. Two little savages : being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned. With over three hundred drawings . d labour inthe garden; so Yan was alone in camp. He wentaround the various mud albums, but discoverednothing new, except the fact that tracks were gettingmore numerous. There were small Skunk andMink tracks with the large ones now. As he cameby the brush fence at the end of the blazed trail hesaw a dainty little Yellow Warbler feeding a greatlubberly young Cow-bird that, evidently, it hadbrought up. He had often heard that the Cow-birdhabitually plays Cuckoo an
. Two little savages : being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned. With over three hundred drawings . d labour inthe garden; so Yan was alone in camp. He wentaround the various mud albums, but discoverednothing new, except the fact that tracks were gettingmore numerous. There were small Skunk andMink tracks with the large ones now. As he cameby the brush fence at the end of the blazed trail hesaw a dainty little Yellow Warbler feeding a greatlubberly young Cow-bird that, evidently, it hadbrought up. He had often heard that the Cow-birdhabitually plays Cuckoo and leaves its egg inthe nest of another bird, but this was the first timehe had actually seen anything of it with his owneyes. As he watched the awkward mud-colouredCow-bird nutter its ungrown wings and beg helpfrom the brilliant little Warbler, less than half itssize, he wondered whether the fond mother reallywas fooled into thinking it her own young, or whethershe did it simply out of compassion for the now turned down creek to the lower mudalbum, and was puzzled by a new track like this. 327 \ Two Little Savages v. He sketched it, but before the drawing was doneit dawned on him that this must be the track of ayoung Mud-tui lie. He also saw a lot of very familiartracks, not a few being those of the common Cst.,and he wondered why they should be about so muchand yet so rarely seen. Of course the animals werechiefly nocturnal, but the boys were partly so,and always on the ground now, so that explana-tion was not satisfactory. He lay down on hisbreast at the edge of the brook, which had here cutin a channel with steep clay walls six feet high andtwenty feet apart. The stream was very small now—a mere thread of water zigzagging over the levelmuddy floor of the canon, as Yan loved to callit. A broad, muddy margin at each side of thewater made a fine place of record for the travellingFour-foots, and tracks new and old were there inabundance. The herbage on the bank wa
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