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Animal Life in the North Sea

131 rus of nine or ten feet in length, rose in water, in case of a nearer acquaintance a pool of water, and, after looking around, with his playful but treacherous visitor, drew his greasy carcase upon the ice, on which the Bear was instantly motionwhere he rolled about for a time, and at less, as if in the act of sleep; but, after a length, laid himself down to sleep. A time, began to lick his paws, and clean Bear, which had probably been observing himself, and occasionally to encroach a lithis movements, crawled carefully upon tle more upon his intended prey. But even the ice, on the opposite side of the pool, this artifice did not succeed. The wary and began to roll about also, but ap- walrus was far too cunning to allow himparently more with design than amuse- self to be entrapped, and suddenly plunged ment, as he progressively lessened the into the pool, which the bear no sooner distance that intervened between himself observed than he threw off all disguise, and his prey. The walrus, suspicious of rushed towards the spot, and followed him his advances, drew himself up, prepara- in an instant into the water, where, pertory to a precipitate retreat into the haps, he was disappointed of his meal.