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33 22 FABLED STORIES FROM THE ZOO.
who drew aside to allow us to pass, I heard
them call out with oaths : ’ A runaway horse!
and two peasants dead-drunk in the sledge!
Now for Bruin ; let no one break the chain, for
we are close upon the bear’s lair, and we mustn’t
let Nahley escape.’ But Nahley did escape at
this very moment, before their very eyes,
without their perceiving it."
" If that had been an American bear, I
might have thought your story true," said the
American Bruin.
" Our rapid journey continued for a mile
or two, till when I was fairly out of danger
from the pursuit of the two hundred peasants
that had gathered for the chain-hunt, I jumped
out of the sledge, at which the horse took
fright again, gave a loud neigh, bounded
off at an increased gallop, and smashed the
sledge against the stump of a tree, so that the
tipsy peasant was tumbled out, and, I dare say,
got sobered down in the snow. The horse
entangled himself in the brushwood, and there
I left them both, to be taken care of by
passers-by in the morning. No doubt the peasant
would swear that Old Nick, or some evil spirit,
had ridden in his company in the sledge, for
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