Redruff 



saved them during the lawful murder season, 

 and here it was that Cuddy, knowing their 

 feeding habits, laid a new trap. Under the 

 bank he sneaked and watched in ambush while 

 an accomplice went around the Sugar Loaf to 

 drive the birds. He came trampling through 

 the low thicket where Redruff and Graytail 

 were feeding, and long before the gunner w r as 

 dangerously near Redruff gave a low warning 

 ' rrr-rrr ' (danger) and walked quickly toward 

 *;he great pine in case they had to rise. 



Graytail was some distance up the hill, and 

 suddenly caught sight of a new foe close at 

 hand, the yellow cur, coming right on. Red- 

 ruff, much farther off, could not see him for the 

 bushes, and Graytail became greatly alarmed. 



' Ktoit, kwiV (Fly, fly), she cried, running 

 down the hill for a start. ' Kreet, k-r-r-r' 

 (This way, hide), cried the cooler Redruff, for 

 he saw that now the man with the gun was get- 

 ting in range. He gained the great trunk, and 

 behind it, as he paused a moment to call 

 earnestly to Graytail, 'This way, this way,' he 

 heard a slight noise under the bank before him 

 that betrayed the ambush, then there was a ter- 



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