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expression imaginable, immediately followed by action, 

 they put me much in mind of some of the monkey 

 tribe. 



The strength of the bear is really prodigious, fully 

 equal to that of ten men, as was once proved by a tame 

 bear in this province hauling a barrel which had been 

 smeared with molasses, and contained a little oatmeal, 

 away from the united efforts of the number of men 

 mentioned, who held on to a rope passed round the 

 barrel. The bear walked away with it as easily as pos- 

 sible. The same bear, having nearly killed a horse, and 

 scalped a boy, was afterwards destroyed by his owner. 

 The way he tried to do for the animal was curious 

 enough; he approached the horse, which was loose in 

 the road, from behind ; on its attempting to kick, the 

 bear caught hold of its hind legs, just above the fetlocks, 

 with the quickness of lightning ; the horse tried to kick 

 again, and the bear, with the greatest apparent ease, 

 shoved its hind legs under till the horse was fairly 

 brought on its haunches, when the rascal at once jumped 

 on its back, and, with one tremendous blow, buried its 

 powerful claws into the muscle of the shoulder, and the 

 horse, trembling and in a profuse perspiration, rolled 

 over and would have been killed if the affair had not 

 been witnessed and the bear at this juncture driven 

 away. 



I have been told by an Indian of a scene he once wit- 

 nessed in the woods when resting on the shore of a lake 

 before proceeding across a portage with his canoe. A 

 crashing of branches proclaimed the rapid advance of a 

 large animal in flight. In a few moments a fine young 

 moose, about half grown, dashed from the forest into the 



