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-af ss " Have my doubts ;''' suggested the son- nify of a man who knows his situation; at the same time sbakiHg his head and spill fling his liquor.

 :" Ha ha Ina! Ha l! ha ha !" roared all the rest of the boys together.

 "Is he done T. asked Raynor Rock.

 'tEiow many shirks was there !,.'. cried Long John, putting in bis unusual lingual oar.

 :" That story puts mo in tniadt" said Ne- nus Raynor, .. abouf what I've heerd tell of Ebenezer Smith at the time he went down to the north pole on a walen'Soyage."

 Now look out for a screaEner," laughed out Raynor Rock, refiiling his pipc.- t"Stand by, Mir. Cypress to let the sheet Egn.'f s srs-.sss ss ',,sss.> sss.ssss

 "Is there my thing uncommon abont that yarn, Venus 3'' --

 Oncommon! well, expect it's putty smart and oncommon for man to go to sea with bear, ali alone, on bare cake of ice. Capiin Smiths woman used to say she couldn't bear to think on" ]" " ,'' "Tell us the whole of that, Venus," said Ned ;-" that is if it's true. Mine was the whole of it,--although Peter has hs doubts" ..a

 "I can. tell it as we'll as Zoph can, but I've no 'jections to tell it my way, 20 how. So here goes-that's great brandy, Mir. Cypress" There was a gafgling sound of :" something-to takc," running.

 "Well, they was down into Baffn's Bay, or some other O them cold Morwegen bays at the North, where the rain freezes us 1t comes down, and stands ID in the air. on winter rAorncns, iike great mountains o'ice, all in streaks. We'll, the schooner was layen at anchor, and all the hands was out into the small boats, iooken for wales ;-- all except the captin, who said he want very we'll that day. We'll. he was walken up and down on deck, smoken and ,hinken. expect, mostly, when all of sudden he reckoned he sec one O thcmbig white bears !--polar bears, you lsiiow-big as thunder with long teeth. He reckuned he see one on lem sclumpen along on great cake o' ice, that lay on the leeward side Of the bay, up agin the bank. The old cap. want ed i0 kill one o' them; varmints most won- derfaI, but he never tucked to get chance. Now. the, h6 thought, the time had come for him to walk into one on 'eua at last, and fix his mu,ten for him right. So he run iorrad and lay hold onto . small skiff, that was layen near the 'fore'stal, and run her out and tauneased ases..~. sGAail he lul< n drink, and here's lnck--and put in a stif load of powder, and couple of balls, and jumped in, and pulled away for the ice.

 "Is wa'n't long fore he got 'cross the bay, for 1t was i,nrrer piece Q water not more than half mile wide-and then he got out on to the ice. 1t was smart and large cake, and the bear was 'way down to the to,hcr end on it, by the edge o' the water. So, he walked first strut a. long, and then when he got putty cloast he walked 'round ca,ecorned-like,-fike's if he was driven from plain plover-so that the bear wouldn't think he was comen ar- ter him, aud he dragged himself along on his hands and knees, low down, mostly We'll, the bear didn't seem to mind him none, and he got up within about fifty yards on him, and then he looked so savage and big--the bear did-.hat the captin stopped, and rested on his knees, and put up his gun, and he was goinio shoot. But just then the boar turned round and snufled up the captain--just as one of Lif's hounds snuGs up an old buck, Mr. Cypress--and began l to walk towards him. slowly like. He come along, the cap,in said, clump, clump, very slow, and made the ice bend and crack a. gin under bim, so that the water cone up and putty much kivered it all over. Well, there thc captain was all the time squat on his knees, with his gun -pinted, waiten for l the varment tolcoGne up, and his knees and legs was most mighty cold by means of the water-that the bear riz4 on the ice as I was mentionen. At hast the bear seemed to make np his mind fo see bow the csptin WOULD taste. and so he left of walken slow, and started off on smart snd swift trot, right towards tho old man. wish his mouth wide open, roaren, and his tsil sticked out stiff. The cap.in kept stills lookeu out all the time putty sharp, | Ishould say, tilr the beast got within about len yards on him, and then he let him have 1t. He aimed right at the feshy part of his heart. but tIis bear dodged at the fash, and rared mp. and the balls went into his iwO hind legs, is, by the iyni. one into each, and broke ihe ! thigh bones smack o6. so that he went riehf down aft, on the ice, thump, oa his hind quarters, with nothen ssanden bat his fore legs and his head rig uP, growleR at the captin. When the old man sec I.;m down, and tsyen to slide along the ice to get his revenge, likely, thinks heao himself. thinks he. might as well get up and go and cut