. Wild brother; strangest of true stories from the north woods. Watching for his enemy, the dog. One of Brunos zvild relatives broke into this cask and dippedthe molasses out with his pazv THE BEAR MAKES A JOURNEY 77 barrels of pork, flour, sugar, and molasses are putaway for safe-keeping. Windows and doors areboarded over and securely fastened, as a protectionagainst marauding animals; but in spite of theseprecautions, the bears sometimes break in and steal. We found such a place one day in the black rascals had torn off the boards from thelog-house door and had rolled out a puncheo
. Wild brother; strangest of true stories from the north woods. Watching for his enemy, the dog. One of Brunos zvild relatives broke into this cask and dippedthe molasses out with his pazv THE BEAR MAKES A JOURNEY 77 barrels of pork, flour, sugar, and molasses are putaway for safe-keeping. Windows and doors areboarded over and securely fastened, as a protectionagainst marauding animals; but in spite of theseprecautions, the bears sometimes break in and steal. We found such a place one day in the black rascals had torn off the boards from thelog-house door and had rolled out a puncheon ofmolasses. With their sharp teeth and claws theyhad broken a hole through the tough oak head andwith their paws had dipped out every drop fromthe cask. Now that we had an opportunity toobserve at close view the sagacity of little Bruno,it was easier for us to understand how his wildbrothers could be such ingenious thieves. One noon, on the shores of the lake, as we werepreparing to boil the kettle, I had a , our Indian guide, coming out from the busheswhere he had gone for dry
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