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The hard-scrabble of Elm Island (1871)

Kellogg, Elijah, 1813-1901 · Boston : Lee and Shepard · leaf 265

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, and upset, eat, and wastedthe whole of it. As they were going home, la-menting their hard luck, they met a bear — drunk!John Carver had put up a story-and-a-half loghouse the day before, and they had left a pailful ofnew rum, sweetened with molasses, sitting on someboards in the garret. This bear… … TJXCLE ISAACS BEAR STOEY. 253 • them down to the shore. He had got it all overhis ears and breast, and the chips, where they hadhewed the frame, all stuck to him, and he was thequeerest sight you ever saw! He couldnt walk,but would sit up and look at us, and then roll overon one side, then get back…

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