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Animal Heroes
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Ernest Thompson Seton
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Arnaux
returned
from
Boston
one
day
to
find
that
the
Big
Blue,
while
he
retained
his
own
Available
Lady
in
the
corner-box,
had
also
annexed
the
box
and
wife
that
belonged
to
himself,
and
a
desperate
battle
followed.
The
only
spectators
were
the
two
wives,
but
they
maintained
an
indifferent
aloofness.
Arnaux
fought
with
his
famous
wings,
but
they
were
none
the
better
weapons
because
they
now
bore
twenty
records.
His
beak
and
feet
were
small,
as
became
his
blood,
and
his
stout
little
heart
could
not
make
up
for
his
lack
of
weight.
The
battle
went
against
him.
His
wife
sat
unconcernedly
in
the
nest,
as
though
it
were
not
her
affair,
and
Arnaux
might
have
been
killed
but
for
the
timely
arrival
of
Billy.
He
was
angry
enough
to
wring
the
Blue
bird's
neck,
but
the
bully
escaped
from
the
loft
in
time.
Billy
took
tender
care
of
Arnaux
for
a
few
days.
At
the
end
of
a
week
he
was
well
again,
and
in
ten
days
he
was
once
more
on
the
road.
Meanwhile
he
had
evidently
forgiven
his
faithless
wife,
for,
without
any
apparent
feeling,
he
took
up
his
nesting
as
before.
That
month
he
made
two
new
records.
He
brought
a
message
ten
miles
in
eight
minutes,
and
he
came
from
Boston
in
four
hours.
Every
moment
of
the
way
he
had
been
impelled
by
the
master-passion
of
home-love.
But
it
was
a
poor
home-coming
if
his
wife
figured
at
all
in
his
thoughts,
for
he
found
her
again
flirting
with
the
Big
Blue
cock.
Tired
as
he
was,
the
duel
was
renewed,
and
again
would
have
been
to
a
finish
but
for
Billy's
interference.
He
separated
the
fighters,
then
shut
the
Blue
cock
up
in
a
coop,
determined
to
get
rid
of
him
in
some
way.
Meanwhile
the
"Any
Age
Sweepstakes"
handicap
from
Chicago
to
New
York
was
on,
a
race
of
nine
hundred
miles.
Arnaux
had
been
entered
six
months
before.
His
forfeit-money
was
up,
and
notwithstanding
his
domestic
complications,
his
friends
felt
that
he
must
not
fail
to
appear.
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