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Title: Black Bruin
The Biography of a Bear

Author: Clarence Hawkes

Illustrator: Charles Copeland

Release Date: May 9, 2007 [EBook #21398]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Frontispiece: BLACK BRUIN'S FIRST ACQUAINTANCE WITH A PANTHER]

BLACK BRUIN

The Biography of a Bear

By

Clarence Hawkes

Author of

Shaggycoat, The Biography of a Beaver
The Trail to the Woods
Tenants of the Trees
The Little Foresters
etc.

Illustrated by

Charles Copeland

Philadelphia

George W. Jacobs & Co.

Publishers

Copyright, 1908, by

GEORGE W. JACOBS AND COMPANY

_All rights reserved_

Printed in U. S. A.

Dedicated to

My illustrator and friend

MR. CHARLES COPELAND

whose clever brush has caught so
perfectly each whim of nature in
field and forest, and called from
hiding the furtive furred and
feathered folk, who come and go
like shadows in the ancient woods.

THE GREAT BEAR OF THE MOUNTAINS

He had stolen the belt of Wampum
From the neck of Mishe-mokwa,
From the Great Bear of the mountains,
From the terror of the nations,
As he lay asleep and cumbrous,
On the summit of the mountains,
Like a rock with mosses on it,
Spotted brown and gray with mosses.
--LONGFELLOW.

CONTENTS

URSUS, THE DROLL. INTRODUCTORY
I. A THIEF IN THE NIGHT
II. THE CHASE
III. A WILDERNESS BABY
IV. THE CUBHOOD OF BLACK BRUIN
V. A ROLLICKING ROGUE
VI. THE LIFE OF A DANCING-BEAR
VII. THE VAGABONDS
VIII. THE BEAST AND THE MAN
IX. LIFE IN THE WILD
X. THE GREAT BEAR-HUNT
XI. A PLEASANT COMPANION
XII. THE KING OF THE MOUNTAIN
XIII. THE BEAR WITH A COLLAR
XIV. THE WRECK

ILLUSTRATIONS

Black Bruin's first acquaintance with a panther . . . _Frontispiece_

The bear hurried in hot pursuit

Black Bruin dealt the porcupine a crushing blow

Growler sprang at Black Bruin's throat

He discovered anoth