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THE BROWN BEAR. IJ
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it is a common belief amongst them that the
ghosts of bad people who had been murdered
in the neighbourhood, if ever so long ago,
sometimes jump into their conveyances and have a
ride with them, and then set the horse off at
a desperate speed, to end in the destruction of
both beast and sledge. I wandered for days
in the forest, finding no food, for though hares
and feathered game abounded, they were too
fleet for me. At last I managed to enter a sty
at a large farm, and made a splendid meal of a
fat pig, that would sustain me till I reached my
old lair, where I meant to go to sleep again for
the rest of the winter, for home has an
attraction even for a bear, and I deemed it the safest
place now, since the bear-hunters must have
satisfied themselves that I had left the vicinity
for a more distant tract of the immense forest
Homeward I trotted during the night,
and climbed some tall pine in the day, from
which I could have a good survey of the
country round. There were many wayfarers
on the roads and great bustle at the
homesteads, from which I inferred that it must be
near Christmas-time. I had always been asleep
at this time of the year, but now, once dis-
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