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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 to that side ; and, just as they raised their tri-umphant cry, they saw the peccaries dancing amongthe branches that lay extended along the sand-bar.Many of these were hidden by the flakes of hanginggrass already mentioned ; but another fearful creaturechanced to have been hidden there also ; who now dis-played himself in all his shining majesty — not onlyto the eyes of the besieged, but likewise to those ofthe besiegers. The creature was a quadruped — one offearful mien, and dimensions far exceeding that of theLilliputian peccaries. It was their natural enemy —the jaguar! Whether it was the shout that had startled him, orthe peccaries had trodden him out of his lair, or both,certain it was that he now sprang suddenly out, andwith one bound launched himself upon the log Fora moment he stood cowering on its top, turning hiseyes first upon the branches where the boys had takenrefuge, and then in the opposite direction, towards thewoods. He seamed irresolute as to which course he
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SCTLLA AND CHARYBDIS. 185 woiikl take; and this irresolution, so long as it lasted,J rod need an unpleasant effect uj^on our young hunters.Sliould the jaguar also attack them, their destructionmiglit be accounted as certain ; for the great cat would(Iiher strike tliem down from their unstable perch, orc:i\v tlicni to death if they continued to cling to it. Of(•(>u:>e, to fall down among the peccaries would be(Icatli, equally certain and terrible. l>y good fortune, however, the jaguar at the momentof diowir.g himself was eagerly assailed by the wild))igs ; and it was to escape from their assault, that heh.ad sprung upward to the log. Thither the pec-carieshud pursued him, and were now endeavoring to reachthe top of the dead-wood, just as they had done whileafter the hunters. The jaguar no longer stood silent andirresolute; but, uttering loud screams, he commenceddefendins; himself against the assailinor host, strikingthem with his broad ungulated paws, and flinging oneafter

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