CHAPTER XVII. 



THE BEAR AND CHILD COURAGEOUS CHILDREN DARING PRESENCE OF 



MIND THE BEAR AND BELL-RINGER HARD-FOUGHT FIELD. 



WE know that the lion and the lamb will ultimately lie 

 down together ; but if the following story be true and from 

 the authentic source whence it comes to us, it can hardly be 

 doubted the same good fellowship must already exist at 

 times between the bear and little children. 



" During the summer time" such is the substance of a 

 published letter, dated Trysil, in Osterdalen, Norway, the 19th 

 of October, 1850 "the peasants hereabouts as well on the 

 Norwegian as the Swedish frontier are accustomed to 

 pasture their cattle at Saterna, or Shealings, far distant from 

 their homes; and for this purpose a part, and sometimes 

 the whole, of the family often migrate to these temporary 

 habitations. During the past autumn, two full-grown 

 women with four children, of whom the eldest was ten 

 years old, and the youngest about two, from Hagnasen, 

 in the parish of Serna, were thus domiciled. 



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