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1Author:  Garshine, Mikhailovich Vsevolod, 1855-1888Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Gipsy's Bear — A Story  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: IN the steppe the town of Bielsk nestles on the river Rokhla. In September of 1857 the town was in a state of unwonted excitement. The Government's order for the killing of the bears was to be executed. The unhappy gipsies had journeyed to Bielsk from four districts with all their household effects, their horses and their bears. More than a hundred of these awkward beasts, ranging from tiny cubs to huge "old men" whose coats had become whitish-gray with age, had collected on the town common. The gipsies had been given five years' grace from the publication of the order prohibiting performing bears, and this period had expired. They were now to appear at specified places and themselves destroy their supporters.
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