Excerpt: ...as two hours after they had stopped to eat their lunch when without warning the swamp explorers met with a surprise that gave them a new thrill. At the time, Lil Artha happened to have passed a little in the lead, though he would soon be dropping back again, especially when there came a chance to make a mistake in direction, for he wanted Elmer to decide such puzzles. The tall scout must have forgotten his warning from Elmer, for he cried out: "Hey! everybody look what we're up against! A bear, Elmer, that's ...
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Excerpt: ...as two hours after they had stopped to eat their lunch when without warning the swamp explorers met with a surprise that gave them a new thrill. At the time, Lil Artha happened to have passed a little in the lead, though he would soon be dropping back again, especially when there came a chance to make a mistake in direction, for he wanted Elmer to decide such puzzles. The tall scout must have forgotten his warning from Elmer, for he cried out: "Hey! everybody look what we're up against! A bear, Elmer, that's what it is!" CHAPTER IX THE PERILS OF THE WATER LABYRINTH "Silence, everybody!" hissed Elmer, who knew it would be just like Toby, and perhaps some of the other fellows, to burst into a shout as soon as they could get command of their voices. It was certainly a bear, a small one to be sure, but genuine enough, and not such as can be seen with wandering foreigners, taught to dance, or wield a pole as a soldier would his musket. Just when the scouts glimpsed the hairy denizen of Sassafras Swamp, he was engaged in sitting on his haunches and gathering in the bushes with his sturdy forelegs. To Lil Artha, it looked as though Bruin might be making a lunch from the luscious, big blueberries that grew in such abundance here and there through the swamp. Up to the moment when Lil Artha thus called attention to the presence of the black native, the bear must have been in ignorance of their being so near at hand. When he did notice them, he simply gave a disgusted grunt, and ambled away through the brush. Lil Artha always declared the bear glanced back at them as he ran, and even put out his tongue, just as if he knew it was the close season, and that a kind game law protected him from all harm. "Say, let me tell you this old Sassy swamp isn't such a bad place for a game preserve after all," said Toby; "I think some of us could enjoy having a week up here, after the law on bears and all such was up. But it's too far from home during the school session, ...
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