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however, he began to bleed from the nose and ears; and in his 

 violent effort to struggle free, he noticed that he was swinging 

 from side to side; then it dawned upon him that if he could only 

 increase the radius of his swing he might manage to reach and 

 seize hold of the tree, climb up to slacken the line, unfasten the 

 snare, and set himself free. This, after much violent effort, 

 he finally accomplished; but even when he reached the ground, 

 everything seemed utterly hopeless, for on account of his dis- 

 located leg, he could not walk. So there he lay all night long. 

 During twilight, as fate ordained, the wounded man had a 

 visitor; it was a bear, and no doubt the very bear for which he 

 had set his snare. But the bear, in approaching, did not notice 

 the man until it was almost on top of him, and then it became 

 so frightened that it tore up into a neighbouring tree and there 

 remained for hours. By midnight, however, it came down, 

 and then it was the suffering hunter's turn to become alarmed, 

 for the big brute passed very close to him before it finally walked 

 away. A little after sunrise the hunter's son arrived, but not 

 being able to carry his father, and fearing lest the bear might 

 return before he could secure help, he decided to leave his 

 father there, while he went in search of the bear. Tracking it, 

 he soon came upon it and shot it dead. Back he hastened to 

 camp and, with his mother, returned with a sled and hauled 

 the wounded man home. 



THE FOX AT HOME 



The "coloured" foxes, including the red, the cross, the silver, 

 and the black — the latter three being merely colour phases 

 of the former and not separate species, as has frequently been 

 proved, but all four having been found in the same litter — mate 

 in February and March. They pair and remain faithful partners. 

 The father also helps in feeding and caring for the young which 

 are born about fifty days after the mating season. The litter 



