He heard me, and cried out, “No shoot, no shoot; stand still, and you get much laugh:” and as the nimble creature ran two feet for the bear’s one, he turned on a sudden on one side of us, and seeing a great oak-tree fit for his purpose, he beckoned to us to follow; and doubling his pace, he got nimbly up the tree, laying his gun down upon the ground, at about five or six yards from the bottom of the tree.
Indi l’agil gagliardo che nel correre faceva due passi per ognuno dell’orso, prende in un subito una volta di fianco e adocchiata una bella quercia atta al suo scopo, ne fa cenno di tenergli dietro; poi raddoppiando il passo giunge al piede dell’albero. Quivi, posato a terra pacatamente il suo moschetto, vi monta su ad un’altezza di cinque o sei braccia.