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“ Was he af ter you? Where is Petter? ”
My heart was pounding. Bears usually
knocked a barn-door in with one whack, and
here we stood in pitch-black darkness.
Karsten was so out of breath he could
scarcely speak.
“ Oh! the way he ran! I never would have
believed a bear could run so! ” panted Karsten.
“Oh!—oh!—oh!” shrieked some one
out-side the barn. “ Help! oh, help! ”
It was Petter’s voice, and we heard also an
animal breathing quickly and then something
like a growl.
As with one impulse Andrine, Karsten, and
I sprang into a stall behind a cow. The bear
would surely take the cow first before it took
us. How unspeakably frightened I was!
Karsten wanted to get behind Andrine and me
too, and puffed and pushed himself in, and we
got to fighting there in the stall just from sheer
f right.
There came a horrible thump against the
barn-door, it burst open and Petter Kloed tum-
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