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A report of this strange story was soon carried to the Duke, 

 who, with some of his nobles, wished to see so curious and 

 interesting a sight with their own eyes. They therefore one 

 night went and staid near the bear's hut, where they could 

 now and then look in, and see what was doing. They saw 

 with astonishment that the animal never stirred, so long as 

 the boy lay still and continued to sleep. The child awaked 

 very early in the morning, and was much ashamed to find that 

 the Duke and his gentlemen were looking at him ; he was 

 also afraid of being punished, for being found there. The 

 bear all this time, was trying to make the boy eat what had 

 been brought to him the night before, and which he finally 

 did, at the request of the gentlemen. The Duke was so much 

 pleased with this singular friendship, that he had the little 

 boy fed and taken care of, but the poor little fellow died a short 

 time after. 



BEAR HUNTING. The substance of this is from Dr. God- 

 man's book. A common mode of hunting the black bear, is 

 to follow him with two or three dogs. When the creature 

 finds that he is pursued, he will run straight forward, eight or 

 ten miles, or farther, if not overtaken sooner. When the dogs 

 come up with him, he turns and defends himself with great 

 ferocity, so that if they do not take care to avoid his grasp, he 

 will kill them on the spot. To avoid the dogs, he often climbs 

 a tree, before they overtake him, but here he has very little 

 rest, for as soon as he sees that the hunter is coming, he throws 

 himself to the ground and runs away as fast as he can, being 

 still pursued and vexed by these animals. Again he finds 

 himself obliged to climb a tree, to avoid his enemies, and goes 

 up to the very top, where he tries to hide himself among the 

 branches, so that the hunter cannot see him. But the dogs 

 will show the hunter where he is, whether he can see him or 

 not, and coming to the tree, he strikes against it with his 

 hatchet, as though he was going to cut it down. The bear 

 hearing this, and knowing that he cannot make his escape 

 down the trunk of the tree, goes to one of the longest branches, 



