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vigour than ever on his devoted head, and again Bruin 

 disappeared to prepare for round number three. And 

 so it went on for some time, till at last the man and 

 the axe got the day, and Bruin lay dead at his feet. 



The above story was told me in Norwegian, and loses 

 not a little by being translated. 



In the month of February, this year, 1863, an old 

 she-bear and two cubs were shot in Ostre Slidre, in 

 Valders, in the following way : Three men one da/ 

 found a " hie," and one stuck a pole down it to see 

 if Bruin were at home. He had not done so long ere 

 he "got a bite," and called to his comrades to aim in 

 the direction of the pole. They accordingly put the 

 muzzles of their rifles as far in as they could in the 

 required direction and fired. Supposing the bear must 

 have got his "quietus," he now commenced crawling 



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into the " hie " to see the result, but had not got 

 far before the bear bolted right over him and escaped. 

 She was killed, however, the following day, and it was 

 found that her jaw had been already broken. The two 

 cubs were lying quite dead at the bottom of the " hie." 

 Lucky was it for them that the old bear made off, 

 as their guns being unloaded they would probably have 

 come off worst had she attacked them. 



In the middle of March, this year, a man discovered 

 a bear " hie " in a hay barn. In company with two 

 others he had gone to fetch a load of hay home, when 



