The hill was covered with beech trees, and he'd been living all the fall on the nuts, till he'd got as fat as butter.

We took dogs and worried him, and ran him from one place to another, and shot at him, till at last he dropped.

We took his meat home, and had his skin tanned for a sleigh robe.
"One day I was in the woods, and looking through the trees espied a bear.

He was standing up on his hind legs, snuffing in every direction, and just about the time I espied him, he espied me.

I had no dog and no gun, so I thought I had better be getting home to my dinner.