The Great Bear never rests until his work is done, and he is so marvelous with the rifle that it was not necessary for him to rise when he fired.

Wilderness life demands so much of the body that the Great Bear never makes needless exertion.

There mind works, Dagaeoga, but the rest is all eye.

The squirrel was on the curved bough of the oak, the one that projects toward the north." "You assume a good deal to say that it was a squirrel and surely mind not eye would select the particular bough on which he sat." "No, Dagaeoga, eye served the whole purpose.

All the other branches are almost smothered in leaves, but the curved one is nearly bare.