stion about the tree spoke
up and said:

"No good climbing a tree. Bear better climber than any hunter. Tree
only good for you to fight bear at the bottom. Put back against tree.
Black bear rise up and come to hug you to death. He then never bite or
tear. Only hug. He try to squeeze the life out of you. So with good
knife, and your back against a tree, keep cool. Let bear come, and when
he stand up on his hind legs and try to hug, you just give him your good
knife straight in the heart. Bear fall over dead. You not hurt at all.
All needed, keep cool all the time. No brave white boy with good knife
and plenty trees must ever run away from black bear any more."

Thus he went on in his broken English to Sam's mortification, and he
found that in using his good legs, that had often carried him in first
in many a race at school, he had gone down very much in the estimation
of the Indians, who think it is simply foolishness, as well as
cowardice, if armed with anything like a decent knife, to refuse to give
battle to a bear from the trunk of the nearest tree. Thus the boys were
getting points and learning lessons by experience in reference to
hunting.

Mr Ross did not chide the lad, but thought that it would have been
better if, when he discovered the fresh track of the bear, he had
immediately returned to the camp for assistance. The fact is, Mr Ross
was very thankful that nothing worse had happened.

Frank and Alec listened with intense interest to Sam's account of his
race back to the camp with the bear at his heels, and both declared that
they would have done likewise. Later on we will find that they were
able to successfully adopt the Indian methods, much to their delight.

Three Boys in the Wild North Land--by Egerton Ryerson Young

CHAPTER EIGHT.

PRESERVING MEAT--CUNNING PARTRIDGES--CELESTIAL PHENOMENON--THE FEARFUL
HURRICANE--CAUGHT IN THE STORM--DISASTER--THE MISCHIEVOUS WOLVERINE--
ALEC'S SHOT.

The sun was shining brightly next morning ere the musical "Koos-koos-
kah" rang out, calling them from their slumbers. When the boys arose
they found the big bear already skinned, and some portions of his hams,
cut as steaks, were being broiled, while his spareribs were skidded on a
couple of sticks, and were being roasted a nice brown colour, in front
of the fire which burned so brightly on the rocks. The savoury odour of
the cooking breakfast was welcome to the boys.

A hasty plunge in the fr