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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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d revelry. In the museum our young hunters met their old ac-quaintances, from all parts of the world. They encoun-tered them standing in different attitudes — all mountedin the most approved fashion. The Syrian bear wasthe only one not among them: as they had themselvesbrought his skin — all the others having been sent homel)y Parcels Dehvery. In a few days, however, theursus syriacus was set upon his legs; and the collectionwas complete. The news of the Grand Bear-Hunt, with its curious THE LAST CHASE. 371 conditions, soon got abroad; and travelled all round thesocial circle of St. Petersburgh. Figuratively speaking,our young hunters were transformed into animals them-selves — they became lions, — and remained so forthat season; but even at this hour in the salons of thegreat Russian capital, you may often hear introduced,as a favorite topic of conversation — The Baron and his Bears. THE END. Cambridge : Stereotyped and Trinted by Welch, Bigelow, & Co. ^\ Z0O^.OM.00S(eS
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