Just then Nip and Tup came sliding along behind them. They
couldn't stop, so there they all were in a heap together, with
the dogs on top!

Menie rolled over and sat up in the snow. He was holding on to
the end of his nose. "Iyi, iyi!" he howled, "I bumped my nose on
a piece of ice!"

Monnie sat up in the snow, too. She pointed her fur mitten at
Menie's nose and laughed. "Don't you know you haven't much nose?"
she said. "You ought to be more careful of it!"

Koko kicked his feet in the air and laughed at Menie, and the
little dogs barked. Menie thought he'd better laugh, too. He had
just let go of his nose to begin when all of a sudden the little
dogs stopped barking and stood very still!

Their hair stood up on their necks and they began to growl!

"Hark, the dogs see something," said Menie.

Monnie and Koko stopped laughing and listened. They could not
hear anything. They could not see anything. Still Nip and Tup
growled. The twins and Koko. were children of brave hunters, so,
although they were scared, they crept very quietly to the side of
the Big Rock and peeped over.

Just that minute there was a dreadful growl! "Woof!" It was very
loud, and very near, and down on the beach a shadow was moving!
It was the shadow of a great white BEAR!