This delay on the part of the beast enabled Morton to get close to it, just as the crea tfure, having by its violent motions caused the spear to drop from its side, was again advancing tov ard the girl. Picking up the instrument the young offi cer was raising it to drive it deep into the body of the bear, when the latter, with a powerful stroke of its paw, daßhed the weapen downward ; then, rising on its hind feet, the savage beast quickly clasped the waist of its antagonist, and opened its jaws to fasten its fangs in his throat.
But, drawing baok the spear, the young man drove it with great foroe down the brute’s gullet, and, ere the creature’s teeth could close upon the pole to stop its course, the point of the spear had entered its heart, when, dropping with a thud upon its side, the animal soon gave up its breath. ‘•You save my life I” gratefully oried the Norway girl to Morton, in her broken English.
