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THE BEAR, 
much as it puts its foot down to walk, sr that its 
feet look very flat. I have seen more than one 
kind of Bear kept for show : some can be made 
very tame, like the one I told you of, and some are 
not easy to tame. Some eat meat ; some do not. 
All of them have long hair. One kind has its 
home in the cold snow and on the ice : this kind 
eats fish, and will also lie in wait for a long time at 
a hole in the ice for a seal to come up for air, when 
he will kill the seal and eat it. Men hunt this kind 
of Bear for the sake of its skin, as the fur is long 
and very warm ; it is very fond of its cubs. 
In a Bear hunt, if the dogs fly at the Bear, it 
will take them up in its arms, and hug them so 
hard as to kill them. It is not easy for a man to 
get away from it, as it can get up a tree. One kind 
of Bear does not like snow and ice, so when it gets 
cold it will make a den in a hole in some tree, and 
lie in it till the cold is gone : it will only wake now 
and then, as long as it is cold ; and it gets very 
lean and thin, but it will soon be fat when once the 
cold is over. 
Some men eat the Bear, and use its fat for oil ; 
and we are told that the paws are very nice to eat 
