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which the words “ poor little bear!” were all 
that were intelligible. 
‘Pshaw!” said Matilda, half aside, to 
Kate. “It is more than half affectation, 
just to have a fuss made about her.” 
Annie favoured her cousin with a glance 
which was certainly not a very friendly one, 
and busied herself in comforting Daisy, who 
presently dried her eyes and looked up. 
“ It was foolish to cry,” she said; “ but it 
seemed so hard for the poor-” There 
was imminent danger of breaking down 
again; but she conquered it and returned to 
her work, without, however, trying to finish 
the sentence. 
“Poor Nannook seems to be a person of 
a good deal of character,” observed Rich¬ 
ard; “but she does not seem to hug like the 
other bears.” 
“ According to Dr. Kane, she makes 
more use of her teeth than of her paws. In 
another account of a fight between the dogs 
and a bear near the ship’s side, the bear 
seized her antagonists by the neck and 
threw them to a great distance. The New¬ 
foundlands generally alighted senseless; 
but the Esquimaux dogs, better trained to 
