or eight feet in air. Yan stood fas- 

 cinated by the strange play of the 

 light-limbed, gray-furred creatures* 

 There was no haste or alarm in 

 their movements; he would watch 

 them until they began to run away 

 till they should take fright and begin 

 the labored straining, the vast ath- 

 letic bounds, he had heard of. And it 

 was only on noting that they were 

 rapidly fading into the distance that 

 he realized that now they were run- 

 ning away, already were flying for 

 safety. 



Higher and higher they rose each 

 time ; gracefully their bodies swayed 

 inward as they curved along some 

 bold ridge, or for a long space the 



buff- white scutcheons that they bore 

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