track, there were now so many fresh 

 ones, crossing and winding, that 

 he could not follow at all. So he 

 prowled along haphazard, until he 

 found two tracks so new that he 

 could easily trail them as before, 

 and he eagerly gave chase. As he 

 sneaked along watching the tracks 

 at his feet instead of the woods ahead, 

 he was startled by two big-eared, 

 grayish animals springing from a 

 little glade into which he had stum- 

 bled. They trotted to a bank fifty 

 yards away and then turned to gaze 

 at him. 



How they did seem to look with 

 their great earsl How they spell- 

 bound him by the soft gaze that he 

 felt rather than saw! He knew what 

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