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strangers at her home, quickly shoved her Canoe into the water and was crossing with all speed, when to her surprise, her Paddle broke. The Pike by this time had made a small hole in the Bag and to the unspeakable joy of our adventurers, out flies the sun. The appearance of which disconserted the Bear entirely, she made the Earth tremble with her howlings, but finding that she could not make way without the Paddle, she thrust herself into the water and made the best speed she could by means of her paws. After all her roarings and exertions, she reflected that revenge was now out of her power, as the Adventurers were fled and her power With the sun was now expiring – that she might not be deprived of the sun's influence (while yet she had some power over him) in her turn was prudent enough before it was too late to command the sun to show himself to all the Earth that every one might enjoy his powerful influence. Let us now return to our exalting adventurers, who soon afterwards found themselves plunged into the other extreme. They had not proceeded many days upon their return, when they were threatened with a Deluge, arising from the impression, that the heat of the sun

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