CHAPTER XXVII 



THE DREGS OF THE CUP 



}UT next morning ! Why 

 should it be told? It was 

 as before, but far worse. So 

 high as the peak is above 

 the plain, so far is the plain 

 below the peak. A crushed and broken 

 Bannertail it was that lay enfeebled in 

 the nest next day when the family went 

 forth to feed and frolic. 



Not that day did he go out, or wish to 

 go. Sick unto death was he; so sick he 

 did not care. The rest let him alone. 

 They did not understand, and there was 

 something about him which made them 

 keep away. Next day he crawled forth 

 slowly and drank at the spring. That 



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