. Wild animals I have known and 200 drawings [microform]. Animal behavior; Animaux. Rcdfuff low him with a gun, so when the snow deepest, and food scarcest, Cuddy hatched a new plot. Right across the feeding-ground, almost the only good one now in the Stormy Moon, he set a row of snares. A cottontail bbit, an old friend, cut several of these with h. sh: p teeth, but some remained, and Redruf ing a far-off speck that might turn out a oawk, trod right in one of them, and in an 'nstant was jerked into the air to dangle by one foot. Have the wild things no moral or legal rights ? What rig


. Wild animals I have known and 200 drawings [microform]. Animal behavior; Animaux. Rcdfuff low him with a gun, so when the snow deepest, and food scarcest, Cuddy hatched a new plot. Right across the feeding-ground, almost the only good one now in the Stormy Moon, he set a row of snares. A cottontail bbit, an old friend, cut several of these with h. sh: p teeth, but some remained, and Redruf ing a far-off speck that might turn out a oawk, trod right in one of them, and in an 'nstant was jerked into the air to dangle by one foot. Have the wild things no moral or legal rights ? What right has man to inflict such long and fearful agony on a fellow-creature, simply because that creature does not speak his lan- guage? All that day, with growing, racking pains, poor Redruff hung and beat his great, strong wings in helpless struggles to be free. All day, all night, with growing torture, until he only longed for death. But no one came. The morning broke, the day wore on, and still he hung there, slowly dying; his very strength a curse. The second night crawled slowly down, and when, in the dawdling hours of darkness, a great Horned Owl, drawn by the 957. Oan. [ STORMY^ JMOON. e-r5]. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946. New York : Grosset & Dunlap


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