Desperately the Boy stirred the almost extinct embers with his foot, and a faint glow fell on the terror-frozen faces of the natives, fell on the bear-skin flap.

We found the company belonging to the other boat busily employed in cooking a supper of venison and bear-meat, they having in the course of the day killed two deer and a bear that they found swimming the river.

One day, when I had nothing else to do, I saddled up an extra pony express horse, and arming myself with a good rifle and pair of revolvers, struck out for the foot hills of Laramie Peak for a bear-hunt.

Kalitan remained with him, although his eyes looked wistful, for he had heard the chief talk about bear tracks having been seen the day before.

Bears, bear-hunting, and bear stories held supreme sway.

I was compelled to creep for miles on all fours, and in following the bear-trails often found tufts of hair on the bushes where they had forced themselves through.

He was about forty years of age, and had been a noted sea otter and bear hunter.

"I have been dining sumptuously on bear steaks," she told him lightly.

He had no desire to be bear leader for such a doubtful specimen as Barney.

The English are quarrelsome, Master Slender testifies, at the game of bear-baiting.

I say nominally, as the law relating to absolute silence was never actually enforced; and as long as the members amused themselves in a reasonably quiet manner, and without turning the place into a bear-garden, they were allowed to converse over their games of chess or draughts, and exchange their opinions on the news of the day.

After this Jesse led them to where he had a bear trap located, and here they were compelled to exercise considerable caution, because Bruin is a suspicious beast, and easily frightened away.

Gloria had talked of bear cubs.

One good day among many bad ones showed no more bear signs, so we soaped the seams of the otter boat, which leaked badly, and set sail for Three Saints Bay, named after Shelikoff's ship.

The bear-man wondered within himself at their unwillingness to have him as a passenger.

Of great importance are a decrease in the number of functional digits; a gradual elevation of the heel, so that their modern descendants walk on the tips of their toes, instead of on the whole sole; a constant tendency to the development of deeply grooved and interlocked joints in place of shallow bearing surfaces; and to a complex pattern of the molar crowns instead of the simple type mentioned.

"That story," said Spalding, "reminds me of a bear story.

The time had been when the theatre was cousin to the bear-pit.

Then, again, the Press itself in the South bears witness to what every one must admit to be an inhuman practice.

I knew that he would break at the sight of game, and realized for the hundredth time my mistake in bringing a bear dog into the moose range.

No, she was a footlights favourite; wore her mane in plaits and a star-spangled bearing-rein and surcingle to improve her fig-u-are; did pretty parlour tricks to the strains of the banjo and psaltery.

If the specimen lies on a flat surface and the load is applied to only a portion of the upper area, the bearing plate indents the wood, crushing the upper fibres without affecting the lower part.

Harriet S. Adams & Edna C. Squier (A); 21Jan65; R354103. DIXON, JOSEPH S. Fur bearing mammals of California.

It's a family bear-fight, I conclude; but though I hate the kind of thing, Dick is sure to take care of me.

"Whereof every one bear twins.