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Foam—A Razor-Backed Hog 
plentiful than those around? It is so, and she kept 
hurrying on till farther from home than ever before! 
Then a log-cock hammered on a hollow tree. My! 
How loud it was, and Lizette paused open-mouthed. 
Then, as she harkened, a different sound was heard, 
a loud “‘sniff, sniff.” The brushwood swayed and 
out there stepped a huge black Bear. 
At the little frightened ‘‘Oh!” the Bear stopped, 
reared up to his great height, and stood there gazing 
and letting off, at each few seconds, a loud, far- 
reaching ‘‘Woof.” Poor Lizette was terror stricken. 
She could neither speak nor run. She simply stood 
and gazed. So did the Bear. 
Then another noise arose, a deep grunt and a lot 
of little grunties. ‘‘A whole pack of Bears,” 
thought poor Lizette, but she could not move, 
She merely gazed toward the new sounds. So did | 
the Bear. 
This time when the tall grass parted it was to 
show, not a lot of Bears, but the old Razor-back 
long missing from the barnyard, and her lively 
grunting brood. 
Very rarely does a Bear molest a child, very 
rarely does he miss a chance for pork. The black 
monster dropped on all fours and charged at the 
mother and her brood. 
The fierce defiant war-grunts of the mother might | 
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