Hunter Little Hiawatha (8)

Hunter Little Hiawatha (8)

  And now all the forest animals were alerted that their new friend was in danger.

  The beavers beat out a message with their flat tails on a hollow log.

  Three raccons scampered up a tree, grabbed a long vine, and waited till Hiawatha ran past.

  Then they stretched the vine across the path and tripped the bear who was chasing him.

  The beavers gnawed down a tree and made a log boat to ferry Hiawatha across the river.

  But the bear wasn't far behind him, and she made a great dive onto one end of the log.

  Up flew Hiawatha into the air.
  He grabbed onto a branch of a tree and continued climbing up, up, up, for all he was worth.

  But the bear clambered out of the water, and she quickly started up a tree after Hiawatha.

  In no time the three beavers followed, and they went to work busily gnawing at the tree trunk.

  Just as the bear was about to grab Hiawatha at the very top of the tree, the tree began to sway and fall with Hiawatha and the bear clinging to it for dear life.

  A family of opossums in the nearby trees caught Jiawatha in midair.

  Hanging by their tails from the branches, they passed the little Indian from one to another, swinging him through the air safely away from the bear who had fallen to the ground. 

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