Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick

CHAPTER VI.

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Camp Life.--Winter Evenings.--An Evening in Camp.--Characters.-- Card-playing.--A Song.--Collision with wild Beasts.--The unknown Animal in a Dilemma.--"Indian Devil."--The Aborigines' Terror.--A shocking Encounter.--The Discovery and Pursuit.--The Bear as an Antagonist.--Their thieving Propensities.--A thrilling Scene in the Night.--A desperate Encounter with three Bears 129