CHAPTER IV 



THE NEW AND LONELY LIFE 



HE break was made com- 

 plete by the Red Horror, 

 and the going of the man- 

 people. Fences and build- 

 ings are good for some 

 things, but the tall timber of the distant 

 wooded hill was calling to him and though 

 he came back many a time to the garden 

 while there yet was fruit, and to the field 

 while the corn was standing, he was ever 

 more in the timber and less in the open. 

 Food there was in abundance now, for 

 it was early autumn; and who was to be 

 his guide in this: "What to eat, what to 

 let alone?" These two guides he had, 

 and they proved enough: instinct, the 



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