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THE BEAR'S FACE need

(Continued from

“I ran straight to the edge, and "A healthy-lookin' rattler, hial was a big snort, kind of surprised jest managed to throw myself fiat diamond-pattern back bright in like, an the face disappeared." I [on my face an” clutch at the grass the sun, came out of the crevice felt a sight better.

I

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like mad to keep from pitchin*jan" stopped on the shelf to take a "Fer maybe five minutes nothin” ¡cléan out into space. It was a look at the weather.

else happened. I sat there fig drop all right-two hundred foot "It struck me right odd that he gerin” how I was going to git out or more of sheer diff. An' the was on his way down to this poe-o that hole an" my figgerin” bear was not thirty yards behind;ket o* mine, which was maybe his wasn't anyways satisfactory.

I knew the bear was a "stayer, all Įme.

favourite country residence. didn't like the idee of his comin' right. There'd be no such "I looked at the bear, as I laid jan' findin' me there, when Fd thing as tryin' to crawl "round there clutchin' the grass roots never been invited I'd have got that shoulder o rock till I was Then I looked down over the edge-away if I could. But not bein' blame sure he wasn't on tother I didn't feel frightened exactly able to, there was nothin' fer me side; an' how I was goin' to find but jest at this point I was mighty to do but try an' make myself un- that out was more than I could antions You'll believe, then, it

pleasant

git at. was kind o" good to me to see.

a thing as "I grabbed a handful of dirt "There was such right below, maybe twenty foot

It climbin down. An' as fer that Japan Jan. 14 Jan. 16 an' threw it at the rattler

E/Asia Jan 29 Jan. 31 Feb. und him of leetle ledge an" crevice leadin' of Canada Feb. 11 Feb. 13 below, a little pocket of a ledge, full [scattered all jo' grass an' blossomin' weeds. I

course. an" some of it hit him to the right. well, boys when E/Eussia Feb. 26 Feb. 28 Mar. could let myself drop; an" maybe Whereupon

Mar. 6 Maz. S he coiled himself there's a rattler layin' low fer ye E/Japan.

Max. 20 Mar. 22 Mar, if I had luck, I could stop where like a flash, with head an tail in a crevice, yere goin' to keep Asia

E/Canada Apr 3 Apr. 5 I fell in the pocket.

both lifted, an" rattled indignant-clear o' that crevice.

It wanted a good three hours assis Apr. 17 Apr. 19 Ap. 21 Ap. 28 Apt 25

E/Japan May 1 May 3 "Or, I could stay where I was,ly. There was nothing big en

May 15 May 17 May an be ripped into leetle frayed ough to do him any damage with, an" I knew my chaps wouldn't be E/A

When E/Canada May 29 May 31 ravellins by the bear; an' that an' I wae mighty uneasy lest he missin' me before night. would be in about three seconds, might insist on comin' home to I didn't tam up fer dinner, of /Bussis June 19 June 14 June E/Asia- July 20 July 12 July at the rate he was comin Well I see who his impudent caller was course, they'd begin to suspicion Japan June 28 June 23 let myself over the edge till I jest But I kept on fingin dirt as long something, because they knew IE/Canada July 24 July 25 hung by the fingers, an' then drop-as there was any handy, while was takin" things rather easy, an E/Russia Aug 7 Aug. 9 Aug. ped, smooth as I could, down the be kept on rattlin' madder an'not followin' up any long trails E/Japan Aug. 21 Aug. 23 rock face kind of clutchin' at every madder. Then I stopped, to think It looked like I was there fer the I was night; an' I didn't like it. I tell leetle knob as I went, to check the what I'd better do next. fall-lit-true-in-the-pocket an jest startin' to take off my boot you.

at me.

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I lit pretty hard, but not hard to hit him with as he come along "There wasn't room to lay enough to knock the wits out of the narrow ledge, when sudden down, and if I fell asleep settin me, the grass an' weeds bein' fairy he uncoiled and slipped back up, like as not, I'd roll of the ledge. There was nothin' for it ly soft Some dirt, an' stones into the crevice

“Either it was very hot or I'd but to set up a whoop an a yell come down, kind of smart, on my been a bit more anxions than I'd every once in a while, in hopes head, an' when they'd stopped I

realised, for I felt my forehead that one or other of the boys looked up.-

"There was the bear, his big wet with sweat. I drew my might be cruisin' 'round near ea- to hear me. So I yelled head stack down, with one ugly sleeve across it, all the time keep ough paw hangin' over beside it, starining my eyes gined on the spot some half a dozen times, stop- I was so ticked at havin' where the rattler's disappeared. pin between each yell to listen." Gittin no answer, at last I de-i fooled him. I didn't think o' the Jest then, seemed to me I felt a hole I was in, but sez

breath on the back of my neck. Afcided to save my throat a bit an' to him, sancy as you please: Thou art so kind of cold hill crinkled down my try again after a spell o' restin

backbone, an I turned my hear, an' yet so far. At this he

around, sharp.

