Bannertail 



silvery shadow up the familiar trunk to 

 find himself facing the very Redsquirrel 

 whose range he once had entered and 

 from whom he, Bannertail, had fled. 

 But what a change of situation and of 

 heart ! Redhead scoffed and shook his 

 flaming tail. He shrieked his "skit, skit" 

 and stood prepared to fight. Did Ban- 

 nertail hold back — he, Bannertail, that 

 formerly had declined the combat with 

 this very rogue? Not for an instant. 

 ill'/ There was new-engendered power within 

 ^ ; compelling him. He sprang on the Red 

 ^ f bandit with all his vigor and drove his 

 J / teeth in deep. The Redhead was a 

 V ,f ^ — , .) / fighter, too. He clinched and bit. They 

 \A '-^\^ y / j clung, wrestled and stabbed, then, losing 

 'jf~""v -"C hold of the tree, went hurling to the 



' ; sr.c- earth below. In air they flung apart, 

 ''•••— j' but landing unhurt they clinched again 



,."v^g= on the ground; then the Redhead, bleed- 



/„---''' ing from many little wounds, and over- 



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