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Boris the Bear Hunter
Boris the Bear Hunter
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CONTENTS
I. The Hunter Hunted 9
II. Boris Finds a New Friend 17
III. Boris Changes Masters 25
IV. Boris Goes A-sailing 34
V. How Peter the Great was knocked over 46
VI. A Taste of the Knout 56
VII. A Race for Life 70
VIII. Boris and his Fellow-Officers 84
IX. One Sword against Five 96
X. A Night Ambush 108
XI. A Battle against Odds 120
XII. A Perilous Slide 132
XIII. Boris Goes on the War-path 144
XIV. Taken Prisoner 155
XV. An Exciting Escape 167
XVI. Home Again 181
XVII. Off to England 193
XVIII. How Boris threw a Big Dutchman Overboard 204
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XIX. Bad News from Moscow 215
XX. Boris in Disgrace 228
XXI. Nancy and the Big Bear 243
XXII. A Wolf Maiden 253
XXIII. A Notable Day among the Wolves 266
XXIV. With the Tsar Again 278
XXV. Boris has a Narrow Escape 290
XXVI. How Boris Outwitted the Swedish Admiral 303
XXVII. Small Beginnings of a Great City 315
XXVIII. How the Swedes Erected a Gibbet for Boris 326
XXIX. Mazeppa 340
XXX. Russia's Great Day 353
XXXI. Peace at Last 366
CHAPTER I.
THE HUNTER HUNTED.
The moment at which I propose to introduce my readers to Boris the Bear-Hunter came very near, as it happened, to being the last which my hero was destined to spend upon this earth. Great hunter as Boris was, there is no doubt about it that on this particular occasion he met his match, and came within measurable distance of defeat at the hands—or rather paws—of one of the very creatures whose overthrow was at once his profession and his glory.
It happened many a year ago—about two hundred, in fact; and the scene of Boris's adventure was an exceedingly remote one, far away in the north of Europe, close to Archangel.
Boris Ivanitch was a peasant whose home was an outlying village near the large town just mentioned. He was a serf, of course, as were all his fellows at that time; but in consequence of his wonderful strength and courage, and of his aptitude for pursuing and killing every kind of wild beast and game, he was exempt, by favour of his lord, both from taxation and from the manual labour which the owner of the soil could have exacted from him. In a word, Boris was employed to keep the country clear, or as clear as possible, of bears and wolves, which, when left to themselves, were at that time the cause of much danger and loss to the inhabitants of that portion of the Russian empire.
I. The Hunter Hunted 9
II. Boris Finds a New Friend 17
III. Boris Changes Masters 25
IV. Boris Goes A-sailing 34
V. How Peter the Great was knocked over 46
VI. A Taste of the Knout 56
VII. A Race for Life 70
VIII. Boris and his Fellow-Officers 84
IX. One Sword against Five 96
X. A Night Ambush 108
XI. A Battle against Odds 120
XII. A Perilous Slide 132
XIII. Boris Goes on the War-path 144
XIV. Taken Prisoner 155
XV. An Exciting Escape 167
XVI. Home Again 181
XVII. Off to England 193
XVIII. How Boris threw a Big Dutchman Overboard 204
[6]
XIX. Bad News from Moscow 215
XX. Boris in Disgrace 228
XXI. Nancy and the Big Bear 243
XXII. A Wolf Maiden 253
XXIII. A Notable Day among the Wolves 266
XXIV. With the Tsar Again 278
XXV. Boris has a Narrow Escape 290
XXVI. How Boris Outwitted the Swedish Admiral 303
XXVII. Small Beginnings of a Great City 315
XXVIII. How the Swedes Erected a Gibbet for Boris 326
XXIX. Mazeppa 340
XXX. Russia's Great Day 353
XXXI. Peace at Last 366
CHAPTER I.
THE HUNTER HUNTED.
The moment at which I propose to introduce my readers to Boris the Bear-Hunter came very near, as it happened, to being the last which my hero was destined to spend upon this earth. Great hunter as Boris was, there is no doubt about it that on this particular occasion he met his match, and came within measurable distance of defeat at the hands—or rather paws—of one of the very creatures whose overthrow was at once his profession and his glory.
It happened many a year ago—about two hundred, in fact; and the scene of Boris's adventure was an exceedingly remote one, far away in the north of Europe, close to Archangel.
Boris Ivanitch was a peasant whose home was an outlying village near the large town just mentioned. He was a serf, of course, as were all his fellows at that time; but in consequence of his wonderful strength and courage, and of his aptitude for pursuing and killing every kind of wild beast and game, he was exempt, by favour of his lord, both from taxation and from the manual labour which the owner of the soil could have exacted from him. In a word, Boris was employed to keep the country clear, or as clear as possible, of bears and wolves, which, when left to themselves, were at that time the cause of much danger and loss to the inhabitants of that portion of the Russian empire.
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