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Show BEAR TOOK CARE OF HER. Little Child Carried Off by Animal and Put to Bed. An extraordinary but apparently well-authenticated story of a bear's freak comes from a Russian village in tho district of Odoft. Tho village lies on tho fringe of a forest, whence It la of frequent occurrence for bears to make prowling excursions both by day and night into tho adjacent settlements. settle-ments. Some two weeks ago two young girls, aged respectively 5 and 13, were surprised by a huge bear at a short dlstanco from tbo village. The animal seized and carried off tho younger child, while tho elder, terror-stricken, terror-stricken, fled homo and gavo tho not unusual nlarm. An Immediate pursuit was Instituted and tho search was continued during tho evening and tho next day, but without result. On tho th'rd day, with tho nssl&tanco of neighboring villagers, villag-ers, a wldo cordon was drawn around an oxtcnslvo tract of the forost, and tho searchers closed in. Toward sundown sun-down tho bear and her booty wero discovered In a dense thicket. The child was perfectly unharmed, says tho London Mall, and reclining In a deep mossy couch mado for bor by tho boar. |