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It was all he took from her. Other attributes 

 of a leader he had in full measure. This, the 

 coveted Pied Piper of the bush, made him a guide 

 indeed I 



Setting it on a throbbing point of his velvety 

 antlers, he walked forward proudly, throwing up 

 his splendid head. 



Tink/ Tonkf Tink f Tonk ! 



One by one the animals fell into line, and 

 followed the sound they could not resist. It led 

 to safety — to wide, green tracts enfiladed on all 

 sides by rivers and lagoons, over which no forest- 

 fires had ever passed. 



There the bull left them leaderless, streaking off 

 silently as his charges slept, since no king of the 

 wild could bear to be tied down by the inactivities 

 and petty smallnesses of domestic beasts such as 

 these. 



He left them, but took the prerogative of a 

 leader with him. Down the rides of the forest his 

 swift rush carried him, through deep brushwood 

 and barring fallen trees. And faint on the night 

 wind sounded the deep-toned bell. 



Tink! Tonk! Tink! Tonk! 



This the moose handed down to all the moose 



