Harper's story booksA series of narratives, dialogues, biographies, and tales, for the instruction and entertainment of the youngEmbellished with numerous and beautiful engravings . fishery in the world is on the coast of Ceylon. XXII. THE NORWEGIAN AND THE BEAR. The man in the next engraving is a Norwegian—that is, helives in Xorway. He is a traveler. He is passing on foot by apath through the mountains, to save traveling a longer distance bythe road. They told him it was not safe for him to go that way. Why not ? said he. There are bears about,5 said they. How do you know V asked the travele
Harper's story booksA series of narratives, dialogues, biographies, and tales, for the instruction and entertainment of the youngEmbellished with numerous and beautiful engravings . fishery in the world is on the coast of Ceylon. XXII. THE NORWEGIAN AND THE BEAR. The man in the next engraving is a Norwegian—that is, helives in Xorway. He is a traveler. He is passing on foot by apath through the mountains, to save traveling a longer distance bythe road. They told him it was not safe for him to go that way. Why not ? said he. There are bears about,5 said they. How do you know V asked the traveler. 100 THE NORWEGIAN AND THE BEAR. The traveler in Norway. The Norwegian bears. Because, said the people, they have carried off some of oursheep and our calves. A bear, when he is hungry, will break into a barn, or any othersuch inclosure where he thinks there are sheep or calves. If hefinds that there are any there, he seizes the first one that comesin his way, kills it, and carries it off into the mountains. Therehe seeks some wild and solitary place, as, for example, a chasmin the rocks, or the cover of some dark evergreens or pines, anddevours his prey at his THE NORWEGIAN AND THE BEAU. 101 The bear disturbed at his dinner. The traveler, in ascending the path at a point where it leadsaround the point of a rock, has come suddenly upon a bear, in avery lonely place, to which the monster has retreated in order todevour a calf which he has borne away from some farmers yarddown in the valley. He growls terrifically when he sees a mancoming, for he supposes that he has come to disturb him in thepossession of his prey. But the man will not disturb him. Hethinly only of his own safety. He will shrink back again as soonas possible round the rocks, and go as fast as he can down thevalley. If he had a gun he would shoot the savage monster, buthe has nothing but his staff, and it would be wholly useless to at-tack the bear with such a weapon as that. The bear will not attac
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