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Excerpt from Sporting Sketches Under the ice lie the trout, waiting, listening for the tread of the bear which they know will surely come. When the light above fails and the ice batteries boom, they feel his presence, and turning noses to the failing stream, they bide the issue. To them come mink and otter. Only these two can outwit the bear. They know certain unfilled rivet holes in the icy armor and its occasional aws. Through these they slide to harry the helpless quarry. But the bear has orders to obey. His business is to see that the Law of the North is heeded. When the rallied forces of the South again rush northward, he must Slowly fall back, disputing every league of field until the last furious charge drives him to the berg-piled, impregnable stronghold of his king. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.