Part 17 (1/1)
”Aren't we having the darndest luck getting you a cub for a house-pet, Nanette?” he asked ”I'd have sworn this ht A he-bear! We'll have to let hi Do you want to go with us and see the fun, Nanette?”
She nodded, her little laugh filled with the joy of love and life
”Oui It will be such fun--to see hio!”
Challoner led the ith an axe in his hand; and with hi folloith his rifle, prepared for an eency From the thick screen of balsah which Nanette e and its prisoner For aback and forth, very ave a little cry, and Challoner felt her fingers pinch his own sharply Before he knehat she was about to do she had thrust herself through the screen of balsa prison, faithful to his comrade in the hour of peril, lay Miki He was exhausted fro, and he had not s of the presence of others until he saw Nanette standing not twenty paces away His heart leapt up into his panting throat He sed, as though to get rid of a great lu whine, he sprang toward her With a yell Challoner leapt out of the balsams with uplifted axe But before the axe could fall, Miki was in Nanette's arasp of a on in stupid astonishreat fuss over a strange and wild-looking beast that looked as if it ought to be killed They had forgotten the bear And Miki, wildly joyous at finding his beloved ious WHOOF froht their attention to hi of Neewa's snout between two of the logs, and with a great wagging of tail trying to make hiht born in his head thatblack brute in the pen, Challoner approached the trap
Was it possible that Miki could have o? He drew in a deep breath as he looked at thes and MIKI WAS LICKING IT WITH HIS TONGUE! He held out a hand to Nanette, and when she ca
Then he said:
”It is the cub, Nanette You know--the cub I have told you about
They've stuck together all this tio, and tied theether on a piece of rope I understand nohy Miki ran away from us ere at the cabin He went back--to the bear”
To-day if you strike northward from Le Pas and put your canoe in the Rat River or Grassberry ays, and thence paddle and run with the current down the Reindeer River and along the east shore of Reindeer Lake you will ultimately come to the Cochrane--and Post Lac Bain It is one of the most wonderful countries in all the northland Three hundred Indians, breeds and French, co them--man, woman, or child--but knows the story of the ”tael, the Factor's wife
The bear wears a shi+ning collar and roarown huge and fat now, never wanders far from the Post And it is an unwritten law in all that country that the animal must not be harmed, and that no bear traps shall be set within five s Beyond that lioes into his long sleep, he crawls into a deep war for hihts co
THE END