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ther end. At first they thought it was another bear on 
account of his long hair, but they soon saw it was the hun¬ 
ter who had been lost the year before, so they went in and 
brought him out. Then each hunter took a load of the 
bear meat and they started home again, bringing the man 
and the skin with them. Before they left the man piled 
leaves over the spot where the}^ had cut up the bear, and 
when they had gone a little way he looked behind and saw 
the bear rise up out of the leaves, shake himself, and go 
back into the woods. 
When they came near the settlement the man told the 
hunters that he must be shut up where no one could see 
him, without anything to eat or drink for seven days and 
seven nights, until the bear nature had left him and he be¬ 
came like a man again. So they shut him up alone in a 
house and tried to keep ver}^ still about it, but the news 
got out and his wife heard of it. She came for her hus¬ 
band, but the people would not let her near him ; but she 
came every day and begged so hard that at last after four 
or five days they let her have him. She took him home 
with her, but in a short time he died, because he still had 
a bear’s nature and could not live like a man. If they 
had kept him shut up and fasting until the end of the 
seven days he would have become a man again and would 
have lived. 
The desert mountains gathered in clusters along the waste, how 
old and wrinkled, how set and determined they look! Somehow 
they remind you of a clenched hand with the knuckles txirned sky¬ 
ward. They have strength and bulk, the suggestion of quiescent 
force. Barren rock and nothing more; but what could better epit¬ 
omize power ! The heave of the enormoiis ridge, the loom of the 
domed top, the bulk and Ijody of the whole are colossal. Rising as 
they do from flat sands they give the impression of things deep- 
based — veritable islands of porphyry bent upward from a 5'ellow 
sea .— -John C. Van Dyke, in The Desert. 
