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Polar bears fighting

Identifier: huntingtrappings00pric (find matches)
Title: Hunting and trapping stories; a book for boys
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: (Price, J. P. Hyde), 1874- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Hunting
Publisher: New York, McLoughlin bro's
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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om the ship and a second boatput out at once and picked up four of the men who had m.anaged to keepafloat. The bear swam to shore again and prepared to beat off any of itsenemies that attempted to land, for its wound had roused it to fury Curiouslyenough only one of the three bears took part in the fighting, for had they allcome to the attack they could have held off the entire ships crew. The second boat contained the captain of the ship and . he was morecautions. He fired at the bear and the shot passed through its heart andlungs. The great creature flung up its head and gave forth one peculiar sound,between a cough and a sob, and rolled over on its back dead. The othertwo bears, seeing their mate slain, then hastened away and allowed the mento land and gather up their seal pelts. It is not an uncommon thing for boat parties to be attacked in this way.The polar bear has an excellent sense of smell, and you must remember thatthe scent of flesh travels a long way in those icy regions.
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POLAR BKARS FIGHTING. A LEOPARD STORY A gentleman lixing near Agra in India was very proud of a GreatDane dog that he owned. This dog was a great pet with the soldiers inthe camp, and it is doubful if there was a finer specimen in all India. Nowyou must know that dogs of this breed are very large and strong and whenattacked usually beat their enemies off easily. One evening the gentleman while out walking on the edge of a smalllake near a jungle heard his dog growling fiercely. He went in the directionof the sound to see what Was the matter and found that his dog had flushedan enormous leopard. Neither had made any attack, but the instant the

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  • booksubject:Hunting
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