CHAPTER NINETEEN.
JERKING A BEAR.
All three--old bear and cubs--now lay stretched along the grass dead as may be.

A rare-looking trio they were.

The old one could not have weighed less than five hundred pounds.

Her long, rough coat was of a fawn, or cinnamon colour, while the cubs were of a uniform black.

This, however, is quite a common thing; and, what is still more singular, the cubs of the black bear are often seen of a reddish or cinnamon colour, while the mother herself is pure black.