The secret trails . ^ ir^^:. Leaping upwards and striking downwards with his destroy-ing heels. COCK-CROW i6i one spur through his throat, the other throughhis lungs. As he fell he dragged his con-queror down with him, and one convulsive butblindly-clutching talon ripped away a strip offlesh and feathers from the victors was a moments flapping, a few delicatered feathers floated off upon the morning air,then the hawk lay quite still, and the red cock,stepping haughtily off the body of his foe,crowed long and shrill, three times, as if chal-lenging any other champions of the wildern
The secret trails . ^ ir^^:. Leaping upwards and striking downwards with his destroy-ing heels. COCK-CROW i6i one spur through his throat, the other throughhis lungs. As he fell he dragged his con-queror down with him, and one convulsive butblindly-clutching talon ripped away a strip offlesh and feathers from the victors was a moments flapping, a few delicatered feathers floated off upon the morning air,then the hawk lay quite still, and the red cock,stepping haughtily off the body of his foe,crowed long and shrill, three times, as if chal-lenging any other champions of the wildernessto come and dare a like fate. For a few minutes he stood waiting and lis-tening for an answer to his challenge. As noanswer came, he turned, without deigning toglance at his slain foe, and stalked off, steppingdaintily, up the old wood-road and into thedepths of the forest. To the raw, red gash inhis thigh he paid no heed whatever. Having no inkling of the fact that the wil-derness, silent and deserted though it seemed,wa
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