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Animal Heroes
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Ernest Thompson Seton
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Yet
once
more
the
Boy
met
a
Lynx
in
the
woods.
Half
an
hour
after
seeing
the
lonely
Deer
he
crossed
the
long
ridge
that
lay
some
miles
north
of
the
shanty.
He
had
passed
the
glade
where
the
great
basswood
lay
when
a
creature
like
a
big
bob-tailed
Kitten
appeared
and
looked
innocently
at
him.
His
gun
went
up,
as
usual,
but
the
Kitten
merely
cocked
its
head
on
one
side
and
fearlessly
surveyed
him.
Then
a
second
one
that
he
had
not
noticed
before
began
to
play
with
the
first,
pawing
at
its
tail
and
inviting
its
brother
to
tussle.
Thor's
first
thought
to
shoot
was
stayed
as
he
watched
their
gambols,
but
the
remembrance
of
his
feud
with
their
race
came
back.
He
had
almost
raised
the
gun
when
a
fierce
rumble
close
at
hand
gave
him
a
start,
and
there,
not
ten
feet
from
him,
stood
the
old
one,
looking
big
and
fierce
as
a
Tigress.
It
was
surely
folly
to
shoot
at
the
young
ones
now.
The
boy
nervously
dropped
some
buckshot
on
the
charge
while
the
snarling
growl
rose
and
fell,
but
before
he
was
ready
to
shoot
at
her
the
old
one
had
picked
up
something
that
was
by
her
feet;
the
boy
got
a
glimpse
of
rich
brown
with
white
spots--the
limp
form
of
a
newly
killed
Fawn.
Then
she
passed
out
of
sight.
The
Kittens
followed,
and
he
saw
her
no
more
until
the
time
when,
life
against
life,
they
were
weighed
in
the
balance
together.
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