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in the tree, he had, in his efforts to catch his prey, made a 

 great leap, and in his fall got thus fixed. A spruce pine of 

 nearly six inches in diameter, growing close at hand, was 

 nearly bitten through hy the beast whilst thus imprisoned. 

 The people in the village stated they had heard for some 

 considerable time a sort of plaintive howling in the forest, 

 but no one would take the trouble to ascertain the cause, 

 which was not found out until some time afterwards, when 

 the herd- boy accidentally discovered the carcase suspended 

 in the manner described." 



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