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Animal Heroes
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Ernest Thompson Seton
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V
Ninette
was
a
desert-born
beauty
like
her
Indian
mother,
but
gray-eyed
like
her
Normandy
father,
a
sweet
girl
of
sixteen,
the
belle
of
her
set.
She
might
have
married
any
one
of
the
richest
and
steadiest
young
men
of
the
country,
but
of
course,
in
feminine
perversity
her
heart
was
set
on
that
ne'er-do-well,
Paul
des
Roches.
A
handsome
fellow,
a
good
dancer
and
a
fair
violinist,
Fiddler
Paul
was
in
demand
at
all
festivities,
but
he
was
a
shiftless
drunkard
and
it
was
even
whispered
that
he
had
a
wife
already
in
Lower
Canada.
Renaud
very
properly
dismissed
him
when
he
came
to
urge
his
suit,
but
dismissed
him
in
vain.
Ninette,
obedient
in
all
else,
would
not
give
up
her
lover.
The
very
day
after
her
father
had
ordered
him
away
she
promised
to
meet
him
in
the
woods
just
across
the
river.
It
was
easy
to
arrange
this,
for
she
was
a
good
Catholic,
and
across
the
ice
to
the
church
was
shorter
than
going
around
by
the
bridge.
As
she
went
through
the
snowy
wood
to
the
tryst
she
noticed
that
a
large
gray
Dog
was
following.
It
seemed
quite
friendly,
and
the
child
(for
she
was
still
that)
had
no
fear,
but
when
she
came
to
the
place
where
Paul
was
waiting,
the
gray
Dog
went
forward
rumbling
in
its
chest.
Paul
gave
one
look,
knew
it
for
a
huge
Wolf,
then
fled
like
the
coward
he
was.
He
afterward
said
he
ran
for
his
gun.
He
must
have
forgotten
where
it
was,
as
he
climbed
the
nearest
tree
to
find
it.
Meanwhile
Ninette
ran
home
across
the
ice
to
tell
Paul's
friends
of
his
danger.
Not
finding
any
firearms
up
the
tree,
the
valiant
lover
made
a
spear
by
fastening
his
knife
to
a
branch
and
succeeded
in
giving
Garou
a
painful
wound
on
the
head.
The
savage,
creature
growled
horribly
but
thenceforth
kept
at
a
safe
distance,
though
plainly
showing
his
intention
to
wait
till
the
man
came
down.
But
the
approach
of
a
band
of
rescuers
changed
his
mind,
and
he
went
away.
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