THE NIGHT-HEKON. 
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appear too ; and at the end of a few days, 
scarcely one of them was left. 
The farmer's wife was in great distress, and 
thought the fox or the weasel must have been 
in the roost. But one morning she got up 
before it was light, and went to look. To 
her surprise, she found the enemy was no fox, 
but their old friend the owl ; who, at that 
moment, was very ungratefully feasting on 
one of her hens. 
Th^ owl seemed to know he was committing 
a crime, and tried to escape to the hole where 
he had been hiding. But he was soon dis- 
lodged, and killed ; and his hole was found full 
of feathers and other remains of the farmer's 
poultry-yard. 
CHAPTEK X. 
THE NIGHT-HEEON. 
The cedar swamp is different from all the 
other forests I have described ; and yet it is 
included among the great forests of North 
America. 
