Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 532
g out in the bank. Thiswas covered with layers of dry leaves and abig blanket of withered grass. In the top ofthe bank a tiny hole had been dug, which opened out in some thick bushes and was evi-dently an air-hole. Just outside the entrance,the bear had piled an armful of dry sticks,evidently… … OtTT OF THE BANK CAME A BIG BLACK BEAE (SEE NEXT PAGE) have died fighting before giving up the secretof his winter castle. Some years ago I was fishing for land-locked salmon through the ice in Maine inMarch. Just before I came to my wintercamp, two small boys went out hunting fromthe nearest town…
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