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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 



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