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Animal Heroes
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Ernest Thompson Seton
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IV
THE
TERROR
OF
THE
WOODS
Six
weeks
had
passed
in
daily
routine
when
one
day
the
young
giant
seemed
unusually
quiet
as
he
went
about.
His
handsome
face
was
very
sober
and
he
sang
not
at
all
that
morning.
He
and
Thor
slept
on
a
hay-bunk
in
one
corner
of
the
main
room,
and
that
night
the
Boy
awakened
more
than
once
to
hear
his
companion
groaning
and
tossing
in
his
sleep.
Corney
arose
as
usual
in
the
morning
and
fed
the
horses,
but
lay
down
again
while
the
sisters
got
breakfast.
He
roused
himself
by
an
effort
and
went
back
to
work,
but
came
home
early.
He
was
trembling
from
head
to
foot.
It
was
hot
summer
weather,
but
he
could
not
be
kept
warm.
After
several
hours
a
reaction
set
in
and
Corney
was
in
a
high
fever.
The
family
knew
well
now
that
he
had
the
dreaded
chills
and
fever
of
the
backwoods.
Margat
went
out
and
gathered
a
lapful
of
pipsissewa
to
make
tea,
of
which
Corney
was
encouraged
to
drink
copiously.
But
in
spite
of
all
their
herbs
and
nursing
the
young
man
got
worse.
At
the
end
of
ten
days
he
was
greatly
reduced
in
flesh
and
incapable
of
work,
so
on
one
of
the
"well
days"
that
are
usual
in
the
course
of
the
disease
he
said:
"Say,
gurruls,
I
can't
stand
it
no
longer.
Guess
I
better
go
home.
I'm
well
enough
to
drive
to-day,
for
a
while
anyway;
if
I'm
took
down
I'll
lay
in
the
wagon,
and
the
horses
will
fetch
me
home.
Mother'll
have
me
all
right
in
a
week
or
so.
If
you
run
out
of
grub
before
I
come
back
take
the
canoe
to
Ellerton's."
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