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252 TRUE BEAR STORIES. 



distance I turned my head and saw the 

 bear running in the opposite direction. I 

 did not stop, however, and I got to the 

 ranch nearly an hour before the old cow. 



In the shingle mills of the North the Nor- 

 wegian hands have the same veneration for 

 the bear as the Indian. They always 

 speak of him not as a bear, but as "the old 

 man with the fur coat on." 



