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Excerpt from Sporting Sketches In the North the spring comes in a day. For four long months the white paw of the Arctic bear holds everything in icy clutch. The tread of it flattens all minor growths, the iron claws of it hook into vale and ravine, and at their touch the singing waters cease their foamy play and chill and stiffen in the coldness of a deathlike trance. On stream and pond flashes the crystal breastplate of the Frost King's service. To them comes the Captain Bear. "Sleep" is the monarch's order, which the captain must enforce; so he travels far and wide, treading with creaking weight on snowy feet. 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.