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Title: The three bears of Porcupine Ridge, wild dwellers of forest, marsh and lake
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Thompson, Jeanette May, Mrs., 1865- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: Boston, Chicago, W. A. Wilde company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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feath-ery ear and straight out of the other; secretly,hemade up his mind then and there, that he wouldhave an astonishing adventure. He would stayout and keep awake all day long, instead ofcoming back home with the others and going tosleep. So one night Solomon flew off, as usual, alone,upon a hunting trip; a new, strange wildnesspossessed him, and he longed for adventures.He would fly off a long distance to new huntinggrounds. High and low he soared, searchingfor prey, skimming low over strange, unexploredpools far from home; but somehow that nightthe moon shone so brightly that the frogs alwayssaw him first, and down they would plunge, outof sight beneath the thick jungles of thewater weeds, throwing back to him a defiant kerchung. Finally Solomon realized to hisdismay that night was almost gone, for themoon had disappeared behind a mountain, andstill he had caught nothing to eat but just a fewstray gnats. So he instantly made up his mindthat it would be foolish to go back home hun-
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Solomon Failed to See the Trap FOREST, MARSH AND LAKE 241 gry, and perhaps when- the big yellow sun ballactually came from behind the mountain, whereit slept all night, then he would be able to findsomething quite different to eat, some newdelicacy, for, with more light, he would cer-tainly be able to see very much farther, insteadof becoming blind like a stupid bat. He de-termined to stay awake and test it all for him-self. Accordingly, back and forth he gaily flewover the gradually lightening marshes. Andjust as he was beginning to get fiercely hungry,he suddenly spied a choice morsel of fresh meatlying right in plain sight near the brook. Head-long, down swept Solomon, and grabbed thecoveted bait greedily, so eagerly that he failedto see the trap beneath it, until it had nippedhis leg and held him firmly, a prisoner. Solomon soon found out that the more heflopped and struggled about to get free, the harderdid the cruel teeth of the trap bite into his leg ;so, finally, he had to lie

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