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Animal Heroes
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Ernest Thompson Seton
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Two
weeks
went
by.
The
Kittens
romped
much
among
the
boxes
during
their
mother's
absence.
The
Rabbit
could
not
get
out
of
the
box.
Jap
Malee,
seeing
the
Kittens
about
the
back
yard,
told
the
negro
to
shoot
them.
This
he
was
doing
one
morning
with
a
22-calibre
rifle.
He
had
shot
one
after
another
and
seen
them
drop
from
sight
into
the
crannies
of
the
lumber-pile,
when
the
old
Cat
came
running
along
the
wall
from
the
dock,
carrying
a
small
Wharf
Rat.
He
had
been
ready
to
shoot
her,
too,
but
the
sight
of
that
Rat
changed
his
plans:
a
rat-catching
Cat
was
worthy
to
live.
It
happened
to
be
the
very
first
one
she
had
ever
caught,
but
it
saved
her
life.
She
threaded
the
lumber-maze
to
the
cracker-box
and
was
probably
puzzled
to
find
that
there
were
no
Kittens
to
come
at
her
call,
and
the
Rabbit
would
not
partake
of
the
Rat.
Pussy
curled
up
to
nurse
the
Rabbit,
but
she
called
from
time
to
time
to
summon
the
Kittens.
Guided
by
that
call,
the
negro
crawled
quietly
to
the
place,
and
peering
down
into
the
cracker-box,
saw,
to
his
intense
surprise,
that
it
contained
the
old
Cat,
a
live
Rabbit,
and
a
dead
Rat.
The
mother
Cat
laid
back
her
ears
and
snarled.
The
negro
withdrew,
but
a
minute
later
a
board
was
dropped
on
the
opening
of
the
cracker-box,
and
the
den
with
its
tenants,
dead
and
alive,
was
lifted
into
the
bird-cellar.
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