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It was a love-song .../.. . . 156 



But the pair kept on together, chatting brightly 161 

 In a dead yellow birch .... . . . 163 



So close I can look directly into it . . . . . 164 



Uncle Jethro limbered his stiffened knees and 



went chuckling down the bank .... 170 

 The big moon was rising over the meadows . . 173 

 Section of muskrat's house . . . . . 174 

 The snow has drifted over their house till only a 



tiny mound appears ...... 177 



They rubbed noses 179 



Two little brown creatures washing calamus . 180 

 She melted away among the dark pines like a 



shadow 186 



She called me every wicked thing that she could 



think of . .189 



It was one of those cathedral-like clumps . . 191 



They were watching me 192 



A triumph of love and duty over fear . . . 199 

 He wants to know where I am and what I am about 203 

 In the agony of death ...... 205 



Calamity is hot on his track 212 



Bunny, meantime, is watching just inside the 

 next brier-patch 215 



The squat is a cold place 217 



The limp, lifeless one hanging over the neck of 

 that fox 220 



His drop is swift and certain 225 



Seven young ones in the nest 231 



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