Virginia illustrated : containing a visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins . DIVERSION. behavior of a pig at a trough would be considered deliberate andpolite. They leaped with their fore paws into the pan, and thrusttheir noses in the milk up to the eyes. When it was gone theyglued their lips to the bottom, and had to be forcibly draggedfrom the pan. They then seized their hairy paws, saturated withthe milk, and sucked them dry. After amusing myself for some time with the antics of these T ^ 290 PORTE CRAYON AND HIS THE CUBS FEEDING. young
Virginia illustrated : containing a visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins . DIVERSION. behavior of a pig at a trough would be considered deliberate andpolite. They leaped with their fore paws into the pan, and thrusttheir noses in the milk up to the eyes. When it was gone theyglued their lips to the bottom, and had to be forcibly draggedfrom the pan. They then seized their hairy paws, saturated withthe milk, and sucked them dry. After amusing myself for some time with the antics of these T ^ 290 PORTE CRAYON AND HIS THE CUBS FEEDING. young creatures, I accompaniedHenry to the scene of the com-bat, and on the ground receivedfrom him the details given in theforegoing narrative. His torngarments, his scars, the traces ofblood on the rocks, and the fur-rows made by the bears clawsin the chestnut log, all testifiedto the fury of the struggle andthe fidelity of the narrator. On our return to the cabin,I dined with my host on boiled squirrel and sour-crout. Thenthe bears skin was produced, and Henry proceeded to trace there-on further records of the fight. There was the shot-hole throughthe nose, which, to use Henrys expression, only made her bigmad. In one hind leg were seventeen holes from the teeth of theintrepid Watch. Yellow Dicks incisors were credited with elevenholes in the other leg. Here the left ear was half severed by thehatchet; and here, precisely in the centre of the forehead, was thefatal blow that spilled her life. The dogs, as may be suj)posed,were most interested listeners to this dis
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