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vigour than ever on his devoted head, and again Bruin 
disappeared to prepare for round number three. And 
so it went on for some time, till at last the man and 
the axe got the day, and Bruin lay dead at his feet. 
The above story was told me in Norwegian, and loses 
not a little by being translated. 
In the month of February, this year, 1863, an old 
she-bear and two cubs were shot in Ostre Slidre, in 
Valders, in the following way :—Three men one day 
found a “hie,” and one stuck a pole down it to see 
if Bruin were at home. He had not done so long ere 
he “‘ got a bite,” and called to his comrades to aim in 
the direction of the pole. They accordingly put the 
muzzles of their rifles as far in as they could in the 
| required direction and fired. Supposing the bear must 
have got his “quietus,” he now commenced crawling 
into the “hie” to see the result, but had not got 
far before the bear bolted right over him and escaped. 
She was killed, however, the following day, and it was — 
found that her jaw had been already broken. ‘The two 
cubs were lying quite dead at the bottom of the “hie.” — 
Lucky was it for them that the old bear made off, 
as their guns being unloaded they would probably have 
come off worst had she attacked them. 
In the middle of March, this year, a man discovered 
a bear “hie” in a hay barn. In company with two 
others he had gone to fetch a load of hay home, when 
