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or fourteen. The boys made as fast as possible towards the tree, carrying the heavy trap between them. On the tree were two little cubs, only just large enough to climb, clinging among the branches.

"Brother," said Elijah, in a most excited tone, “I have a plan; one of us must go up and punch the cubs to make them cry, while the other shall hold the trap down here, and catch the old bear in it when she comes.

"Yes," said John.

"Well, have your choice, John." "I'd rather stay with the trap."

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Without further words, up went Elijah to tease the little bears, and infuriate their mamma.

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Poor little bears! They were greatly alarmed at the sight of that rough clambering boy, intruding into their green withdrawing-room, and they trembled and cried out piteously for their mother. In a moment something black was seen on the top of a hillock, and on rushed the angry, savage beast directly toward the nursery where she had left her darlings.

"What are you doing at the foot of my tree, you ugly boy? Now, I'll eat you right up!" said she, by "actions which speak louder than words."

John was holding the large trap open before him, his back resting against the tree, the end of the trap resting on the ground, when the bear dashed at him furiously, with mouth wide open. Snap went the strap, and poor Mrs. Bruin was fast.

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Home went the boys, each of them carrying a cub.

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But they went back with the boys, and there sure enough was the mother bear the foot of the tree, muzzled with the heavy trap. So she was shot, and her meat filled the pork-barrel.

Even at this distant day I cannot feel but sorry in my heart for that poor mamma of a bear. But I daresay all the boys who read this story, will feel altogether on the side of Elijah and John; and to you older ones, who will understand me, I cannot help saying that I wish a certain other black bear that we know of, a savage, malicious beast, that has trampled, devoured and wasted in Uncle Sam's cornfields, to its heart's content, were as effectually trapped and gagged.

And there are other kinds of bears whose hug is death, and they want slaying. We admire the courage of the boys who captured Mrs. Bruin, and like to think that for years and years the memory of their brave deed lives in the there are

done, taxing a higher and stouter courage, and there is not a boy or girl alive who has not opportunities to encounter enemies more formidable than the bear of our story. And you know where the weapons are to be found which alone can enable you to be successful in the conflict.

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GEORGE UNWIN, GRESHAM STEAM PRESS, BUCKLERSBURY, LONDON. E.C.

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