But salts of ammonia, held to the nostrils of the other one, produced an unexpected result.

The creature struck out spasmodically with one paw and rolled suddenly over.

Doctor Truman jumped out of the sty quite as suddenly.
"He's alive, all right," said the doctor.
The bears were not disturbed again, and remained there so quietly that we nearly forgot them.

It was now the second week of March, and up to this time the weather had continued cold; but a thaw set in, with rain for two or three days, the temperature rising to sixty degrees, and even higher.
On the third night of the thaw, or rather, in the early morning, a great commotion broke out at the west barn.

It waked the girls first, their room being on that side of the farmhouse.