CHAPTER X. 



HOW TO HUNT AND TRz\P THE BEAE. 



The American black "bear is of two kinds. One is 

 short-legged and has a heavy body, sometimes weighing 

 five hundred pounds, and is black all over. The other is 

 longer legged, not generally so heavy, and has a brown 

 face. This one is a great racer. Wherever there is much 

 woods or forest, there bears abound. They are not put 

 together like the dog or hog, or any other animal. Their 

 fore legs bend like a man's arms, and they use them in the 

 same way. 



They are great hog eaters. Their mode of catching 

 the hog is to take him up in their arms and squeeze him 

 some, commencing at the same time to take their dinner 

 out of the shoulder and neck at the back of the hog, 

 while alive, and squealing as only a hog can squeal. 



Bruin will carry a hog as heavy as himself, holding him 



in his arms clear of the ground, crossing a stream on a 



log as steadily as a man could do it. He is not troubled 



with a tail when in an upright position, for he has no tail 



to speak of. His ears are small, his mouth large, his teeth 



strong, his fore paws like a man's hand, Iiis hind feet and 



legs much like a man's feet and legs. I liave skinned a 



fat bear and stretched him out, lying on his face, his 

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