbe visible from below. The hunters had no doubt about liis being there. Thechasseur was too confident in the instinct of his well-trained dogs to doubt them for a moment, and his com-panions had no reason to question a fact so very proba-ble. Had there been any doubt, it would soon have beenset aside, by an incident that occurred the moment aftertheir arrival under the tree. As they stood looking up-ward, two great birds were seen upon the wing, rapidlyswooping downward from on high. They w^ere lammer-geyers, and evidently the owners of the invaded nest.That the intruder was not welcome there, became ap-parent in the next moment; for both the birds w^ere seeitshooting in quick curves around the top branches of thetree, flapping their wings over the nest, and screamingwith

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