. Wood folk at school. MQUENAWIS the Mighty is ^^^lord of the woodlands. None H^Wwlother among the wood folk is *-Chalf so great as he; none has senses so keento detect a danger, nor powers so terrible todefend himself against it So he fears nothing,moving through the big woods like a master; andwhen you see him for the first time in the wilder-ness pushing his stately, silent way among the gianttrees, or plunging like a great engine through under-brush and over windfalls, his nose up to try the wind,his broad antlers far back on his mighty shoulders,while the dead tree that opposes him cracks
. Wood folk at school. MQUENAWIS the Mighty is ^^^lord of the woodlands. None H^Wwlother among the wood folk is *-Chalf so great as he; none has senses so keento detect a danger, nor powers so terrible todefend himself against it So he fears nothing,moving through the big woods like a master; andwhen you see him for the first time in the wilder-ness pushing his stately, silent way among the gianttrees, or plunging like a great engine through under-brush and over windfalls, his nose up to try the wind,his broad antlers far back on his mighty shoulders,while the dead tree that opposes him cracks and crashes 5 152 Wood Folk at School down before his rush, and the alders beat a rattling,snapping tattoo on his branching horns,— when yousee him thus, something within you rises up, likea soldier at salute, and says: Milord the Moose!And though the rifle is in your hand, its deadly muzzlenever rises from the trail. That great head with its massive crown is too bigfor any house. Hung stupidly on a wall, in a room
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