Western field . hat wereabroad that day and night that the trail wasclosed at one of its ends, else they might bychance have drifted down upon the roundedform watching, watching there beside thedead h© had brought to their sudden end. At last even her sorrow became less; in-deed, it may be that the great blessing offorgetfulness is given to the four-foots inlarger portion than to men; at last, one at atime, slowly and sadly as any mother couldhave done, she brought the bodies of heryoung to lay beside those of the , leaving the wind and th© waters tomercifully bear away all traces
Western field . hat wereabroad that day and night that the trail wasclosed at one of its ends, else they might bychance have drifted down upon the roundedform watching, watching there beside thedead h© had brought to their sudden end. At last even her sorrow became less; in-deed, it may be that the great blessing offorgetfulness is given to the four-foots inlarger portion than to men; at last, one at atime, slowly and sadly as any mother couldhave done, she brought the bodies of heryoung to lay beside those of the , leaving the wind and th© waters tomercifully bear away all traces of thetragedy, the two, moving together as theyhad come in from the flat below on thatawful morning, turned their feet to th© val-ley below. Afar on the other side of the gorge, wellhid in the deep crevice of a rocky ledge, fivetiny bodies, their eyes as yet unopened,one by one turned over in their last mercifulsleep. The reign of the weasel family inthat canon was forever done. THE PACIFIC COAST MAGAZINE 209. SPRING.
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