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Animal Heroes
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Ernest Thompson Seton
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The
robber
spread
the
much-inscribed
wings,
read
record
after
record,
and
glancing
at
the
silver
badge--it
should
have
been
gold--he
read
his
name--Arnaux;
then
exclaimed:
"Arnaux!
Arnaux!
Oh,
I've
heard
of
you,
you
little
beauty,
and
it's
glad
I
am
to
trap
you."
He
snipped
the
message
from
his
tail,
unrolled
it,
and
read:
"Arnaux
left
Chicago
this
morning
at
4
A.M.,
scratched
in
the
Any
Age
Sweepstakes
for
New
York."
"Six
hundred
miles
in
twelve
hours!
By
the
powers,
that's
a
record-breaker."
And
the
pigeon-stealer
gently,
almost
reverently,
put
the
fluttering
Bird
safely
into
a
padded
cage.
"Well,"
he
added,
"I
know
it's
no
use
trying
to
make
you
stay,
but
I
can
breed
from
you
and
have
some
of
your
strain."
So
Arnaux
was
shut
up
in
a
large
and
comfortable
loft
with
several
other
prisoners.
The
man,
though
a
thief,
was
a
lover
of
Homers;
he
gave
his
captive
everything
that
could
insure
his
comfort
and
safety.
For
three
months
he
left
him
in
that
loft.
At
first
Arnaux
did
nothing
all
day
but
walk
up
and
down
the
wire
screen,
looking
high
and
low
for
means
of
escape;
but
in
the
fourth
month
he
seemed
to
have
abandoned
the
attempt,
and
the
watchful
jailer
began
the
second
part
of
his
scheme.
He
introduced
a
coy
young
lady
Pigeon.
But
it
did
not
seem
to
answer;
Arnaux
was
not
even
civil
to
her.
After
a
time
the
jailer
removed
the
female,
and
Arnaux
was
left
in
solitary
confinement
for
a
month.
Now
a
different
female
was
brought
in,
but
with
no
better
luck;
and
thus
it
went
on--for
a
year
different
charmers
were
introduced.
Arnaux
either
violently
repelled
them
or
was
scornfully
indifferent,
and
at
times
the
old
longing
to
get
away,
came
back
with
twofold
power,
so
that
he
darted
up
and
down
the
wire
front
or
dashed
with
all
his
force
against
it.
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