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The bear had two kind of ideas. One was to 

 climb a tree and the second to run away, neither 

 of which was carried into effect, for a bullet 

 stopped the cowardly act of running, and a 

 second one in the ear stilled him forever. The 

 skin and the paws were all the hunter carried 

 away. The meat would be got when the men 

 came for the moose. 



Na-ta-way was very soon swinging on down 

 the mountain and struck a creek which emptied 

 into one of a chain of lakes, that in turn drained 

 into the big Ka-kee-bon-ga lake upon which the 

 post was situated. Following down this creek 

 he noticed ahead of him a mink, working his 

 way up along the shore, noseing every hole as 

 he came. Nothing was too big or too small for 

 Na-ta-way. Poor little mink! 



When he got abreast of the man on the ice, 

 stood on its hind legs to get a better view of the 

 strange object, but at that instant its sight be- 

 came blurred, for it tumbled over dead. It was 

 so full of life, energy and curiosity a few mo- 

 ments ago, was now being carried on the In- 

 dian's back, shoved into the folds of the bear 

 skin. 



But then, if we moralize, a man is walking 

 with elastic step along a street when Presto! 

 the heart stops, and he is being carried feet fore- 



