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Animal Heroes
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Ernest Thompson Seton
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The
Slum
Kitten
waited
in
vain
for
her
mother.
The
morning
came
and
went.
She
became
very
hungry.
Toward
evening
a
deep-laid
instinct
drove
her
forth
to
seek
food.
She
slunk
out
of
the
old
box,
and
feeling
her
way
silently
among
the
rubbish,
she
smelt
everything
that
seemed
eatable,
but
without
finding
food.
At
length
she
reached
the
wooden
steps
leading
down
into
Jap
Malee's
bird-store
underground.
The
door
was
open
a
little.
She
wandered
into
a
world
of
rank
and
curious
smells
and
a
number
of
living
things
in
cages
all
about
her.
A
negro
was
sitting
idly
on
a
box
in
a
corner.
He
saw
the
little
stranger
enter
and
watched
it
curiously.
It
wandered
past
some
Rabbits.
They
paid
no
heed.
It
came
to
a
wide-barred
cage
in
which
was
a
Fox.
The
gentleman
with
the
bushy
tail
was
in
a
far
corner.
He
crouched
low;
his
eyes
glowed.
The
Kitten
wandered,
sniffing,
up
to
the
bars,
put
its
head
in,
sniffed
again,
then
made
toward
the
feed-pan,
to
be
seized
in
a
flash
by
the
crouching
Fox.
It
gave
a
frightened
"mew,"
but
a
single
shake
cut
that
short
and
would
have
ended
Kitty's
nine
lives
at
once,
had
not
the
negro
come
to
the
rescue.
He
had
no
weapon
and
could
not
get
into
the
cage,
but
he
spat
with
such
copious
vigor
in
the
Fox's
face
that
he
dropped
the
Kitten
and
returned
to
the
corner,
there
to
sit
blinking
his
eyes
in
sullen
fear.
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