B'ar

Missus B'ar, she come cavortin 'an' growlin 'along, and it did seem to me as though she'd have a chunk out o' me afore I could climb out o 'reach.

Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods Alice B. Emerson

There was Mister B'ar snoopin 'about the yard, and lookin' almost as big as one of the steers.

Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods Alice B. Emerson

So Watts's pa killed a shoat, an 'brung out a big jug o' corn whisky, an 'we-all et an' drunk all we could hold, an 'from then on' til whut time we come away from ther, they wusn't a man, outside a couple o 'revenoos, killed on B'ar Track.

The Gold Girl 1921

The first charm of the book is that it fascinates children with its frolicsome adventures of Brer Rabbit, Brer Tarrypin, Brer B'ar, Brer Fox and the wonderful Tar Baby; the second, that it combines in a remarkable way a primitive or universal with a local and intensely human interest.

Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909

"I'll tek 'long meh lawnce, an 'lawnce Mistah B'ar,"

The Book of American Negro Poetry James Weldon Johnson 1904

B'ar what killed your sheep on the upper pasture and in the sheep canon is the same.

Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

"What about the fifty-foot B'ar I saw wit 'mine own eyes, caramba?"

Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

"It's B'ar, all right," was the answer; and the dog, bounding high, went straight toward the foe.

Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

One day, as they watched him rolling head over heels in riotous glee, Kellyan remarked to his friend: "I'm afraid some one will happen on him an 'shoot him in the woods for a wild B'ar."

Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

"There's the B'ar we'll find in that; that's a bushy-tailed B'ar," and Bonamy joined in the laugh when he realized that the victim in the big trap was nothing but a little skunk.

Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac Ernest Thompson Seton 1903