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 ferent looking creature from the Indian of the lodge.

On one occasion Indian Wholiky in the wood and heavy underbrush of the Nehalem Mountains crept up so close to a black bear that only the thickness of a tree separated them. Poor bruin was astonished and dead in the same moment. The black bear in his chosen habitat of thick brush is one of the most unapproachable of animals by stalking, and poor bruin had a right to be astonished. 31