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by more enlightened men than this Swiss guide. 

 After the death of the mother goat 



A FAINT BABY CRY 



attracted the hunter's attention to a small white 

 object on the rocks of the mountain top. This was 

 the poor little orphan Nannie and when the big 

 man with the picturesque costume, and the terrible 

 gun, picked up the baby goat, the kid took the 

 man's fingers stained with its own mother's blood, 

 in its mouth and tried vainly to secure the life-giv- 

 ing nourishment expected when nursing. 



