Bannertail 



red-and-white creatures with horns. She 

 had often seen them, and held them 

 harmless, but why were they moving so 

 fast? There were other noises coming, 

 much smaller, indeed, but oh, how much 

 more dangerous were the two that fol- 

 lowed and drove the herd ! — a tow-topped 

 boy and a yellow-coated dog. At war 

 with all the world of harmless wood-folk, 

 these two would leave a trail of slaugh- 

 tered bodies in their wake, if only their 

 weapons were as deadly as their wishes. 

 So Silvergray sank back and brooded over 

 the nursery, varying her loving mother- 

 ing with violent scratching of a hind foot, 

 or sudden pounce to capture with her 

 teeth some shiny, tiny creeping thing 

 among the bed stuff or on the young ones' 

 fluffy skins. 



The sun was up above the trees. The 

 Bluej ay sang ' ' Too - root - el - too - root -el,'* 

 which means, "all clear." And the glad 



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