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at twilight. If you anger him, then he swoops down
upon you, and tears out your eyes, for he is not a
real bird, but an evil spirit.
And there, too, lives the most terrible of all the
forest beasts—the bear, which has the strength of
twelve men, and, when once he has become
blood-thirsty, can only be killed by a silver bullet.
Can anything give a beast a nimbus of greater
terror than this, that he can only be killed by a
silver bullet? What are the secret, awful powers that
dwell within him, and make him impervious to
ordinary lead! A child will lie awake many long hours,
shuddering in fear of the wicked beast which the
evil powers protect.
If you should meet him in the forest, tall as a
moving mountain, you must not run away nor try
to defend yourself; you must throw yourself down
on the earth and pretend to be dead. Many little
children have lain in fancy on the ground with a
bear bending over them. He has turned them over
with his paw, and they have felt his hot, panting
breath on their faces, but they lay motionless till
he went away to dig a hole to bury them in. Then
they rose gently and crept away, first slowly, then in
wildest flight. But think! Think if the bear had not
found them to be really dead, but had given them
a bite to make sure, or if he had been hungry and
had eaten them at once, or if he had seen them when
they crept away and had pursued them! Oh, God!
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