Brunie

Research for this article was supported by the Brunie Fund for New York Journalism.

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She and Brunie both recommend big drug stocks like Sanofi-Aventis and GlaxoSmithKline, and she'd also buy just about anything in the Dow 30, including Citigroup, General Electric, and Exxon Mobil.

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At the same moment that he dealt Brunie the blow, the hunter, with a deft movement, captured one of her cubs, and while Brunie's attention was taken up with the two remaining hunters her little one was carried off.

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Brunie knew perfectly well that the quickest way to kill a man was to aim all the blows at his head, and this she did with fearful effect.

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Each of the hunters held a hatchet in his hands ready to strike at her, but Brunie cared not for hatchets, or anything else, where her little ones were concerned, and, going straight up to one of the hunters, she reared up on her hind feet, and with a terrific blow with one of her fore paws, which she aimed direct at the hunter's head, she killed him on the spot.

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And the little bears listened to it all, and thought what a nice little mother-bear Brunie was, and what an extremely important family they belonged to.

Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories Ellen Velvin

But the bellowing and lowing of the cattle, and the growling and grumbling of the bear, had awakened the hunter, and, while Brunie was killing off his cattle, he called up his farm hands, and was already on the spot with guns, and quite close to her before she had any idea of it.

Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories Ellen Velvin

Poor Brunie was, by this time, weak from loss of blood, and sat down, doing her best to lick her wound and comfort her remaining cubs.

Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories Ellen Velvin

Some bears make a big hillock of moss, and crawl into the middle of it, but Brunie preferred a cave; it was warmer, more private, and not so likely to be discovered, for she was looking forward to an important domestic event, and wished for privacy.

Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories Ellen Velvin

But, as the months went on, Brunie began to get very thin and very touchy and irritable, and by the time June came she was so cross and savage that even her little ones were sometimes afraid of her.

Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories Ellen Velvin