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THE BROWN BEAR. IJ
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said the other little voice. ’ Are you mad ?’
cried the boy; ’ he would kill us and eat us.’
’ No, I am sure he would not,’ she said, ’ for
Nahley never harms little children, and only
defends himself against those that attack him
first.’ ’ Come along,’ cried the lad, and forced
his little sister away with him. I should very
much have liked to have seen that little girl,
who spoke so sensibly and kindly about us, but
I was afraid of frightening them, and really I
felt so sleepy that I couldn’t move. I soon
dozed off again, and dreamt that I was a young
bear-hunter, living in the woods, and that I met
Anna on a narrow path, and that we fell in love
with each other, and that her father, an old
soldier, consented to our marrying on condition
that I brought home, dead or alive, a big bear,
that was sometimes seen lurking about in the
forest, and of whom they were very much afraid,
as he had killed one of their neighbour’s cows.
I thought that I promised to do this easily
enough, as I knew his den ; and then I dreamt
that I returned to my own lair, and shot the
bear,—in fact, myself. At the report of the
gun I awoke. I emerged from my dwelling,
and listened, and sure enough, I heard far off
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