a raw spring day ; snow still lingered in shady 

 spots. But here, backed against the farther 

 wall of the cavity, were two young owls, scarcely 



"Wrapped up like little Eskimos." 



a week old, wrapped up like little Eskimos 

 tiny bundles of down that the whitest-toothed 

 frost could never bite through. 



Very green babies of all kinds are queer, un- 

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