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Animal Heroes
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Ernest Thompson Seton
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Again
that
night,
when
the
fever
left
him
weak
and
dozing,
Thor
was
awakened
by
a
noise
in
the
room,
a
sound
of
crunching
bones.
He
looked
around
to
see
dimly
outlined
against
the
little
window,
the
form
of
a
large
animal
on
the
table.
Thor
shouted;
he
tried
to
hurl
his
boot
at
the
intruder.
It
leaped
lightly
to
the
ground
and
passed
out
of
the
hole,
again
wide
open.
It
was
no
dream
this
time,
he
knew,
and
the
women
knew
it,
too;
not
only
had
they
heard
the
creature,
but
the
Chicken,
the
last
of
their
food,
was
wholly
gone.
Poor
Thor
barely
left
his
couch
that
day.
It
needed
all
the
querulous
complaints
of
the
sick
women
to
drive
him
forth.
Down
by
the
spring
he
found
a
few
berries
and
divided
them
with
the
others.
He
made
his
usual
preparations
for
the
chills
and
the
thirst,
but
he
added
this--by
the
side
of
his
couch
he
put
an
old
fish-spear--the
only
weapon
he
could
find,
now
the
gun
was
useless--a
pine-root
candle
and
some
matches.
He
knew
the
Beast
was
coming
back
again--was
coming
hungry.
It
would
find
no
food;
what
more
natural,
he
thought,
than
take
the
living
prey
lying
there
so
helpless?
And
a
vision
came
of
the
limp
brown
form
of
the
little
Fawn,
borne
off
in
those
same
cruel
jaws.
Once
again
he
barricaded
the
hole
with
firewood,
and
the
night
passed
as
usual,
but
without
any
fierce
visitor.
Their
food
that
day
was
flour
and
water,
and
to
cook
it
Thor
was
forced
to
use
some
of
his
barricade.
Loo
attempted
some
feeble
joke,
guessed
she
was
light
enough
to
fly
now
and
tried
to
rise,
but
she
got
no
farther
than
the
edge
of
the
bunk.
The
same
preparations
were
made,
and
the
night
wore
on,
but
early
in
the
morning,
Thor
was
again
awakened
rudely
by
the
sound
of
lapping
water
by
his
bed,
and
there,
as
before,
were
the
glowing
eyeballs,
the
great
head,
the
gray
form
relieved
by
the
dim
light
from
the
dawning
window.
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