LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS[ At that instant the bear came to life . . . . Frontispiece ][ I plunged downward, struggling frantically ][ I sat down by the fiddler and dozed ][ I glimpsed his flaming eyes and wide-open, fang-filled mouth ][ Sheep and rock dropped straight toward me ][ Never before had the ring of an ax echoed in Silent Valley ][ "See all fools ain't dead yit," he observed ][ The memory of that race for life is still vividly terrifying ][ Every fall I watched Mr. and Mrs. Peg at their repairs ][ They turned tail and came racing back, straight toward me ][ Out of the dust of years, we dug the history of a buried past ]