The next instant I was in a bear's grip, the very breath crushed out of me, yet, by some chance, my one arm remained free, and I drove the sharp steel into him twice before he forced the weapon from my fingers.

He was now about 125 yards away, and offered an excellent shot as he paused and raised his head to scent the breeze; but Nikolai whispered, "No," and we worked nearer, crawling forward when the bear's head was down, and lying flat and close when his head was up.

As quickly as he could Hawk-eye explained how he had come across a wizard preparing for a séance, how he had knocked him on the head and taken the bear's skin in which the charlatan had proposed to make his magic.

He hath a cat's eye and a bear's paw, a siren's tongue and a serpent's sting.

Tis as well to ask for a bear's reasons as an Injin's." Tom only staid at home long enough to mend the broken window, and plant a small spot of Indian corn, and then again set out, telling Susan not to expect him home in less than a month.

They probably have an idea of making up for the low price at which their lands have been valued, by maintaining a constant system of petty theftsor perhaps they consider kitchen utensils as curiosities, just as the whites do their mocassins and necklaces of bear's claws.

So he transformed himself into a little snake, and in this way got inside of the bear's skull and enjoyed his feast.

The venison and bear's meat which he had brought were quickly purchased at a price that well pleased him.

As he painted in vivid periods the scene where Goldilocks was discovered by all three bears asleep in the little bear's bed, the First Lieutenant broke down completely and had to be patted and soothed into a more tranquil frame of mind before the story could proceed.

The boy was completely charmed by the marvellous display and almost forgot that he was imprisoned between a bear's two paws.

The boy knew that he ought to answer promptly that he would not, but he also knew that then the bear's paws would squeeze him to death; therefore he replied: "I shall have to think it over.

Now, as any one who was ever struck there knows, a man's shin is as tender as a bear's nose; and the surprised tramp was soon dancing about in the air, hugging his bruised leg and yowling like a wildcat.

The entire facial mask had been torn clean from the skull by a fearful sweep of the bear's paw, and hung from his collar-bone by a strip of skin.

" "I can tell that the traces were made by the feet of a white man," said Robert, "but how do you know they are Dave's?" "I have noticed that the Great Bear's feet are more slender than the average.

If the shock of the heavy bullet had not slackened the bear's pace he would not even have had time to seize the axe.

I paid the fust five bob to George Tebb the next time the ship was up, and arter biting 'em over and over agin and then ringing 'em on the deck 'e took the other chaps round to the Bear's Head.

that either, but the third week, arter just calling in at the Bear's Head, I strolled on casual-like and got as far as the bottom of Tower Hill afore I remembered myself.

When I opened the gate and see the landlord of the Bear's Head standing there I turned quite dizzy, and there was a noise in my ears like the roaring of the sea.

"I cured them; they are asleep now"; and he went up and shoved the arrow into the other bear's heart.

One day some hunters came up the mountain to look for game, and one of them pulled aside the vines which grew in front of the old bear's home.

Journey resumedThe hunters meet with bears and have a great fight, in which the dogs are sufferersA bear's dinnerMode in which Arctic rocks travelThe ice-belt.

In this extremity Meetuck cut a large hole in the back of the hut, intending to creep out and procure one of the muskets; but the instant the opening was made the bear's head filled it up.

The tale of Cuffy Bear's holidays.

Each backwoodsman was not only a small farmer but also a hunter; for his wife and children depended for their meat upon the venison and bear's flesh procured by his rifle.

"I'd like to get that bear's foot fixed comfortable before it grows any darker.