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venturous Harrison, and attacked him from behind with great 

 ferocity. Jacob turned upon the new foe, and wielded his trusty 

 weapon with such energy and success, that in a short time he 

 deprived her of one of her fore paws by a lucky stroke, and com- 

 pletely disabled her eventually by a desperate cut across the 

 neck, which divided the tendons and severed the spinal vertel 

 Having completed his conquest (in achieving which he found the 

 sword a better weapon than the ax, the animal being unable to 

 knock it from his hand, every attempt to do so being followed by 

 a wound), he had ample time to dispatch the imprisoned cub at 

 leisure. 



11 During the time this stirring and dangerous scene we have 

 related was enacting, Avar was going on in equally bloody and 

 vigorous style at a short distance. Mr. Burke, having discharged 

 his gun at the other old bear, only slightly wounded him ; the 

 : id Bruin sprang at him with a furious howl. He was met 

 with a blow from the butt-end of the fowling-piece. At the 

 Btroke the stock flew in pieces, and the next the heavy bar- 

 rel was hurled a distance of twenty feet among the underwood 

 by a side blow from the dexterous paw of the bear. Mr. Burke 

 then retreated a lew feet and placed his back against a large 

 Hemlock, followed the while closely by the hear, but, being ac- 

 quainted with the nature of the animal and his mode of at1 

 he drew a Large bunting-knife from his belt, and, placing his arms 

 by li oily awaited i lie on 



" The madden I. growlin 



teeth, and with acircled the body of the hunter 



and the tree in lus iron gripe. T moment the flat 



blade of I 



entrails rolled upon the ground. f the 



sine: impanied I ame up in 



■ to wi1 aess the i riumpha 



"Two old bears and a cub were the fruits of this di 



