Kragf, the Kootenay Ram 



them all stand like stocks. Of course she was 

 only doing what they all did, but happened to 

 do it better than they. The Wise One, how- 

 ever, was rarely far behind her, and sometimes 

 ahead in seeing things, and had the advantage 

 of knowing the country ; but they were so nearly 

 matched in gifts that very soon the Wise One 

 felt that in the Spikerdoe she had a dangerous 

 rival for the leadership. 



The band was not without its cranks. There 

 was a young Ewe that had a lazy fashion of 

 feeding on her front " knees." The others did 

 not copy her methods ; they vaguely felt that 

 they were not good. The effect of this original 

 way of feeding was to bring a great callous pad 

 on each knee (in reality the wrist). Then those 

 growing pads and the improper use of her front 

 legs began to rob Miss Kneepads of her supple- 

 ,.^k ( \- •. ness. She could not spring quickly aside and 



•y^ 'i . ._. .^ ^iPir^gf Dac k as the others could. Ordinarily this does 



I v( n %- v 4\/ W/*' /■ - not matter much, but there are times when it is 



- jujK-- y ' J very needful. All animals that must save them- 



selves by flight have developed this trick of 

 zigzag bounding. It is the couching Hare's 

 best foil when sprung at by the Fox or the 



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