LITTLE FOLKS THAT GNAW 



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lected one of the outgoing tracks at random and: 

 followed that. 



It led off the high ground to the swamp ice again, 

 and suddenly there was another track beside it, or, 

 rather, on it the track of a fox. As neither the 

 rabbit's step nor the fox's had lengthened into a 



The cottontail rabbit beneath a tent of swamp shrubbery 



