CHAPTER XIX 



THE MOVING OF THE YOUNG 



[T was very early in the morn- 

 ing, soon after sunrise, that 

 they took the hazard of 

 moving the young. Silver- 

 gray had fed the babies and 

 looked out and about, and had come back 

 and looked again. Then, picking up the 

 nearest by the scruff of its neck, she rose 

 to the doorway. Now a great racket 

 sounded in the woods. Silvergray backed 

 in again and down, dropped the young 

 one, then put her head out. The noise 

 increased, the trampling of heavy feet. 

 She backed till only her nose was out, and 

 watched. Soon there came in view huge 



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