CHAPTER XXII 



CRAY HUNTS FOR TROUBLE 



OISTEROUS, strong, and 

 merry was Brownhead, the 

 very son of his father. 

 Eager to do and ready to 

 go; and yet quick to hear 

 when the warning came, "Quare" or the 

 home call, "Chik, chik." Well-fleshed 

 was he and deeply fur -clad, although it was 

 scarcely mid-May, and his tail already was 

 past the switch stage and was frilling out 

 with the silver frill of his best kin. Frolic- 

 some, merry, and shy, very shy was Nyek- 

 nyek. In some speech she would have 

 been styled a ''mammy pet." Happy 

 with mother, playing with her brothers, 

 but ever ready to go to mother. Slight 



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