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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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. The tractthus characterized was about five or six acres in super-ficial extent; and surrounded by the same kind of cop-pice that covered most of the face of the country. Under the thin trees there was neither underwood, norlong grass; and they could see between their trunks inevery direction, to the edge of the jungle that grewaround. While walking quietly along, a singular noise reachedtheir ears, that caused them suddenly to halt in theirtracks. It caused them to turn also: for the noise ap-peared to come from behind them. It resembled thehurried breathing of a person badly afflicted with asthma;but so much louder, that if it had proceeded from humanlungs, they could only have been those of an asthmaticgiant I It was, in reality, a gigantic creature that produced thenoise: since it was neither more nor less than a grislybear. Not one alone, but a brace of these monstrousanimals — a male and female, no doubt — were seen atthat moment by the edge of the thicket, out of which the
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TREED BY OLD EPHRAIxM. 281 hunters liacl ju<t emerged. Both were standing on theirhind hmbs, and both uttering the strange snuffing noisethat had attracted attention to them. Other noises werenow mingled with these — sharp querulous grunts —and, by the gestures which the bears were making, itwas evident they not only saw the three hunters in theopen ground, but were reconnoitring them, perhaps withan intention to make an attack upon them! Our hunters were quite taken aback. They had ex-pected, at least, to have been allowed the initiative inany conflict that might occur; but they now saw that,instead of being the assailing party, they were hkely tobe the assailed! They had no time for deliberation; for the brace ofbears, apparently having satisfied themselves with theirthreatening demonstrations, dropped down on all-fours,and came galloping onward — almost as fast as horsescould have done ! The three hunters fired at once; and not withouteffect: for one of the bears fell to t

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