The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-30
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bear caught sight
of him just the cautious crouched peer in be-
dense sight hunter
ahead Of him filed the bear with wrath With explosives
unged forward lightning stroke at the
Wildcats launches
that reached big cats hunting
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his muscles instinct which could quicker
thought itself It almost that the wind of the
descending failed purpose Of blow and
propelled the intended victim reach That vengefu
with mingled disappointment surprise and
bounding lightly the underbsh to resume the
search for squirrels The lamb meanwhile terri
by outside his
tae he
wildcat turned back the thcke nterogative
his savage the branches With
quite his cunning He knew
that the sheep folk more or less closely with
the folk; and ne knew that with al that 70
there went a certain peril
happened, however the seeming solitude of that
bright hillside was on this spring day. more deceptive
usual. In the wilds, what shady,
covert the innocent hollow behind massive stump
reveal Not twenty from the fir thcke and
shverng occupant hemock surrounded by
angle vine depth of this secluson,
about an hour before huge COW moose with her
Her hulk almost undstinguishabe in the gloom
she lay waggng her and comfortably Illuminating while
awkward calf sumbered side.
She had heard of the foolish bleang of the lamb
but beyond the tribute Of waving one wide ear toward
had paid it attention whatever OF what
to her mbece lamb what might befall it for
its folly?
But when there came on the light air drawing thru
branches faint which she knew and feared and hated
Indifference The bear, stealing the fir
thcket the What could
bear be doing her neighborhood devising mischief
question rising noiselessy her
stood peering for a sight of the foe
the sudden attack of the bear
the wildcat She cats discontinue.
the hunting for the lonely little
beatng thcke that the quarrel Of
this instance however she cared nothing whose
The might have hunted all the lambs in
would have paid scant heed But the bear
anywhere and alvays-the deadiest
It the lamb just it might be,
her calf her vigilance should chance to slumber
for an instant strden below hatred
the bushes and charged the
pectng foe.
The bear, less sleepessly guard than the
completely surprise At that omnous voice behind
him, branches wheeled sharp
y dodge attack But he quite quick
The great batterng hooves caught him ripped him
edges and beat him to the ground The old
COW hugest of her huge kind and he
mother He struck mady grapped,
tree; woods him This tree
was very which the cal waiting In
panic Of the old charged him. caught him
fairly his life out Them with TANKS and foreegs
streaming Indignantly led off her calf to other
neighborhoods.
When silence had fallen again upon the hillside
lamb terrified his complaints
nothing except fierce muzze and two hungry
branches But he had heard
appalling smeIed hot frghtful smells Dull tho
he was he had learned a wilderness lesson. ;s
Some minutes later the old black came back At
the sight the bear at the smell Of
angriy. sight of the black lamb trembling but
harmed treasured But when she had nosed all
and insisted it's making effort
pushed forth from the ticket, and
gradually led it from the desecated spot