. Lives of the hunted, containing a true account of the doings of five quadrupeds & three birds, and in elucidation of the same, over 200 drawings . alley was uncommonly good,rich, rank, and abundant, and the Lambsjust beginning to feed were revelling in thechoicest of pasture; but this was down amongthe timber, with all its furtive dangers. TheWise One, as well as the Spikerdoe, wanted toget back to their own safe led the way, and the rest, though unwilling,would have followed, but little Krinklehorn wastoo much engrossed with the rich food. Hewould not follow. His mother m
. Lives of the hunted, containing a true account of the doings of five quadrupeds & three birds, and in elucidation of the same, over 200 drawings . alley was uncommonly good,rich, rank, and abundant, and the Lambsjust beginning to feed were revelling in thechoicest of pasture; but this was down amongthe timber, with all its furtive dangers. TheWise One, as well as the Spikerdoe, wanted toget back to their own safe led the way, and the rest, though unwilling,would have followed, but little Krinklehorn wastoo much engrossed with the rich food. Hewould not follow. His mother missed him, andwhen he bleated she came back to him. Hedid not positively refuse to come, but he lin-gered so that he held his mother back and en-couraged the others to do the same. And whennight fell the band was still below timber-line,and went to sleep in the woods. A Mountain Lion does not make much noiseas he sneaks up after his prey; he goes like ashadow: and not a sound was made by the greathungry Lion of the Yak-in-i-kak until by chanceone little pebble touched by his velvet foot rolleddown the bank. It was a slight noise, but the ) 42. , c *-•- Krag, the Kootenay Ram Spikerdoe heard it, and blowing the long snoooof,she called little Nubbins, and, in spite of thedarkness, dashed up the cliff toward her safehome land. The others also leaped to theirfeet, but the Lion was among them. The WiseOne leaped up, with a sign to Krinklehorn tofollow. She also bounded toward safety—wassaved; but her Lamb, always wilful, thought hesaw a better way of escape, and finding himselfalone, he bleated, Mother; and she, forget-ting her own danger, dashed down again, andin a moment the Lion laid her low. AnotherSheep forged by, and another, in the hurry anduproar of flight. At each of these in turn theLion sprang, but each offset his pounce by asuccession of bewildering zigzag jumps, and soescaped, till, last of all, poor Kneepads madepast for the rocks, and when the Lion leapedshe faile
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