THE MINK'S HUNTING GROUND 



their nets, build their house firmer, though 

 still leaving a chance for a circulation of 

 water, and fall asleep. They will awaken 

 to glide heavenward out of the swirl of 

 the current, veritable white angels with 

 downy wings which they will spread and 

 on which they will soar away to a new 

 world which is as different from that in 

 which they bound themselves in logs or 

 granite to escape their enemies as is the 

 old-time orthodox heaven from the world 

 in which the preachers of it lived. 



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