THE BEAR IN CAMP. 
Lanates, but without in any degree disturbing the un¬ 
welcome visitor; specially unwelcome at that time and 
place, for all the guns had been left on the sledge, a 
little distance off, and there was not so much as a 
walking-pole inside. There was of course something 
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of natural confusion in the little council of war. The 
first impulse was to make a rush for the arms; but 
this was soon decided to be very doubtfully practicable, 
if at all, for the bear, having satisfied himself with his 
observations of the exterior, now presented himself at 
the tent-opening. Sundry volleys of lucifer matches 
and some impromptu torches of newspaper were fired 
