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The boys had talked bear for a long time -- in fact ever since they had heard of two other boys of the settlement bringing in a pair of cubs they had found in a hollow tree in the forest. They had not said much in Mrs. Parsons' presence, but they had told the girls that they meant to get a bear, big or little, before the winter was over.
At the fort they had fallen in with a French-English trapper named Marquette. Marquette was a happy-go-lucky fellow who loved hunting and fishing better than he did eating and sleeping. He was on good terms with everybody, and all of the pioneers thought a good deal of him.