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of Fraser and Gordon, a storm of foam blew Beyond 

 like snow against the towers and steeples of tne Blue 

 Aberdeen. At least all this might well have ?J: pten ~ 

 been, if in those old ancient days there had been 

 any Aberdeen or Inverness to see it, or if there 

 were cobles and nets then, as, for all you or I or 

 the wind know, there may have been. Well, 

 the Bear swam away due north, and Finn after 

 it and his great hounds Luath and Dorch. It 

 took them a month to come up with it, and 

 then it was among mountains of solid ice with 

 the sea between hard as granite. Then it 

 came to the place where there's an everlasting 

 Rainbow. The Bear climbed this, to jump to 

 the other side of the Pole, but Luath ran up 

 one side and Dorch the other and Finn hurled 

 his great shining spears, one after the other: 

 so that down the bear came with a rush, and 

 so great was the noise and stramash that the 

 icebergs melted, and out flew thousands of 

 solanders and grey swans and scarts and God 

 knows what all, every kind of bird that is with 

 a web to its foot. The hounds fell into the 

 water, and the Bear lay on a floe like a 

 wounded seal, but Finn never moved an inch 

 but put spear after spear into the Bear. "Well, 

 you're dead now," he said ; " and if you're not, 

 you ought to be," he added, seeing that the 

 Bear was up again and ready to be off. 



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