Identifier: crockettalmanacc1852croc (find matches)
Title: The Crockett almanac : containing sprees and scrapes in the West; life and manners in the backwoods, and exploits and adventures on the praries
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Crockett, Davy, 1786-1836
Subjects: Crockett, Davy, 1786-1836 Almanacs, American American wit and humor
Publisher: Boston : J. Fisher
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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nd fixed both teeth and fore-paws into his cap, which fortunately slipped off, and once more disengagedhim. Up came Bruin for another hug, while Bill boxed him right and leftwith the butt of his gun, until it broke short off by the lock, and left themonce more to tug for it. paw to paw. Bills only hope of victory nowrested in his knife, which he found great difiieulty in getting his handupon, so i^uriously did the animal press upon him. At last, with a mostdesperate kick, he managed to push the brute a little back, and draw outhis knife, and, as he advanced upon him, he plunged it into his breast; headvanced again more fiercely, and growled like thunder, but Bill, havingdrawn forth his blade, gave him another lunge, a!t which the animal re-treated to the tree, while the Indian coming up with another gun, theyadvanced, and, after a brief skirmish, placed the inanimate monster Bruinin their boat, for a mornings meal for the Band. TWO MEN ATTACKED BY WOLVES WHILE SKATING ONFEATHER RIVER.
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• A arosT fearful incident in California life is thus detailed by a recentadventurer to his brother in New England : In the severe winter of 1851, says the narrator, myself and a com-panion, finding all other routes obstructed by a heavy snow, put on ourskates, and started down Feather river, on a rough, rocky bed of ice. Firand hemlock of a centurys growth, met overhead, and formed an arch\vayradiant wjth frostwork. All was dark within; but I was young and fear-less, and, as I peered into an unbroken forest that reared itself on the bor-ders of a stream, I laughed with very joyousness. Suddenly a sound arose,it seemed to me to come from beneath the ice; it sounded low and tremu-lous at first, until it ended in one wild yell. Turning my head to the shore,^ ?«vv two c...rk objects dashing through the brushwood jit a speed nearly:^oi>b!e my o ./n. By this rapidity, and the short yells which they qccasion-ni!/ t.-.ve, T : new that these were the mucliTdreaded grey wolf I dashedv. .

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