It continued trotting a short way, and then sprang gracefully aside among the trees, leaving no scent on the leaves by which the most highly trained hound could trace it.
A little way beyond they came upon the largest stream seen since leaving the mountains east of the Susquehanna.

It was a dozen feet in width, quite deep, rapid, and clear.
"Here is enough drink for us all," said Ben, and they proceeded to help themselves in the primitive fashion described elsewhere.
"That must contain fish," observed the mother; "but we are without the means of catching them." "Unless Linna will jump in and haul them out for us.

But if we are to continue our journey, we must find some way of getting to the other side; it is too deep and wide to ford or jump." "It must be narrower in other places." "Oh! look mamma!" It was Alice who first saw a terrifying sight.

An immense black bear, the largest any of the party had ever seen, swung from among the trees and came to the water's edge on the other side.
He was so enormous that all started and recoiled a step, even Linna uttering an exclamation in her own tongue.

Ben grasped his rifle, and held it ready to use the instant it became necessary.
But Bruin was in a gracious mood that morning.