no CURIOUS CREATURES. 



Shoots ; and if a Deer, trusting to the glory of his 

 horns, or quick smell, or swift running, come too neare 

 that place unawares, she suddenly falls out upon him to 

 kill him ; and if he first defend himself with his horns, 

 yet he is so tired with the knots and weight of them, 

 being driven by the rage of the Bear, that he is beaten 

 to the ground, that losing force and life, he falls down 

 a prey to be devoured. Then she will set upon the 

 Bull with his horns, using the same subtilty, and casts 



herself upon his back ; and when the Bull strives with 

 his horns to cast off the Bear, and to defend himself, 

 she fasteneth on his horns and shoulders with hef paws, 

 till, weary of the weight he falls down dead. Then 

 laying the Bull on his back like a Wallet, she goes on 

 two feet into the secret places of the Woods to feed upon 

 him. But when, in Winter she is hunted, she is betrayed 

 by Dogs, or by the prints of her feet in the Snow, and 

 can hardly escape from the Hunters that run about her 

 from all sides." 



Magnus then retails the usual fables about bears 



