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must be careful. Finding, however, that 

 they were unhurt, she seemed to think only 

 of bringing them to a place of safety." 



Some authorities have it that only the 

 she bear hibernates and that the male 

 continues in the active exercise of all his 

 faculties. Ross weighed a polar bear 

 which tipped the scales at 1,131 pounds; 

 Lyon saw one which weighed 1,600 pounds; 

 Dr. Neale tells of one measuring eleven feet 

 exclusive of the tail. Senator Wm. P. Frye 

 has the skin of one, presented to him by an 

 explorer, which measures nine feet seven 

 inches exclusive of the tail of two inches. 

 Its girth around the body just back of the 

 forelegs is ten feet. 



