item: #1 of 22 id: 11135 author: Seton, Ernest Thompson title: Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac date: None words: 21046 flesch: 88 summary: Ah, a Bear devill--de hell-brute--a Gringo Bear--pardon, my amigo, I mean a very terroar. But the crowd wanted a fight, and Faco, forgetful of his debt to Grizzly Jack, dropped a bundle of Fourth of July crackers into the hogshead by way of the bung. keywords: bear; bonamy; day; dog; feet; fire; gringo; grizzly; hills; honey; horses; hunter; jack; kellyan; lan; man; men; monarch; night; pedro; sheep; smell; time cache: 11135.txt plain text: 11135.txt item: #2 of 22 id: 15276 author: Kelly, Allen title: Bears I Have Met—and Others date: None words: 42328 flesch: 78 summary: But Old Clubfoot is different from other bears. There have been other bears on Pine Mountain, and the San Emigdio flocks have been harassed there regularly, but no such bold marauder as Old Pinto ever struck the range. keywords: bear; bear fight; big; boston; brush; camp; canyon; cubs; day; doctor; feet; fire; foot; good; grizzly; grizzly bear; ground; gun; hand; head; hunters; hunting; left; man; men; monarch; mountain; night; rifle; saw; shot; story; thought; time; tracks; trail; trap; tree; way; yards; years cache: 15276.txt plain text: 15276.txt item: #3 of 22 id: 15528 author: Bailey, Arthur Scott title: The Tale of Cuffy Bear date: None words: 16116 flesch: 95 summary: [Illustration: The Bees Were Right There Waiting for Cuffy] Cuffy Bear must have spent as much as two hours doing that same thing over and over again. When Mr. Bear had gone off down the mountain, to see a bear, as he explained to his wife, little Cuffy sneaked away from the house. keywords: bear; cuffy; cuffy bear; father; home; mother; mrs; silkie; time; tree cache: 15528.txt plain text: 15528.txt item: #4 of 22 id: 19772 author: Denslow, W. W. (William Wallace) title: Denslow's Three Bears date: None words: 1068 flesch: 85 summary: A big bowl for Papa Bear, a medium sized bowl for Mamma Bear, and a little bowl for the Tiny Bear, said Golden Hair. Golden Hair rode upon the broad back of Papa Bear, while Mamma Bear and Tiny walked gaily on either side. keywords: bear; illustration cache: 19772.txt plain text: 19772.txt item: #5 of 22 id: 21398 author: Hawkes, Clarence title: Black Bruin: The Biography of a Bear date: None words: 36791 flesch: 81 summary: Then Black Bruin went up and smelled of their tracks and his good nose told him that they were small bears. The bear hurried in hot pursuit Black Bruin dealt the porcupine a crushing blow Growler sprang at Black Bruin's throat keywords: bear; black; bruin; cub; day; days; dog; farmer; farmhouse; feet; good; half; head; hunter; life; man; master; men; morning; near; new; night; nose; open; pedro; scent; time; trap; tree; way; wild; wind; woods cache: 21398.txt plain text: 21398.txt item: #6 of 22 id: 21691 author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael) title: The Pioneers date: None words: 26399 flesch: 70 summary: In an open space, where a number of trees had been cut down, stood about a dozen skin tents or Indian lodges, some with the curtain-doors closed, others open, exposing the interiors, on the floors of which the dead bodies of Indian men, women, and children, lay in every attitude and in all stages of decomposition. If they know anything at all, they know that white men don't go about in the wilderness empty-handed. keywords: canoe; chief; country; day; english; great; indian; lake; land; lawrence; mackenzie; man; men; natives; north; party; place; red; reuben; river; sea; swiftarrow; time; water; way; white cache: 21691.txt plain text: 21691.txt item: #7 of 22 id: 21734 author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael) title: The Golden Dream: Adventures in the Far West date: None words: 100925 flesch: 76 summary: Few men are so lucky their first day, I assure you, unless, as has been the case once or twice they should hit upon a nugget or two. That being the case, we shall have supper, cried Ned Sinton; and while we are about it, do you go, Larry, to mine host of the hotel, and pay for the dinner for which he gave us credit. Ned Sinton gazed at the scene before him with indescribable amazement! keywords: bill; black; boy; bunting; california; captain; collins; country; course; day; diggings; dollars; door; eyes; face; fact; feet; fire; friend; gold; good; great; half; hand; head; home; hour; jones; know; larry; left; life; little; look; man; men; mind; miners; minutes; moment; ned; ned sinton; new; o'neil; party; place; right; round; shirley; short; spot; stood; time; tom; tree; uncle; voice; water; way; work; yankee; yer cache: 21734.txt plain text: 21734.txt item: #8 of 22 id: 22816 author: Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) title: The Adventures of Buster Bear date: None words: 16892 flesch: 95 summary: The idea of great big Buster Bear getting drowned in the Laughing Brook was too funny. With a roar of anger Buster Bear charged out of his hiding place. keywords: bear; boy; brown; buster; farmer; forest; green; joe cache: 22816.txt plain text: 22816.txt item: #9 of 22 