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TIIK inCAR MAN. 
Up Oil lii.s hind legs he nibbed his stomach with liis fore¬ 
paws — so — and at once he had lioth paws full of chestiuits 
and gave them to the man. He nibbed his .stomach 
again — so — and had his paws full of huckleberries, and 
gave them to the man. He rnblied again — so — and gave 
the man lioth paws full of blackberries. He nibbed again 
— so — -and had his paws full of acorns, but the man .said 
that he could not eat them, and that he had enough al¬ 
ready. 
The hunter lived in the cave with the bear all winter, 
until long hair like that of a bear began to grow all over 
his body and he began to act like a bear; but he still 
walked like a man. One da}^ in early .spring the bear said 
to him, “ Yonr people down in the settlement are getting 
ready for a grand hunt in these monntains, and they will 
come to this cave and kill me and take these clothes from 
me” — he meant his skin — ‘‘but they will not hurt yon 
and will take yon home with them.” The bear knew 
what the people were doing down in the settlement just as 
he alwa5i'S knew what the man was thinking about. Some 
days pas.sed and the bear said again. “This is the day 
when the Topknots will come to kill me, but the Split- 
noses will come first and find ns. When they have killed 
me the}' will drag me outside the cave and take off my 
clothes and cut me in pieces. Yon must cover the blood 
with leaves, and when they are taking yon away look back 
after yon have gone a piece and yon will see something.” 
Soon they heard the hunters coming up the mountain, 
and then the dogs found the cave and began to bark. 
The hunters came and looked inside and saw the bear and 
killed him with their arrows. Then they dragged him 
outside the cave and skinned the body and cut it in quar¬ 
ters to carry home. The dogs kept on barking until the 
hunters thought there must be another bear in the cave. 
They looked in again and saw the man away at the far- 
