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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416025" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Fight With A Bear</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The following appeared in Truth in the form of a prose tale of<br>considerable length. We have concentrated the essence<br>thereof into the few verses below. It is a tale of the<br>Canadian North-West, during the times of the Hudson<br>Bay Company's rule.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Two youths, employed at the fur fort,<br>Resolved to have half-day of sport ;<br>From Jasper House, in the far north,<br>For game, they joyous issued forth.<br>The factor of the Hudson Bay<br>Granted them a few hours' play,<br>And it was in cold winter time,<br>When thick on lake was glassy rime ;<br>But beneath, o'er all their route,<br>They saw below big speckled trout.<br>With hatchet, ice they did clear<br>And the beauteous trout did spear,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For they were longing for a dish<br>Of this sweet and savory fish,<br>And they caught many, too, with bait,<br>For in the day it was not late,<br>But it was cloudy with snow storm ;<br>Yet they saw the noble form,<br>While the hurricane did blow,<br>Of a fine, noble buffalo,<br>So they resolved to have a treat<br>Of the delicious buffalo meat ;<br>But he did on his haunches rear-<br>To their surprise it was a bear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The lake being smooth, the youths did skate,<br>Resolved for to seal his fate;<br>A pistol shot made bruin roar,<br>And from him trickled drops of gore.<br>They round him skate, and fresh blood drew<br>When they at him the hatchet threw ;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He chased one and then the other,<br>For men on skates did him bother.<br>But the bold Scottish lad, McBeath,<br>Alas ! he nearly met his death,<br>When he so boldly did press near<br>To probe him with the sharp fish spear,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For with fell swoop the paws of bruin<br>To him they almost did bring ruin ;<br>But he so dexterously did skate<br>That he escaped such horrid fate.<br>And now they skated back to fort<br>For aid for to renew the sport,<br>They knew their game was no trifle<br>So they secured a trusty rifle.<br>Returning he had fled to wood,<br>But they tracked him with his blood,<br>For they did not yet despair<br>But that they would capture bear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They saw the elder bushes sway<br>While he did force through them his way,<br>And heard the brushwood loudly snap,<br>Where he went through he left a gap.<br>They skated swiftly o 'er the ice<br>And were near brushwood in a trice ;<br>Full soon the savage beast is slain,<br>With rifle bullet in his brain.<br>And now these hunters do take pride<br>In skin as large as buffalo hide,<br>For Indian stripped the skin of bear<br>And left the carcass in his lair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+McIntyre">James McIntyre</a><div class=q>
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