THREATENING as the northern 

 winter was, with its stern order to the 

 birds to depart, and to the beasts to put on 

 their thick furs, and to the little folk of the 

 snow to hide themselves in white coats, and 

 to all living things to watch well the ways 

 that they took, it could bring no terror to ( 

 Wayeeses and her powerful young cubs. 

 The gladness of life was upon them, with 

 none of its pains or anxieties or fears, as 

 we know them ; and they rolled and tum- 

 bled about in the first deep snow with the / 

 abandon of young foxes, filled with wonder"' 



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