id: 23322 author: Anonymous title: The Three Bears date: None words: 1257 flesch: 99 summary: Young Tiny-cub's bowl, chair, and bed were the best,-- This, big bears and baby bears freely confessed. Said Big Bruin, I'm hungry--to eat, let's begin-- WHO HAS BEEN TO MY PORRIDGE? keywords: bears; cub cache: 23322.txt plain text: 23322.txt item: #10 of 22 id: 23499 author: Reid, Mayne title: The Hunters' Feast: Conversations Around the Camp Fire date: None words: 115548 flesch: 79 summary: It loves the roots of several species of _nymphae_, but its favourite is _calamus_ root (_calamus_ or _acorus aromaticus_). This is discouraging; but at other times he is rewarded for his patient watching. keywords: america; animal; bar; bear; birds; black; body; buffalo; bull; camp; common; companion; coon; course; creatures; dark; day; deer; direction; distance; dog; dogs; eyes; fact; feet; fire; game; good; ground; gun; half; head; horse; hunter; hunting; ike; indians; lay; length; log; man; miles; moment; new; night; party; place; prairie; range; reach; red; rest; rifle; river; set; shot; snow; species; sport; stream; tail; thought; thur; time; tree; war; water; way; white; wild; wolves; woods; wur cache: 23499.txt plain text: 23499.txt item: #11 of 22 id: 27993 author: Reid, Mayne title: Bruin: The Grand Bear Hunt date: None words: 94173 flesch: 71 summary: Of all these designations, that of snow bear appears the most characteristic, since it avoids the risk of a confusion of names--the other titles being equally bestowed upon certain varieties of the _ursus americanus_ and _ursus ferox_. If he be the same species, as naturalists assert, he claims at least to be a permanent variety, and deserves his distinctive appellation of _ursus pyrenaicus_. keywords: alexis; america; animal; bay; bear; black; body; branches; brown; bruin; cave; chapter; colour; country; course; direction; dogs; doubt; eyes; fact; feet; find; forest; fur; grizzly; ground; ground bear; guide; half; head; hole; hunters; ivan; izzard; kind; left; length; little; making; man; moment; mountains; place; pouchskin; purpose; river; set; shot; sloth bear; snow; snow bear; species; surface; time; travellers; tree; ursus; variety; water; way; white; world cache: 27993.txt plain text: 27993.txt item: #12 of 22 id: 28302 author: Paine, Albert Bigelow title: The Arkansaw Bear: A Tale of Fanciful Adventure date: None words: 21725 flesch: 92 summary: Bo was very fond of music, and as Horatio drew from the strings the mellow strains of The Arkansaw Traveller he forgot that both he and the Bear were hungry. And hurray--for--Joe!' When Bo had finished, Horatio stood perfectly still for some moments in astonishment and admiration. keywords: away; bear; bosephus; boy; fiddle; horatio; illustration; man; money; music; night; people; play; time; tree; violin cache: 28302.txt plain text: 28302.txt item: #13 of 22 id: 28671 author: Elwes, Alfred title: The Adventures of a Bear, and a Great Bear Too date: None words: 20381 flesch: 58 summary: Ere that great foe or friend relieved poor Bruin, he had learnt to be repentant of his former life, and was often known to reprove in others any tendency to those faults of temper or disposition which had been his own ruin. With these points of difference, you may believe the _at-home_ of a bear is not quite so agreeable a matter as the at-home of a young gentleman or lady; yet I have no doubt Master Bruin is much more at his ease in it than he would find himself if he were compelled to conform to the usages of human society, and behave as a gentleman ought to do. keywords: air; animal; bear; beast; bruin; caneville; city; eyes; good; ground; half; head; herr; home; master; nose; paw; place; temper; time; tom; way cache: 28671.txt plain text: 28671.txt item: #14 of 22 id: 31414 author: Robinson, Harry Perry title: Bear Brownie: The Life of a Bear date: None words: 28229 flesch: 82 summary: At last the men went into the building, leaving Kahwa alone outside; but other men were continually coming out of, or going into, the open door, and I was afraid to approach her, or even to make any noise to tell her of my presence. I would have persuaded other bears to go with me to range through the buildings, destroying every man that we could find; and though this was impossible, I made up my mind that it would be a bad day for any man whom I might meet alone, when unprotected by the weapon that gave him so great an advantage. keywords: bear; course; day; father; kahwa; man; men; mother; night; stream; time; trees; water; way cache: 31414.txt plain text: 31414.txt item: #15 of 22 id: 38733 author: Lowe, Samuel E. (Samuel Edward) title: Father Bear and Bobby Bear date: None words: 7038 flesch: 98 summary: What about little Bobby Bear all this time? When Father Bear and Bobby Bear reached their cave, Mother Bear was standing waiting for them. keywords: bear; bobby; father; fish; honey cache: 38733.txt plain text: 38733.txt item: #16 of 22 id: 40869 author: Miller, Joaquin title: True Bear Stories date: None words: 42911 flesch: 82 summary: I wanted to fight grizzly bears this time. In his report to the government--1847--he