**Jest then I turned my "head;} gave a grunt an' disappeared.

"Will you believe it, boys? Ian I forgot, right off, to WOLF was nigh jumpin' straight off that about falling off, the ledge. There out o' the. there ledge right into the land-pokin' his ugly head scape an eternity! There, starin crevice, was the rattler. I chuck- round the wall o' rock, not oneled a bunch of weeds at him, an" mine, was the face o' the bear. inch more than a foot away from he drew back in again. But the thing that jarred me now "was,

"Ye know enough to know you're euchred," says I An' then I turned to considerin' the "place I was in, an' how I was to git out of it. To git out of it, indeed!] The more I considered, the more I wondered how I'd ever managed

face an worryin.”

of

“I feared there was goin' to be

"Well, I was scared. There's how would I keep him off when to stay in it. It wasn't bigger no gittin' 'round that fact. There it got too dark fer me to see him than three foot by two-or two was something 30 onnatural He'd be slippin' home quiet like. 21st Sept and a half, maybe-in width out about that big, wicked face han-thinkin' maybe I was gone, an

from the cliff face...

gin' there over the awful height,mad when he found I wasn't; fer, "On my left, as I sat with my an starin so close to mine.

Ilye see, he hadn't no means back agin' the cliff, a wall o' rock jest naturally scrooged away as knowing that I couldn't go up the 4th Oct ran out straight, closin' off the fer as I could git an hung on rock jest as easy as I come down.

pocket to that side clean an' sharp tight to the rock so's not to go though with a leetle kind of rough- over An' then my face wasn't trouble after dark An' while 1 ness, so to speak-nothin' more more'n two feet away. do the best was fingerin on that till the than a roughness which I calcula-I could; an that was the time sweat came out on my forehead an' there agin ed might do fer me to hang on to found what it felt like to be right agin. I turned' if I wanted to try to climb around down scared.

was the bear's face, starin” ’Tound to the other side

"For maybe thirty seconds we the rock not more'n a foot away. To my right a bit of a ledge jest stared. Then I kind o' got a “You'll understand how my maybe six or eight inches wide holt of myself, an' cursed myself nerves was on the jumps when I ran off along the cliff face for a good fer bein' such a fool, an tell you, boys, that I was scared matter of ten or a dozen feet, my blood got to runnin' agin. I an' startled all over agin, like then slanted up, an" widened out fell to studyin how the hear the first time T'd seen it. With agin' to another little pocket, could have got there an pretty a yell I fetched a swipe at it with how my boot, but it was gone, like a shelf like, of bare rock, about level soon I reckoned it out as with the top of my head. From there must be a big ledge run-shadow, before I hit it; an the this shelf a narrow crack, not more nin' down the cliff face, jest the boot flew out o' my band an' went Sept than two or three inches wide, other side of the wall of the poc-over the cliff-an me pretty nigh after it I jest caught my- kind o zigzagged away till it ket reached the top of the cliff, per- "An I hugged myself, to think self, an hung on, kind o' shaky hape forty feet off.

that I hadn't managed to climb fer a minute.

great Sun, 13th Sept.

"It wasn't much, but it looked 'round onto that ledge jest before Next thing, I heard a like somethin' I could get a good the bear arrived I got this all scratchin" at the other side o' the it took some rock, as if the brute was tryin” Thurs., 19th Sept Angerhold into, if only I could figgered out, an'

work my way along to that leetle time. But still that face hangin' to git a better toe bold an' work Then shelf. I was figurin hard on out there over the height kept some new dodge on me. this, an' had about made up my starin at me; an I never saw a the face appeared agiu, an* may- mind to try it, ant was reachin' wickeder look than it had onto it, be though perhaps that was jest out, in fact, to start when I steady an unwinkin' as a night my excited imagination, it was some two or three inches closer stopped sudden.

"It's curious how long a beast this time. kin look at one without winkin. “I lit out at it with my fist, not At last it got on my nerves, so I havin' my other boot handy. But jest couldn't stand it, an' snat- Lord, a bear kin dodge the sharp chin' a bunch of weeds (I'd al-est boxer. That face jest wasn't ready dung away all the loose there, before I could hit it. Then, dirt, fingin' it at the rattler), I five seconds more, an' it was back whipped 'em across them devlish agin, etariz at me. I wouldn't leetle eyes as hard as I could. It give it the satisfaction o' tryin' was a kind of child's trick, or a to swipe it agin, so I jest kept woman's — but it worked all still, pretendin' to ignore it; an'] right, fer it made the eyes blink in a minute or two it disappeared. two "That proved they were real "But then, a minute or feyes, an I felt easier. After all, more an' it was back agin. An' it was only a bear an he so it went on, disappearin,” com- couldn't get any closer than he in' back goin' away, comin' back, was. But that was a mite too an always-jest when I wasn't ex close, an' I wished he'd move. An pectin' it, an' always sudden en jest then not to be gittin' too quick as a shadow, till that kind easy in my mind, I remembered got on my nerves, too, an I the rattler!

wished he'd stay one

WEY --- OF "Another cold chill down my tother, so as I could know what backbone! I looked round right I was up aglinst

"At last, settlin' down as swall smart. But the rattler wam't anywheres in sight. That, how-as.I could, I made up my mind I ever, put me in mind of what Fdliest wouldn't look that way at been goin' to do to him. A boot all, but give all my attention to wasn't much of a weapon agin a watchin' fer the rattler, an2 yel- bear, but it was the only thing lit fer the boy handy, so I reckoned I'd have to "1-kept that make it do I yanked it off, took hour or more, an it by the toe, sa let that wicked rattler didn't come

the heel of it as hard the boys, I

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