and bird call and blossoming bluebell and 



shining star alike, tumbled ashore and went 



hurrying up the brook, splashing through 



"'}£ J wvnxz the s h a n ows> darting like kingfishers over 



the points, and jumping like wild goats from 

 rock to rock. In an hour they were far up the 

 mountain, lying side by side on a great flat 

 rock, looking across a deep impassable valley 

 and over two rounded hilltops, where the scrub 

 spruces looked like pins on a cushion, to the 

 bare, rugged hillside where Megaleep stood 

 out like a watchman against the blue sky. 



"Does he see us, little brother?" whis- 

 pered Mooka, quivering with excitement and 

 panting from the rapid climb. 



"See us? sartin, little sister; but that only 

 make him want peek urn some more," said 

 the little hunter. And raised carelessly on 

 his elbows he was telling Mooka how Mega- 

 leep the caribou trusted only his nose, and 

 how he watched and played peekaboo with 

 anything which he could not smell, and how 

 in a snowstorm — 



Noel was off now like a brook, babbling 

 a deal of caribou lore which he had learned 