tells of finding a large family of grizzly bears gathering acorns very much as the native Indians gathered them, and this not far from a small Mexican town. keywords: animal; bear; black; boy; boys; brush; california; camp; canyon; day; days; father; feet; fire; good; grizzly; grizzly bear; ground; gun; half; hand; head; indians; left; little; man; men; monarch; mountain; night; nose; oregon; place; river; time; trap; water; way; white; wild; young cache: 40869.txt plain text: 40869.txt item: #17 of 22 id: 45098 author: Whishaw, Frederick title: Boris the Bear-Hunter date: None words: 80229 flesch: 72 summary: The children chattered in English as they rode and told their father all the news--that Katie had caught a young fox at Karapselka, and mother had given little Boris a new pony from England which had run away with him into the forest and upset him into a morass, spraining his ankle, but he was all right now; with other information of a like nature. Get behind me, Katie, said little Boris, I've got my long knife; I'll take care they shan't touch you! keywords: bear; boris; boris ivanitch; charles; city; country; day; days; feet; forest; friend; good; great; ground; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; hunter; left; life; little; majesty; man; master; mazeppa; men; moment; moscow; nancy; new; night; officers; order; peter; place; poor; regiment; russian; sea; story; streltsi; swedish; sword; thought; time; troops; tsar; tsar peter; way; wolf; wolves; work; years; young cache: 45098.txt plain text: 45098.txt item: #18 of 22 id: 46813 author: Whishaw, Frederick title: The Romance of the Woods date: None words: 65029 flesch: 70 summary: Among these, according to Slavonic folk-lore, were the _vodyánnuie_, or water-spirits; the _vozdúshnuie_, or spirits of the air; and the _liéshuie_, or wood-demons. Radion performed his work with perfect success, and brought his herd home safely, in spite of the danger to be apprehended from _liéshuie_ and their chosen agents for destruction, the wolves and bears. keywords: bear; creature; day; days; end; family; fire; fish; forest; good; half; hand; head; home; hour; house; human; ivan; jemmie; land; left; life; look; man; matter; moment; mother; night; order; pastuch; place; poor; radion; river; russian; soul; sound; spirits; starost; stick; tatiana; thing; time; vainka; village; water; way; wolves; woman; znaharka cache: 46813.txt plain text: 46813.txt item: #19 of 22 id: 4704 author: Curwood, James Oliver title: Nomads of the North: A Story of Romance and Adventure under the Open Stars date: None words: 66218 flesch: 88 summary: At last Miki could almost reach out with his forepaws and touch him. From the edge of a dense clump of spruce Miki flung back a defiant howl. keywords: bear; beau; black; blood; body; cabin; challoner; day; dog; durant; edge; end; eyes; face; feet; fire; forest; gone; half; head; le beau; life; little; man; miki; moment; mother; nanette; neewa; night; noozak; saw; snow; sun; thing; time; way; wolf; world cache: 4704.txt plain text: 4704.txt item: #20 of 22 id: 55583 author: Robinson, Harry Perry title: The Life Story of a Black Bear date: None words: 47105 flesch: 81 summary: At last the men went into the building, leaving Kahwa alone outside; but other men were continually coming out of, or going into, the open door, and I was afraid to approach her, or even to make any noise to tell her of my presence. As it was, we sat about for a while looking at him, and waiting to see if he would come down again; but he showed no intention of doing that, and, as we did not know how soon other men might come, we left him and went on our way. keywords: bear; course; day; days; father; good; kahwa; little; man; men; mother; night; place; round; stream; time; trees; water; way; wooffa cache: 55583.txt plain text: 55583.txt item: #21 of 22 id: 60209 author: Wilbur, Curtis Dwight title: The Bear Family at Home, and How the Circus Came to Visit Them date: None words: 36195 flesch: 90 summary: When the big brown bear heard them come in, he jumped up quickly and looked at little Cub Bear, and little Cub Bear looked at him. When this story about the Little-Cub-Bear-that-would-not-mind-his-papa was finished, _our_ little Cub Bear, who lived away up in the cave in the mountain, said, I should think that every little bear ought to mind his papa and do just as he says, else they might get drowned, you know. keywords: animals; cave; circus bear; cub bear; foot; papa bear; saw; story; time; water; way cache: 60209.txt plain text: 60209.txt item: #22 of 22 id: 7764 author: Fox, Frances Margaret title: Little Bear at Work and at Play date: None words: 9063 flesch: 90 summary: ] He must be joking, observed Mother Bear quickly, because she was afraid that Father Bear would toss Little Bear into the river, and she did not like the idea. After Little Bear was cuddled down in his bed of leaves and springy boughs, Mother Bear made Father Bear promise not to toss Little Bear into the river unless Little Bear said he wanted him to. keywords: bear; children; father; home; little; mother; mother bear; otter cache: 7764.txt plain text: 7764.txt