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this the flying hunter flew swiftly and safely to his home. His return 

 to his clau was announced by runners, and all assembled to listen to the 

 hunter's narration of his exploits and adventures. 



THE OLD man's LESSONS TO HIS NEPHEW. 



A man and his nephew lived together in a solitary place. The old 

 man one day said to his nephew, "You are now a young man. You 

 should be hunting larger game — a bear or a deer — for our support." 

 And he replied, " I will go." Then the old man gave him the best bow 

 and arrows, and in the morning he departed. When he returned home 

 he brought that which he had killed — a deer — and thought himself lucky 

 for a first attempt. "I should like," he said to his uncle, "to go every 

 day." Then the old man said, "Xow and again you may see a bear go 

 up a tree; if 'you see a hole in the tree and the marks of the bear's claws 

 you can be sure of the bear." 



So one day as the young man was out he saw a hole in a tree, and he 

 saw the claw marks of the bear, showing that he had gone up, so he 

 returned and told his uncle, and in the moi'ning they started together. 

 The old man said, " I believe there is a bear inside now. ' Our plan is 

 to knock around the outside of the tree and make the bear uueasy; 

 presently' he will come out." So they knocked, and the first thing they 

 knew the bear was sticking his head out of the hole. "Now," said the 

 uncle, " I will tell you when to shoot. If you will shoot just where 

 there is no hair, you will surely kill him." The young man saw that 

 the paws were without hair and he hit the bear on the fore-paw. 

 "Shoot again," said the uncle. So he shot the other paw. Then the 

 old man pointed and said, "Shoot here." And the nephew aimed and 

 shot the point of his uncle's finger. Then the old man's hand hurt 

 him, so to direct his nephew he pursed out his lips and pointed with 

 them, and the young man shot through his lips. Then the bear came 

 down and made his way off, while the uncle was explaining that his 

 meaning had been to shoot under the fore legs. The young man asked, 

 "Why did you not say so?" Then they started home for that day 

 without game. "To-morrow morning," said the uncle, "watch, for if 

 you will look between the roots of the large trees you may find a bear 

 in that way." 



Accordingly, the next day the young man found a hole near the root 

 of the tree and saw a large bear inside. So he went home and asked 

 his uncle for instructions how to get at the bear. The old man began 

 to explain, but, unfortunately, in a way that he could not understand. 

 He went into the corn field, gathered the cornstalks and stuck them 

 around the entrance to the hole, so that he surrounded the place where 

 the bear must come out. Then he knocked on the other side of the tree, 



