. Bannertail; the story of a gray squirrel . CHAPTER XIX THE MOVING OF THE YOUNG [T was very early in the morn-ing, soon after sunrise, thatthey took the hazard ofmoving the young. Silver-gray had fed the babies andlooked out and about, and had come backand looked again. Then, picking up thenearest by the scruff of its neck, she roseto the doorway. Now a great racketsounded in the woods. Silvergray backedin again and down, dropped the youngone, then put her head out. The noiseincreased, the trampling of heavy backed till only her nose was out, andwatched. Soon there came in view huge[
. Bannertail; the story of a gray squirrel . CHAPTER XIX THE MOVING OF THE YOUNG [T was very early in the morn-ing, soon after sunrise, thatthey took the hazard ofmoving the young. Silver-gray had fed the babies andlooked out and about, and had come backand looked again. Then, picking up thenearest by the scruff of its neck, she roseto the doorway. Now a great racketsounded in the woods. Silvergray backedin again and down, dropped the youngone, then put her head out. The noiseincreased, the trampling of heavy backed till only her nose was out, andwatched. Soon there came in view huge[127]. Bannertail red-and-white creatures with horns. Shehad often seen them, and held themharmless, but why were they moving sofast? There were other noises coming,much smaller, indeed, but oh, how muchmore dangerous were the two that fol-lowed and drove the herd !—a tow-toppedboy and a yellow-coated dog. At warwith all the world of harmless wood-folk,these two would leave a trail of slaugh-tered bodies in their wake, if only theirweapons were as deadly as their Silvergray sank back and brooded overthe nursery, varying her loving mother-ing with violent scratching of a hind foot,or sudden pounce to capture with herteeth some shiny, tiny creeping thingamong the bed stuff or on the young onesfluffy skins. The sun was up above the trees. TheBluej ay sang * Too - root - el - too - root -el,which means, all clear. And the glad[128] The Story of a Graysquirrel ^^^■f:!^/^^ Red Singing-Hawk was wheeling in great E?^^*^rhythmic swoops to the sound of his (^own wild note, Kyo-kyo-kyoooo
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