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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Gloria had talked of bear cubs.

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.

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

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.

"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.

Yes, he who had scorned the Dahcotah girls, as they smiled upon him, was now the slave of a bear-woman; but there was one comfortthere were no warriors to laugh at him.

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

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.

"Whereof every one bear twins.

As soon as the bear got out to that part where the limb of the tree was weaker,"Ha!" says he to us, "now you see me teachee the bear dance:" so he falls a jumping and shaking the bough, at which the bear began to totter, but stood still, and began to look behind him, to see how he should get back; then, indeed, we did laugh heartily.

The letters in the third period bear date in 1609, seven years later than those last quoted.

All the same, leaving the tree out of consideration, bear-chasing with hounds is a tremendously exciting and hazardous game.