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who are Killers. &quot; Black Fox thus put the case 

 wisely to the others. 



&quot; Gr-a-a-h-wuh ! let me speak,&quot; cried Blue 

 Wolf. &quot; Pisew has done this thing. If any in 

 my Pack make a kill and I come to speak of it, 

 do I not know from their eyes that grow tired, 

 which it is ? &quot; 



Said the Lieutenant, Carcajou : &quot; I think you 

 are right, Rof; but you can t hang a Comrade 

 because he has weak eyes. No one has seen 

 Pisew make the kill. We must have a new law, 

 Your Majesty. That if again Kit-Beaver, or 

 Cub-Fox, or Babe-Wapoos, or Young-Anyone is 

 slain for eating, we shall all, sitting in Council, 

 decide who is to pay the penalty. I think that 

 will stop this murderous poaching.&quot; 



&quot; It will,&quot; whispered the Red Widow. &quot; Lynx 

 will never touch one of them again. He knows 

 what Carcajou means.&quot; 



&quot;That is a new law, then,&quot; cried the King. 

 &quot; If any of Umisk s children are killed by one of 

 us, sitting in Council we shall decide who is to 

 be executed for the crime.&quot; 



&quot; Please, Your Majesty,&quot; squeaked Rabbit, 

 &quot; I keep the Boundary Law, but others do not. 

 From Beaver s dam to the Pelican, straighter 

 than a Man s trail, are my three Run-ways. My 

 Cousin s family has three more ; and in the 



