[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] It is at the present hour.--Never was a subject more ripe for illust

[Degidio Uhm]

Considerable caution in the conflict. They had good reason: since before their eyes was an example of what they might expect, if they came to _very_ close quarters. Upon the ground over which
the fight had been raging, three
or four of their number were
seen lying apparently dead--while others were limping around, or sneaked off with
whining cries, licking the
wounds they had received from the long claws of their powerful adversary.
It was rather an odd circumstance for the wolves to have thus attacked a polar bear--an antagonist of which they stand in the utmost dread. The thing, however, was explained by one of the voyageurs; who
said that the bear in question was a weak one--half-famished, perhaps, and feeble from having suckled her young; and it was the cubs, and not the old bear herself, that the wolves were
after--thinking to separate
these from their mother, and so destroy and devour them.

Perhaps one of them had been eaten up already: since only one could be seen; and there are always two cubs in a litter.

Our young hunters did not think of staying longer to watch the strange encounter. Their sole idea was to get possession of the
bear and her cub; and with this intent they ordered the
voyageurs to paddle close
up to the shore and land them. As soon as the canoe touched the bank, both leaped out; and,
followed by Pouchskin, proceeded towards the scene of the conflict,--the
voyageurs remaining in the canoe. CHAPTER FORTY FIVE. A WHOLE FAMILY CAPTURED. The party had not
gone more than a dozen steps from the water's edge, when a new object coming under their eyes caused them to halt. This was another quadruped that at that moment was seen dashing out from the willows,
and rushing onward towards the scene of the strife. There was no mistaking the character of the creature. Our 
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