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her to pieces. But now it never oc
curred to him to be enraged. The mat
ter was quite impersonal, lie only
realized that something on his back
was hurting him, and he wanted to get
rid of it. Throwing himself down lie
rolled over in the water, burying the
cat in the ooze.
When he got up again, Ids objection
able burden was gone. But lie was
dissatisfied with his place in the bo
gan. The water was not deep enough
to suit him. And moreover, he felt
like a rat in a corner. He wanted
more space, more air — more view,
even if there were nothing but horrors
for the view to reveal. Shouldering
aside a couple of red bucks, who hard
ly noticed him with their great, soft
eyes of "terror, he waded out to the
entrance of the bogan. Here, where
he ! could feel the pull of the eddy try
ing to drag him out into the rapids,
he took his place in a depth of water
that came about his shoulders. An un
gainly cow-moose stood close beside
him, flapping her big ears despondent
ly, and staring, not at the flames, but
at the discolored waves and whipped
foam racing by.
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leisurely a big brown otter. Lifting
head and shoulders high above the sur
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surveyed the rapids, and then plunged
straight into them, heading fearlessly
down stream. He had evidently made
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would the little bogan serve for a ref
uge. The bear eyed his departure wist
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heart to dare the lashed waves and
roaring ledges.
But by this time, the roar of the
ledges was unheard for the wide, rav
ening tumult of the flames. As they
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smoke clouds themselves found voice
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that some of the beasts, with fur sud
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off into the furnace; while others sim
ply toppled into the water and were
drowned forthwith. The beasts who
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deeply into it as they could, and shud
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the edges of the bogan and investi
gating it, found at last a hollow under
the bank, with drenched roots screen
ing the entrance. This admirable lit
tle retreat; was already packed with
muskrats and a few mink; but he
crowded himself in without ceremony,
thrusting others out to shift for them
selves. And, as the dim annals of his
race record that he lived to hunt hare
and partridge in later.years about the
scarred stumps of the man's abandoned
clearing, it is evident that the retreat
proved a safe one..
The bear, meanwhile, as the fiery
doom closed in upon him, began to
tremble. Except for the wise fox, he
was the only beast in all that wretched
company with intelligence enough to
think and to realize the full horrors of
his fate. There was no hole under
the bank big enough to shelter his huge
bulk. He whimpered miserably, and
turned his eyes with longing down the
wild channel by which the other had
fled. But he could not dare the path.
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And already it was but a seething,
darkened avenue of violence between
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And the bogan, too, was now a place
of horrors. Its surface was covered
with the survivors of the smaller
beasts, a wild-cat or two, innumerable
squirrels, with weasels, martens, wood
chucks, mice, raccoons, and even a few
hares whom the hour of supreme de
spair had taught to swim. The rest
were dead. Several of the deer, too,
had gone under in the bedlam struggle
that now milled blindly in the center
of the pool. Besides the bear, only the
somber and stoic moose held themselves
aloof from »that fatal vortex, lying
down in the water, and lifting their
muzzles from time to time to draw a
scorching and suffocating breath.
Suddenly, chancing to turn his de
spairing eyes up stream, the bear saw
a wild shape dashing downward to
ward him through the spray . and
smoke. In another moment he rec
ognized it. It was the man, crouched
low in the stern of his log canoe, and
steering it, with frantic paddle, be
tween the rocks and .leaping surges.
He had a blanket partly twisted about
his head, and one corner of it, stream
ing out behind him. smoked and
smoldered. He headed the canoe into
the bogan, and just saved himself from
upsetting as he ran slantingly against
the submerged back of one of the
moose. He came to a stop within arm's
length of the bear —-and the latter saw
that he was curiously changed in ap
pearance. His great sinewy hands and
gaunt face were blackened and drawn
and his eyes stared terribly from sock
ets whence eyebrows and lashes had
been scorched away. Nevertheless, to
the bear his coming brought a sense of
security. Here, he felt, was a master
spirit, such as even the monsters of the
fire would not overcome. He whined
and drew nearer to the canoe, a dim
hope rising in his heart. The man no
ticed him, and even in that moment of
desperation recognized him, with a dis
torted grin, as the antagonist who had
so long eluded his snares.
"The both of us has got it in the
neck this time, old Pard, I reckon!" he
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blanket and hurriedly sopping it over
the side of the c^noe. Then, swinging
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As a matter of fact, the bear was a
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himself; but he was rolled clean over,
and shot from the lip of a perpendicu
lar ledge into the churning caldron be
low.
Fortunately for him, the caldron was
deep enough to break the direct thrust
of the torrent, and he was held in a
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